Zhigang Wu wrote:
Dear Pondini, my macbook air has been stolen today on an exhibition, I went to buy a new one tonight. When I back to home, I connect it to my time capsule, Time machine ask me to select where to backup. I choosen and input password of my time capsule.
Have you put your data back on the new Mac?
When the new Mac first started up, it should have asked if you wanted to transfer your info:
Select From Another Disk and follow the onscreen instructions to transfer everything from the backups of the old Mac, so the new Mac will be set up just like the old one. See Using Setup Assistant on Mountain Lion or Lion for details.
If you do that, and transfer everything including Settings, when you do the first backup you should be asked if you want the new Mac to "inherit" the backups of the old one, per #B5 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting. If you choose to, the backups will appear to have been made from the new Mac. When you use the Time Machine browser (the "Star Wars" display), you'll see new and old backups all at once.
If you don't do the transfer that way, or don't choose to "inherit" the old backups, Time Machine will start a new set of backups for the new Mac. The first backup will be a full one, not just the changes, so will require a lot of space. And you won't see the old backups at the same time as the new ones.
And I saw Time machine shows it will start back up in 120 second, I turn off time machine and then turn on, it will not automatically backup.
No, once you turn it off and back on, it probably won't back up for an hour.
(I do not have experience for use Time machine before, just worry the back up will overwrite old backup, so I am sure no new back from my new MBA to the Time Capsule, picture above are list my backup of my stolen one)
No, the first backup of the new Mac will not delete the old backups. But if you don't choose to "inherit" the old backups, the new backups will be placed in a separate sparse bundle on your Time Capsule. You'll still be able to see the old ones, via the Browse... option, per #E3 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting.
Now, when I enter time machine, it will popup the error 6584, then, I tried verify backup as you mentioned in previous posts (option + clicking the icon of time machine), when it finished, I still cannot see any backup when I enter star war view.
Since you apparently haven't transferred your data, no, you won't see the old backups normally, since they're from a different Mac than the one you're now using. You should be able to see them via the Browse... option as above.
1. how can I restore everything on my stolen macbook air to this new one?
As noted above, your best bet is/was to transfer when the new Mac first starts up. Since you seem to have skipped that, and have already set up a user account, your best bet is to use one of the workarounds (probably #4) in the green box of Problems after using Migration Assistant. (I realize you didn't actually use Migration Assistant, but you only get one chance to use Setup Assistant, so you need a workaround.)
2. in my old MBA, besides Moutain Lion, I also installed a Windows 7 in Parallel Desktop 7, will it restored together?
I don't do Windoze, but unless you specifically excluded the Windows virtual files, yes.
3. the recover include everything? Even include my files on desktop?
Yes, assuming you hadn't excluded them from backups.
My email:
I'll ask the hosts to edit that out, so you don't get swamped with spam.
