Cannot load backup onto older MacBook Pro
I own a early 2008 MacBook Pro and my mom owns a early/late 2011 MacBook Pro. Mine has recently been showing signs of slowing down a little bit and my mom asked if I wanted to switch computers since I will be going back to school and she rarely uses hers. Well we both backed up our computers on the AirPort Time Capsule and wiped our computers. Everything from my 2008 laptop loaded fine onto her 2011 laptop but when she went to load everything from her volume on the AirPort Time Capsule, it cannot find the volume. Is this because all of her files are going onto an older MacBook Pro? Both are updated to the newest software and everything. Anyone have any idea what is going on and how we can "Find" her backup and load it onto the 2008 computer? Thanks!
Mavericks can have issues. I presume you are attempting to migrate the infomation.
First mount the TC hard disk on the older computer in finder. You might need to do it manually. ie Go, Connect to server if the computer is having trouble seeing the TC drive at all.
Then it might not easily find the backup. Please ensure you have ipv6 turned on to link-local.
You also can have permissions issues. This can become very problematic.
In the end you may need to manually restore files, by mounting the sparsebundle in finder.
See Pondini Q17.. but please do read from 14-16 so you understand it.
http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html
Also the stuff on the home page about migrate is important albeit it is not up to Mavericks.
http://pondini.org/TM/Home.html
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