I am trying to move my old external hard drive (time machine ) to a new one

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I am trying to move my old external hard drive (time machine ) to a new one

I have tried to move my old external drive time machine to a new external drive:

1. have formated the new time external hard drive

2. I have unlocked and ignored the drives ownership

3. I have turn of the new hard drive and them tried dragging the file (backups.backupdp) to my new external hard drive

when I do that a message come up that says "this volume has that wrong case sensitivity for a backup"

What does this mean and how do I fix it?

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Denise🙂

Mac OS X (10.7.3)

Posted on Dec 13, 2013 9:56 PM

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Answer 1

mende1

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Dec 13, 2013 10:32 PM in response to BAMBINORUTH

What format did you use for the new external drive? It should be HFS+ (or "Mac OS Extended (Journaled); you will find both names in the Internet for the same thing).

What I recommend you to do is to format the new external drive again but choosing "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" as Format with Disk Utility > http://pondini.org/OSX/DU1.html

The rest of the steps are correct. See > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5096?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

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Answer 2

Linc Davis

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Dec 14, 2013 12:24 PM in response to BAMBINORUTH

Although the documentation says you can copy Time Machine backups in the Finder, it's very slow and sometimes doesn't work at all.

Launch Disk Utility, open the built-in help, and search for the term "Duplicate." Follow the instructions. All existing data on the destination volume will be erased. That shouldn't be a problem, because you don't want to mix backup and non-backup data on the same drive anyway. Turn Time Machine OFF in its preference pane while copying the volume.

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