Could that be why you were having problems originally? Did the time capsule work as advertised when you first started using it? I have been using a usb drive with Time Machine and it works flawlessly, the drive is set up on my desk and when I use the laptop there I plug in the drive (at least once a week) One tb drives are less than $100 now and seem like a good solution. Gerhard gerhardk@xxxxxxx On 2011-02-22, at 11:17 AM, Doug Bale wrote: > The TC died last week.