How to move files from my full Time Machine to a different external drive?
Hello there. I have a 320 GB external hard drive which I have been using as my "Time Machine." It recently filled it up and I would like to move the data (files, music, pics, etc.) to a larger external hard drive.
HOWEVER, I don't want this new drive to be another "Time Machine." I want to store files here in an archival fashion in my own folder structure. (Some of the files on my Time Machine are no longer on my iMac, otherwise this wouldn't be an issue and I would just copy from my iMac to the new external drive.)
Can anyone help with which particular files I should be copying from the Time Machine (I am just opening it in the finder window, I am not launching Time Machine itself)? I don't know a lot about Time Machine but I know that hard links are created and I just want to make sure I get the right data copied over.
Thanks for any direction or insight you may have.
That's not really the way time machine works. Yes it copies most all your files to it, but it's real job is to keep multiple copies of each file that changes.
Let say you have a document file named "List of things" and you add and delete stuff off of it and over a weeks time you did this 10 times, well time machine will now have 10 copies of that file, one for each version you changed.
If you just want to "restore" a file to another disk you can do that by entering Time Machine and picking the file, right click and select "restore to" then it will bring it forward and allow you to place it on another drive.
If you just delete files off the time machine drive (or move) then you will mess up the database and render the time machine functions useless.
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