I upgraded to another Imac. I wish to use my old backupdisk for Timemachine. I started with new backups but now I cannot acces the old backups. The new mac is however a backupcopy of the old Imac. Somehow the older files are blocked "2020-06-16-160145.inProgress" So a lot of old photos are no longer accessible to me. How can I get to my Imac to see them? It also does not work in Time Machine.
iMac, OS X 10.11
davidpauls wrote:
Migrating on my mac is only possible with the backups that are of Catalina. It did not bring up any files of the older OS.
This is not the solution to this problem. The files remain unaccessible.
Hold down the Option key and select "Browse Other Discs…" and then select the same disc. That should let you select the older backups.
davidpauls wrote:
Migrating on my mac is only possible with the backups that are of Catalina. It did not bring up any files of the older OS.
This is not the solution to this problem. The files remain unaccessible.
Hold down the Option key and select "Browse Other Discs…" and then select the same disc. That should let you select the older backups.
You need to do the restoring of files, i.e. iPhoto Library, from within the TM application. This graphic shows how it's done. Just go to the Pictures folder, enter Time Machine, go back to the latest version of the library you can find and restore it.
NOTE: if you can't get into the TM backups hold down the Option key and in the TM menu select "Browse Other Backup discs".
When you initially configured your new Mac, I suspect you may have gone about migrating information in a roundabout way. The correct and painless way to do it is to follow this excerpt from Set up your new Mac - Apple Support:
"You can also let it transfer information from another computer or Time Machine backup ..."
If you do that it will automatically inherit the older one's TM backups, and when it's finished your new Mac will resemble its predecessor as closely as possible.
You may wish to completely erase the new Mac and start over from the beginning. It will probably be the most efficient and least error-prone solution.
Erase the Mac according to What to do before you sell, give away, or trade in your Mac. When prompted to transfer information follow the instructions for migrating its content from a Time Machine backup. That will migrate your Photos Library.
You can find the external HD in the sidebar of the Time Machine window like you would in a Finder window. Select it, and find your photos on the EHD you said was backed up and then you can restore them. This screenshot shows how to find and access an EHD that is backed up with Time Machine:
iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2015)
Erase it and start over, but don't restore a TM backup. Instead, follow the Set up your new Mac - Apple Support procedure.
The reason is that you may not use Time Machine to restore backups of files were created with macOS versions that supersede the one you're restoring.
I did the install with option of using a Time Machine backup. So initially I ended up with a os High Sierra because my old iMac ( 2011 i7 27 inch) couldn’t upgrade to Catalina. I did the upgrade from the App Store manually. Then I somehow lost acces to the old backups and then they ended up being called 2020 and so on, in progress. Nothing of the iMac can access it.
So if I do a clean install ? Catalina will those files suddenly become visible to me ?
davidpauls wrote:
I did the install with option of using a Time Machine backup. So initially I ended up with a os High Sierra because my old iMac ( 2011 i7 27 inch) couldn’t upgrade to Catalina.
As I suspected that tortured method won't work. You wrote that you upgraded to another iMac. Is it not new?
No I bought it secondhand. I wiped the drive clean before I used the Time Machine of my old Mac to install the exact same imac ( configurations apps and so on) then I did the upgrade to Catalina, did a few backups on the same drive and then discovered I couldn’t go back in time with TM and can not acces the old backups anymore. So now I need to do a clean install and then I can acces the TM drive? Or use migration ?
Etrecheck does see the old backups
there is no record of the foto's. They were on a internal disk I accidently erased but fortunally I found the disk on a backup of Timemachine. I should have moved all of those files manually to another disk, but no I left them there and accessed them through lightroom. I went and done a clean install as was suggested here but that did. not bring the foto's back. Migration could not acces my old backups of an older OS.
I have the same problem. No access to my old backup data after a fresh install of Catalina from and already updated Catalina disc.
How can I get my photos back that are in the TM backup but no longer on the original drive ? Is there anyway ? It’s the photos I want.
Okay
I will go do that. Just this last question: what is 2020-06-16-160145.inProgress"?
It does not seem completed?
greets
David Slingerland
Timemachine backups no longer accessible and are called "2020-06-16-160145.inProgress"
