Time Machine and Airport Updates 1.0

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Thanks for that Time machine tip. The formatting has been the snag for many people. Step by step help is hard to find.
Great work to you little proofreaders too. If you happen to be pretty you may become good front office assets someday.

Folks, It's real easy to get that USB attached drive on the Airport Extreme Base Station to read as an Time Machine capable drive:

1) Attach your drive to Disk Utility and format the drive for HFS+ Journaled so it's a fresh drive (for some reason it requires this)

2) Plug in the drive to your airport extreme and verify that the drive comes up as an available drive on the network

3) Open TERMINAL on any of your computers and type the following string into terminal and then press enter:

defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1

4) Reboot machine and it will then appear as a Time Machine capable network drive

Walllahhh

so if this is a 1.0 update, what version were we using before?

My USB hard drive (connected to my AirPort Extreme Base) does NOT show up as a Time Machine capable drive.

Maybe link to the direct download? Its here: http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/timemachineandairportupdatesv10.html

"If you don't stop and look around once in a while - you could miss it." :-)

It was silently included in the recent Airport (client-side) update that included Airport Utility 5.3.1. Many people are reporting their USB-attached disks on Airport Extreme base stations now show up for Time Machine backup.