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Question

Time Capsule

Oct 3, 2011 5:25AM PDT

<span id="INSERTION_MARKER">I have a friend with a divorced, split family, the boy stays with dad and the girl with mum, both have access rights and all have Macs, iPad and iPhones.<span>

<span>My friend wants to set the Time capsule up so that the kids can only see their own backups (so mum can't pry into his business!).
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<span>It's not obvious reading the documentation or talking to others how to set this up simply. At the moment he has gained protection from using parental rights but there must be a better way than this.
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<span>Anybody any ideas?

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Clarification Request
There is just one Time Capsule?
Oct 3, 2011 5:31AM PDT

what do they do with it, move it back and forth between houses?

Personally, I would bite the bullet and either purchase a second one and give it to the girl or, the cheaper route, purchase a 2TB USB hard drive and get her to use that.

Then remove all access to his home network from the outside.

Would that work?

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TM usage
Oct 4, 2011 1:24AM PDT

No they keep it at his place though the mum comes around with her daughters laptop. He just wants to shield each Capsule user from everyone else.

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if these are Time Machine backups,
Oct 4, 2011 6:29AM PDT

then I think they will only work for the user that created them.

If they are actual files just copied from the Mac to the Time Capsule, then the folder in which they are housed should have restrictions on who can/cannot see the contents.

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