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

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