A very frustrated 60 year old!
A friend is trying to set up my Time Capsule, which I bought in 2011. After I had my BT account compromised I was advised to download more security, but before my friend could do this she set up Mavericks to the latest version. Since then, I’ve had no end of trouble. Firstly, it wouldn’t find my printer, taking almost three hours to find it, and secondly, there’s the business of it not recognising my Time Capsule. My friend also has a MacBook Pro and she took my Time Capsule home and set it up on her machine straight away. So is Mavericks blocking my computer? Carole Smith No. This sounds more like a network problem than a Mavericks problem. It seems as if your Time Capsule has never been correctly set up and you’ve just been blithely unaware for the last three years. Plug the Time Capsule directly into the Ethernet port on your MacBook with a network cable. Right-click the Wi-Fi symbol on the menu bar and choose Turn Wi-Fi Off. You now have a local network consisting of just two devices: your MacBook and the Time Capsule. Open AirPort Utility. The Time Capsule should be recognised there. Click the Network tab and set Router Mode to ‘Off (Bridge Mode)’. Now you can run the initial backup, because this takes a long time and it’s much faster if you do it over a wired connection. Once it has finished, you can unplug the Time Capsule, turn Wi-Fi back on for your MacBook and move the Time Capsule over to your broadband router. I find it’s generally most convenient to sit it underneath the router and connect it directly to the router with the Ethernet cable. This is a much simpler network arrangement than having the Time Capsule connect wirelessly.