I have AirPort Time Casule 2TB, using Wi-Fi to back-up my old iMac and just bougt a new iMac. The frist time I have tryed to Transfer Information to this Mac. It has been 24 Hours and nothing different on my new iMac.
iMac 27", macOS 10.15
NEVER connect using Wi-Fi, it was never designed to transfer that much data. Your Time Capsule has a USB connection, please connect that to your new Mac and then launch Migration Assistant and follow the on-screen prompts.
NEVER connect using Wi-Fi, it was never designed to transfer that much data. Your Time Capsule has a USB connection, please connect that to your new Mac and then launch Migration Assistant and follow the on-screen prompts.
Umm, I think the USB port on an Airport Time Capsule was designed only for printer sharing or hard drive sharing on your network. You can not connect to a Mac with a USB cable to access the Time Capsule drive inside an Airport.
The WiFi connection, or a hard-wire Ethernet cable, is the only way to restore data from the internal Time Capsule hard drive in the Airport, unless you take the device apart and physically remove the hard drive and put it in a USB enclosure or use a bare cable adapter.
Restoring all that data over the network will take a long time. I suggest getting an external hard drive to directly back up the old Mac, then connect that backup drive to the new Mac and restore the files from there. When you are done, you could hook that hard drive up to the USB port on the Time Capsule and use that for Time Machine to make a future migration faster, since you would have the option of using a direct USB connection to another computer, if that makes sense. You can connect a new USB drive to the Airport Time Capsule, and copy from the existing backup to the USB connected hard drive. Then you can use that USB backup copy on another computer.
There is also an option of Target Disc Mode, where you connect the two Macs together directly to share the internal drive from one to the other, but you may need some specific cables and adapters depending on what type of ports are available on the two Macs from different time frames.
some more info that might be useful:
Transfer Time Machine backups from one backup disk to another
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202380
"If your old or new backup disk is an AirPort Time
Capsule or other networked backup disk, connect it to your Mac using
Ethernet for the fastest transfer speed."
https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/transfer-files-mac-computers-target-disk-mode-mchlp1443/mac
Your new Mac likely has only USB C (Thunderbolt 3) port, your External Hard Disk likely has a USB A or B connection. So you need a USB C to USB adapter. An example would be:
https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MJ1M2AM/A/usb-c-to-usb-adapter
I am using my iMac (27-inch, Late 2013), 3.4 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i5. I am going to trying Archiveing the AirPort Time
Capsule and see what happens. I just bought Insignia "Universal File Transfer Cable" from Best Buy. I have 10 TB hard drive Partion in to 3 Partion 1 a 5 TB the onther each 2.5 TB.
Tom
Thank-You for answering.
What do I need cable wise to hook it up?
Thanks again for helping.
Tom
I just recieved a Thuderbolt 3 (USB-C) cable and I am not sure what the jack is on the back of my old iMac doesnot.
Is there adapter at Best Buy I can get?
Tom
Sound's good to my I'll order one.
Thank-You For your help and time.
Tom
Which exact Mac are we talking about?
A USB cable!
New iMac have old iMac.
