Thank you, Jason. The back up of my old machine on TM is really rather large. That's why I want to get rid of it.
I am not sure what I should be doing with my TC. At the moment, I have an old set of backup data on TC. I have no access to this. I am not backing up the new machine (that's the one with the new mother board). I can't see what's on the TC: this machine is not registered using TM on TC: I've been waiting to clear the old stuff before I start with the nes. I don't know how to look at the TC disc, except as a TM item using the TM application. I can't see the sparse disc images. All I see is the recession to the origin of the universe, which is empty: the only thing actually there is the top window from my desktop: there's no backup on TC, of course. There is no disc image there, and there's nothing to select. Let me ask a different question, in case none of this makes sense. Can I even reformat the TC disc? I'm completely unsure if the software that runs the disc as a TC disc is on the disc or the computer. Ranulph On 2 Apr 2009, at 19:57, Jason Davies wrote: > > Ranulph Glanville wrote on 2/4/09 at 17:33 > >> I tried to avoid giving just such information because it complicates >> the matter. > > unfortunately that also governs the scope of the advice:-) Which > is therefore -- "delete what you don't want" (ie not much use) >> >> I was using TM on TC. My computer needed to go to hospital. It came >> back with a new mother board. It needed to go to hospital again, >> and it >> came back with another new mother board. I've looked at the terminal >> commands (and the various corrections) that allow you to continue >> using >> old backups with new mother boards, but there is nothing I have >> removed >> from my machine since I started using TM TC and rather than try to >> deal >> with terminal, I would just like to start again. >> >> However, there is a second machine backed up on the same TC, so I >> don't >> want to erase the disc. At the moment all I see on my machine when I >> look at TC is an image of the old backups I made on my machine >> drifting >> back into the origins of the universe. >> >> And all I want to do is erase all of that and start again from the >> machine as it is now with the new mother board. > > Do you see two sparse disk images? If so, one will have a name > like > yourUserName’s MacBook (3)_002332c4f68c.sparsebundle > > I believe the number is the MAC address. So you should be able > to identify which sparseimage goes with which machine. > > Alternatively, if you want for some reason to play it > ultra-safe, open Time Machine to see the infinite universe, > select Macintosh HD (or whatever), and select 'Delete All > Backups' from the action menu. > > > BUT - if in fact the change of mother board has not affected the > link with the back-up (which is how it sounds so maybe it's the > logic board that changes that), what you have there is ALREADY a > back-up of your current situation. If it hasn't changed much, > then you have a current back-up on TM already and deleting it > would just require you to do it all over again to no gain. > > > So in a way I still don't understand what you want to do. If > it's about saving space, it's a different answer again. But it > sounds as if you don't need to delete it as it would make hardly > any difference, but waste an awful lot of CPU cycles and time. > > > Or am I missing something? > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
