Thanks for this excellent help. The guy at Apple told me the Extreme wouldn't accept two different partitions, which I know is wrong because it did before. Let me give this a try and get back to you.
Can you send me your contact info in case I have further questions off list? b...@bholton.com From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Tim Kilburn Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2012 12:29 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: The new Airport Utility and a question about connections Hi Bill, When in Airport Utility, Interact with the Network Group. VO-space on the Airport Extreme you wish to work with. Press the Edit button to get at the configuration options. Select the Disk tab to see the options available in that pane. They are similar to those in the previous AU. Make sure that both your partitions are shared in the format you prefer. Update if necessary. The MacOS will mount whichever share you have setup for your Time Machine backups as "Time Machine Backups" on your machine as the Time Machine is doing it's job. If you have shared the partitions through AU, you can access the partitions individually via the Sidebar by first choosing your Airport Extreme from the Shared section of the Sidebar. Your partitions will then appear in the window where you can mount one or both as you please. They will not appear automatically or upon startup unless you set this up in the Users & Groups pane of your system Preferences. This is usually done by first mounting the drive you wish auto-mounted, going to the Login Items of Users & Groups system Pref, then adding the volume you wish to auto-mount. Hope this clears some things up for you. If you're still confused, let me know. Later... On 2012-02-04, at 9:26 AM, Bill Holton wrote: Hi. Has anyone tried the updated Airport Utility. It seems rather inaccessible to me. Once I found a way into the menus with bay station, wireless, etc. but I can't find my way back there. Before, I had a 2 tarabyte drive partitioned into two 1t drives connected to my airport extreme and I could se them both on my desktop. I had all the ports on the extreme filled and had to use the Mini wirelessly, so I moved the drive to directly connected to mmy mini where they also worked fine. Now I have my mini connected with a wired connection, want to move them back. I can find the drive I use for my time machine backups, but the other drive simply will not show up. I reformatted it with Mac Journaling, and I have looked everywhere. I use the Finer to go to my computer, to network, to my airport, it's just not there. I did get into the airport software yesterday and make sure the box is checked to connect external drives. For now the drives are labeled test and TM for time machine. On my desktop the TM drives shows up, but it's called Time Machine backups. The Test drive will not show up. Any thoughts or suggestions appreciated. Bill -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
