Hmmm. Well, I am running Snow Leopard and it never asked anything like that, it just started the backup as usual and then ran out of space.
I can use the TM dock app menu option to "Browse other TM backups" but that only lets me read them but does not allow TM to recognise as valid backups for my iMac. I had seen the article Mark and may well try that. Thanks for your suggestions. Stephen On 29 May 2011, at 09:03, Mark Schofield wrote: > Hi Stephen, > > Did anything like this happen? > > under Snow Leopard, Apple has allowed for this. When you turn on TM > for the first time, it will ask you: > > Would you like to reuse the backup [..] with this computer? > (The backup was created on a different computer. If you reuse this > backup it can no longer be used by the original computer.) > > If you are running Leopard these is this work-around: > > http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20080128003716101 > > Yours > Mark > > Mark Schofield, Hove > > > > On May 28, 2:03 pm, Stephen Watson <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> Having connected up my existing TM backup drive to my new iMac it's now run >> out of space attempting to complete the backup from my new iMac. >> >> The TM disk is 500GB. The data on my new iMac - transferred from my old iMac >> - is 164GB so there should be plenty of space with 90GB remaining. However, >> I suspect that it's doing it's best to make a brand new backup of everything >> as it's a new computer instead of just making an incremental backup to the >> final TM backup from my old iMac. Looking on the Apple Community it seems >> that OS X uses the MAC address to determine which TM backup belongs to this >> iMac and at the moment TM will not even display my old backups! >> >> Is there any way that I can just get it to recognise my previous backups and >> add an incremental backup or do I need to remove one or all of my previous >> backups to continue? Eeek! >> >> Cheers, >> >> Stephen >> >> ...the sense of being which in calm hours arises, we know not how, in the >> soul, is not diverse from things, from space, from light, from time, from >> man, but one with them and proceeds obviously from the same source.... Here >> is the fountain of action and of thought.... We lie in the lap of immense >> intelligence. - Ralph Waldo Emerson > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an 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. > "To be truthful about it, there was no way we could have got the public consent to have suddenly launched a campaign on Afghanistan but for what happened on September 11" (Tony Blair, The Times, July 17 2002) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an 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.
