Thanks for the quick reply. Neither shows up on my desktop. Have restarted many 
times and neither show up anywhere except airport utility. I did hard reset on 
old one because it showed both networks. I gave new one different name and it's 
working.weird. 

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> On Jan 4, 2015, at 1:29 PM, John Robinson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Tom, 
> 
> This sounds right, you would want TM turned off during the transfer so data 
> isn’t written to the wrong one.
> 
> You would want to drag and drop the past backups to the new machine, then 
> eject the old TM.  
> 
> Then turn TM back on and choose the new device as the one for your Mac to use…
> 
> That should take care of it.  Why it doesn’t show up?  I have no idea, maybe 
> when all is done do a restart and see if that helps.  I assume they DO show 
> up on your desktop so you can do the dragging of the data from the old to the 
> new?
> 
> 
> John
> 
> 
>> On Jan 4, 2015, at 6:02 PM, Tom <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Aloha and happy new year to everyone.
>> Hopefully someone has had success with this.
>> I received a new 2tb time capsule for Christmas and want to transfer the 
>> backups from the old 1tb one to it. Apple support has instructions on how to 
>> do this but the last step has you go to system pref, click on time machine, 
>> make sure it's off, then click select disk and drag old to new. They say 
>> both will show in finder sidebar, but on my machine they do not show up. I'm 
>> running Yosemite. In airport utility both capsules show up in vertical line. 
>> New one is working as router but they say not to use as time machine until 
>> old backup transferred. Any help is greatly appreciated. 
>> Tom
>> 
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