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What's needed to hook up my external HD's to my Airport Extreme ?
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<blockquote data-quote="Doug b" data-source="post: 716244" data-attributes="member: 59143"><p>Derr... I'm an idiot ! ;D Yeah, I've only tried to plug one external HD in at a time directly into the "APEx", and this is the problem. I did have a look at the content of the page you linked. Problem was, I couldn't find the option which says: "From the main window of AirPort Disk Utility enable "Show AirPort Disks in the menu bar"." I just don't see that option. </p><p></p><p>It will be 2 more minutes before all my files from one of the drives is moved over to my MBP, so I'll just continue along that path, for now. Thanks for the link to that page again though, it's just that I don't really see that first option. Is it possible I wonder, that in a firmware update, they disabled this option ? I was told by one of the guys at the Apple store that this might be a possibility in the future (this was a month or so ago), so that they'd be able to sell more Time Capsules. That ... would suck, and I think warrant a return of the product considering there would have been no warning that they'd do this. Just speculation though, unless the option is there and I just don't see it ?</p><p></p><p>Doug</p><p></p><p>edit: Uuhch.. Why does it take so long for disk utility to erase free space ! ? 2 Hours .. My god. Furthermore, I see nothing about GUID in disk utility. I have to go to work, and won't be able to finish this now. What a silly nightmare. Why must this be so complicated ?</p><p></p><p>Ok, it wound up canceling the erase and I was able to get into the options for GUID, but now I'm getting an error when I go to partition the drive it is giving me an error stating that the drive can not be unmounted. I can't even eject the drive now because OS X says it's in use and to quit any applications. I already quit disk utility, and see nothing else that might be using it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Doug b, post: 716244, member: 59143"] Derr... I'm an idiot ! ;D Yeah, I've only tried to plug one external HD in at a time directly into the "APEx", and this is the problem. I did have a look at the content of the page you linked. Problem was, I couldn't find the option which says: "From the main window of AirPort Disk Utility enable "Show AirPort Disks in the menu bar"." I just don't see that option. It will be 2 more minutes before all my files from one of the drives is moved over to my MBP, so I'll just continue along that path, for now. Thanks for the link to that page again though, it's just that I don't really see that first option. Is it possible I wonder, that in a firmware update, they disabled this option ? I was told by one of the guys at the Apple store that this might be a possibility in the future (this was a month or so ago), so that they'd be able to sell more Time Capsules. That ... would suck, and I think warrant a return of the product considering there would have been no warning that they'd do this. Just speculation though, unless the option is there and I just don't see it ? Doug edit: Uuhch.. Why does it take so long for disk utility to erase free space ! ? 2 Hours .. My god. Furthermore, I see nothing about GUID in disk utility. I have to go to work, and won't be able to finish this now. What a silly nightmare. Why must this be so complicated ? Ok, it wound up canceling the erase and I was able to get into the options for GUID, but now I'm getting an error when I go to partition the drive it is giving me an error stating that the drive can not be unmounted. I can't even eject the drive now because OS X says it's in use and to quit any applications. I already quit disk utility, and see nothing else that might be using it. [/QUOTE]
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