I had time machine running on my ols macbook air. Bought a new macbook pro, clean install, ant attaching the old time machine drive, it's not showing on new machine. I can only access the old files via finder. what went wrong??
Aperture 3, OS X Yosemite (10.10)
According to the late James Ponds, articles on the subject, you did not follow the procedure outlined here:
but never fear, there is a way to "take over" your previous backups:
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Thank you for reminding me of tha author. I used to read him a lot, but stopped, as he didn't comment on the later OS es. Pre El Capitan as I remember.
Will study it next week, see if gives a solution and will report. Thanks again.
Time Machine has been pretty stable since the time he stopped writing. Almost all of his recommendations still apply, except the screen items may have been moved around a little.
He was not able to comment on later versions of MacOS due to his untimely death. A few of his friends here on the Apple Forums and his family are working together to keep his writings online.
Thank you for reminding me of tha author. I used to read him a lot, but stopped, as he didn't comment on the later OS es. Pre El Capitan as I remember.
Will study it next week, see if gives a solution and will report. Thanks again.
I'm sorry to hear that. His work on Time Machine has been the best by far; in fact the only instruction worse reading.
I succeded in recovering a big TM Drive, the smaller one I didn't have any luck, maybe because of the way I terminated the old system
Time machine not showing on new macbook pro
