Setting up Macintosh Time Machine

Being a newbie to Mac, and trying to set up Time Machine to back up files, etc, I am floundering.  When I click on the time machine icon, I get a window that says "a storage location for Time Machine backups isn't set up.  So I click on the option to choose a storage location.  Then  I get a window that shows an "off/on" switch and "choose backup disk."  The switch is in the off position.  There are 2 choices, switch it to the "on" position or click on "choose backup disk."  With both selections I am taken to another window that is blank except for a section to click on at the bottom that says "set up time capsule."  When I click on that another window pops up that says "searching for airport wireless devices."  Then it is unable to find wireless devices because I have none.  A vicious circle. 

Why did you put this in the chat section?

Where should it have gone?

Where should it have gone?

In Apple, where it is now.

Genius.  Being a newbie to Mac, and trying to set up Time Machine to back up files, etc, I am floundering.  When I click on the time machine icon, I get a window that says "a storage location for Time Machine backups isn't set up.  So I click on the option to choose a storage location.  Then  I get a window that shows an "off/on" switch and "choose backup disk."  The switch is in the off position.  There are 2 choices, switch it to the "on" position or click on "choose backup disk."  With both selections I am taken to another window that is blank except for a section to click on at the bottom that says "set up time capsule."  When I click on that another window pops up that says "searching for airport wireless devices."  Then it is unable to find wireless devices because I have none.  A vicious circle.

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