Hi Listers, I have an external 1TB hard drive I had actually bought through Apple, that is attached via usb hub to my airport extreme. It is partitioned so that one volume is my backup volume for time machine and the other just a place I store data. Not infrequently, my time machine reports that it cannot find the disk. When I open finder and look for the hard drive myself and the volumes, once I reach airport extreme in the sidebar and vo+right arrow to the browser section, my volumes are not there. The only thing I can do is to disconnect the usb cable and reconnect it for the hard drive to be visible in finder again.
I had done a lot of research before I went down the route of attaching a hard drive to airport extreme in this way and it should work in theory. Has anybody else noticed this behaviour? It’s annoying because I sometimes do not know whether time machine is backing up as it should or not, and then when I check manually when the last backup was performed, it might be a few days prior. Is the way I have my external hard drive connected unstable in your opinion? I know that Apple prefers us all to have the time capsule but that’s expensive. I wonder whether I’d be better off attaching my external drive manually once a day to the usb port on the computer and backing up in this way. Inconvenient but at least I would know the backup has happened. Thanks for any suggestions. Andrew -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
