Q: Time Machine
You mention backing up a machine you want to get rid of to Time Machine. Have you tried to use such a backup? In my experience you cannot access individual files and folders backed up from a machine you no longer have. You can only do a full restore. This really, really limites Time Machine's value. You can't archive a couple of backups and retrieve files from them. The only way is to dedicate a drive and do a full restore, extremely time consuming and unhelpful. Am I missing something?
Time Machine, OS X Mavericks (10.9)
Posted on Dec 10, 2013 8:51 AM
You can access the backed up files themselves from the back up file itself in the finder, you don't need Time Machine enabled to do this.
Posted on Dec 10, 2013 9:03 AM