Re: Mac OS Sierra question

On 26/3/17, Godfrey DiGiorgi, discombobulated, unleashed: >ChronoSync Oh my -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__Broadcast, Corporate, || (O) |Web Video Production -- _

Re: Mac OS Sierra question

Godfrey DiGiorgi 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. I think I just bought a 4T external for $125. The Time Machine

Re: Mac OS Sierra question

Good to hear that you've got it running properly. I use "SuperDuper!" too, it's an invaluable tool, but only for cloning volumes. Unfortunately, when it clones bootable volumes, it does not clone the hidden 'startup volume' that allows re-installation of macOS, so I usually run a macOS

Re: Mac OS Sierra question

Thanks, Godfrey and Cotty. After resetting the PRAM and rebuilding disk permissions, the transfer is now proceeding smoothly. Only 12 of 16 total hours to go! Cotty, I’ve used Carbon Copy Cloner on my work computer, and it has done well. I’ll give Super Duper a look. Once the files on my 1TB

Re: Mac OS Sierra question

Rick In case this is of any use, I don't use Time Machine, instead preferring the manual control of Shirt Pocket's 'SuperDuper!' It's the dumbest name ever for a piece of software that is in fact one of the best methods to manually backup a hard drive. It is very well supported with updated

Re: Mac OS Sierra question

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 > wrote: Rick, I agree with Bruce:

Re: Mac OS Sierra question

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

Re: Mac OS Sierra question

Thanks, Bruce. 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. Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW > On Mar 26, 2017, at 10:09 AM, Bruce Walker wrote: >

Re: Mac OS Sierra question

Rick, an alternate suggestion. When I bought a larger Time Machine backup drive I just unhooked the older one and started new backups with the newer drive. If I ever need to recover older files, there's a simple way to remount the older disk and have TM search it too. So now I have backups going