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.
Sent from my iPad > 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 >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacGroup mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected] http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
