Use the system the way it was intended, not the way you feel it ought to be used and it will work perfectly.
I think I'll memorise that sentence and start using it at work. B On 26 Mar 2017, at 22:51, Godfrey DiGiorgi <godd...@me.com<mailto:godd...@me.com>> wrote: Rick, I agree with Bruce: just start a new backup, keep the older one for retrieval of older, archived files. A 2T drive is like $100 nowadays, buy a new drive to be your primary external drive. The Time Machine backup is a very complex layering of files and other information. It wasn't designed to be copied or manually manipulated. Use it the way it was intended and it works perfectly, try to use it other ways and you run into problems. I advise you to use it the way it was intended to be used. I just recently cloned a 2T backup onto a 4T new volume, none of it a backup repository. All kinds of odd file names. No problems at all with Sierra. I did the same with Mavericks and El Capitan when I was running them. Use the system the way it was intended, not the way you feel it ought to be used and it will work perfectly. TM Backup drives were not intended to be copied manually, that's all. G On Mar 26, 2017, at 10:51 AM, Rick Womer <rickpic...@gmail.com<mailto:rickpic...@gmail.com>> wrote: However, in my case the old backup drive (2TB) is becoming my new primary external drive; and I have a new 4TB drive for backups. So I need to copy the files. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
