Migrating to new Time Capsule

2012-11-30 Thread Jeff Weinberger
Hi: My time capsule seems to be on its last legs, so I am buying a new one. I have two Macs backed up to the current time capsule (using time machine) and a bunch of other stuff stored there. I know I can use finder copy to move stuff over when both are connected, but I am concerned about

Re: Migrating to new Time Capsule

2012-11-30 Thread Macs R We
Time Capsule is one of the few places where Apple completely exercises the ownership mechanism, so unless you're logged in as root, Finder copy is going to be a big headache (even if you're the only user on the backup). My first approach would be to mount both drives explicitly and then use

Re: Migrating to new Time Capsule

2012-11-30 Thread Jeff Weinberger
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Macs R We macs...@macsrwe.com wrote: Time Capsule is one of the few places where Apple completely exercises the ownership mechanism, so unless you're logged in as root, Finder copy is going to be a big headache (even if you're the only user on the backup). My

combining user accounts from two macs?

2012-11-30 Thread Jeff Weinberger
Hi: Second question of the day (thank you for your patience and help!). I just ordered the new iMac, and hope it will arrive sometime this year (read that sarcastically). Right now, I have an ancient iMac which was my main computer, but now barely functions. It has many of my files, settings,

Re: combining user accounts from two macs?

2012-11-30 Thread Neil Laubenthal
I have only one suggestion which would get the permissions working correctly; and even with this you may run into some strange permissions issues. On the new machine; don't create the account that you want to merge the two other accounts into yet. Immediately after creating the first admin

Re: combining user accounts from two macs?

2012-11-30 Thread Jeff Weinberger
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Neil Laubenthal n...@laubenthal.netwrote: I have only one suggestion which would get the permissions working correctly; and even with this you may run into some strange permissions issues. On the new machine; don't create the account that you want to merge

Re: Migrating to new Time Capsule

2012-11-30 Thread Macs R We
On Nov 30, 2012, at 4:10 PM, Jeff Weinberger wrote: First, thank you! Two questions: First, I'm not sure what you mean by mounting both drives explicitly - can you mount a time capsule drive in a way other than connecting it to the network? Second, I think you might have assumed that I

iCloud Mail Notes?

2012-11-30 Thread Ashley Aitken
Hi All, What does iCloud Mail and Notes offer? I don't believe it sync actual email and notes, but just configuration for Mail (which pre-Mountain Lion included notes). I don't have it currently checked on and manually setup email on each computer ... What will it do if I do check the box