From your message, I can't understand what effect you are trying to achieve.
At first, I thought you were trying to clone all operation of your dead machine onto this other machine, but somehow that doesn't seem to square with your story. Then, I thought you were just trying to reuse the drive to be a Time Machine drive for a different machine, to which the answer is just to erase the drive; but no, you seem to want to keep the old data around. It sounds like you're trying to keep the history of the old machine available on the new machine, but not make the new machine a clone of the old machine. If that's so, then where you are is as far as you can be. Time Machine won't let you access the history of machine A from machine B, because they have no common history. Yeah you can drag files around via the Finder, but you can't use the automated GUI. > On Feb 15, 2017, at 12:29 PM, Carl Hoefs <[email protected]> > wrote: > > A mid-2010 iMac (Yosemite) mobo flaked out on me so I transferred its > external TimeMachine drive to a late-2009 iMac (Sierra). In Sys Prefs I > selected the new drive to be the TimeMachine drive. But when I attempt to > Enter Into TimeMachine, it gives me an error panel saying: > "Can't connect to a current Time Machine backup disk." > > What does that mean? I can access the drive and the files on it manually in > Finder. How can I tell TM to use the drive and the existing backups? The new > iMac has the same name as the old one. > -Carl > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
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