Since a couple of months my MacBook Pro does not automatically connect with my Time Capsule anymore. Even if I store the password in the keychain, it keeps on asking me for the password if I try to connect to the Time Capsule. Pretty annoying... Does anyone have a solution for this? Both my MacBook and Time Capsule are fully updated.
AirPort Time Capsule 802.11ac, macOS High Sierra (10.13.6)
Would be grateful to anyone who has discovered how to make the auto-password-authentication automation for time capsule hard drive access work!
I use the following Apple Script to 'automatically' mount my TC at login for Time Machine:
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-- AppleScript to detect & mount TC's HDD for Time Machine
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-- Tesserax, Oct 2016
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try
mount volume "afp://<TC's Base Station Name>.local/Data" as user name "<use can enter anything here>" with password "<TC's Disk PW> "
end try
Then I would Save As this script as an Application. Finally, I would add this application as a Login Item for my user account.
I never have to re-enter the TC's password to access the Data partition for Time Machine.
When I went to compile the script, it told me it expected an end of line, but found an identifier, and it highlighted my quoted password (at the end of the command line).
And not to beat a dead horse, but if an Apple user has to resort to MS instructional materials, you know the user friendliness of the thing has gone way off the rails. 😉
Potentially, your AirPort Keychain entries may be corrupted. I would suggest that you use the Keychain Access app to locate and delete them if you haven't already to see if this resolves the issue. If not, there are a few other things we could try.
The three AirPort password Kinds that can be stored in the login and/or iCloud (if you sync the Keychain to iCloud) Keychain categories are:
It's the last one that you will want to delete from the Keychain.
I am having the same problem. I have a 4th gen time capsule, with an external USB drive. Every time I move to access the thing in Finder, I am challenged for the device password, which I keep entering, and I keep checking the box to allow the password to be remembered in keychain. It never does. The next time I want to access the drive - same thing - manual password entry.
Not the end of the world, but the lack of automation is irritating, and not in line with the "It Just Works" mantra of Apple.
Tesserax, I am not certain why deleting the network password in keychain would help this. I did delete and recreate the device passwords in keychain, but without benefit. The network password allows your machine to auto-remember the WAN password in your environment - it should not have anything to do with disk level access on the time capsule.
Would be grateful to anyone who has discovered how to make the auto-password-authentication automation for time capsule hard drive access work!
Oh....I should mention that my system includes a late 2013 MBP 15", with all the latest updates and no non-Apple parts attached, the aforementioned 4th gen time capsule, and an unremarkable 1 gig USB-3 drive hooked to that time capsule.
I also have a 5th gen TC, and am having the exact same problem with it, so this isn't a time-capsule machine specific issue. This is software or firmware - whether on the time capsules or within Mac OS, I don't know.
Thank you.
Not really Apple's fault here. By substituting the ASCII space character '%20' you removed the limitation of naming conventions that do not allow for spaces in the names.
You may find the following article "enlightening:"
Naming Files, Paths, and Namespaces - Microsoft
or this one:
Long Filenames or Paths with Spaces Require Quotation Marks - Microsoft Support
Need password to reconnect with time capsule
