On 2017-02-15, at 11:29 AM, 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 The real question, that I do not understand: What is your goal? Is your goal to restore files from this backup to the new machine? Is the goal to use this drive with the new machine? Is the goal to "inherit" the backup database for use on this new machine -- the backup is a close match to the current machine, that you are willing to let old archives go poof as the drive is used for current backups? What is your goal? What do you want to accomplish? > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk --- Entertaining minecraft videos http://YouTube.com/keybounce
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