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how to transfer from mac to mac using time machine

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  • I have a new macbook pro and want to transfer my Mail autofill from my old mac. Never used Time Machine or Migration Assistant -- looks complicated. Any easy way to do this?

    I have a new macbook pro and want to transfer my Mail autofill from my old mac. Never used Time Machine or Migration Assistant -- looks complicated. Any easy way to do this?

    caitlinfromcambridge wrote:
    Thanks -- I would like to try this. I do not know how to reach hard drive from old mac to new. Can you help me with this?
    There are two ways - you can boot your old Mac in Target Mode (reboot your Mac, and as soon as you hear the startup chime hold down the T key on the keyboard until you see the yellow/orange Firewire logo on screen).  You can then use a FireWire cable to connect your new mac to your old one.  The old Mac hard drive will appear on your new Mac as if it is an external hard drive.
    Details on Target Disk Mode:  http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1661
    If you don't have a firewire cable but you do have a home network (i.e. both computers can access the Internet at the same time), you can share the hard drive on your old Mac and then connect to it on your new Mac.
    Good article on sharing your hard drive:  http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1549
    Finally, if the above doesn't thrill you, you can hook an external drive to your old Mac, copy the mail folder over to it, then connect the external drive to your new Mac and copy it over.  It's two steps, but if you don't have a firewire cable and aren't comfortable with sharing over a network it will work just as well - you just have to wait for the mail folder to copy twice instead of once.
    If you get stuck post back!

  • The memory on my MAC is full. It holds 4GB of RAM of which 79GB are photos. I would like to back up my photos to an external drive but just don not know how. I do not wish to use time machine. How do I back up my photo library, then delete the them t

    The memory on my MAC is full. It holds 4GB of RAM of which 79GB are photos. I would like to back up my photos to an external drive but just do not know how. I do not wish to use time machine. How do I back up my photo library, then delete them from my MAC to free up that 79GB? Thank you.

    Hi
    Just to clarify a couple of points in your post.
    RAM (memory) is different from hard drive space. You have 4GB of RAM, but that has no bearing on the amount of drive space you have, of which we know that 79GB are photos.
    If those photos are in iPhoto, you should be able to move the entire iPhoto Library, from the Pictures folder, to your external hard drive. You can just drag and drop. Do not have iPhoto open while you're doing this. Once it's done, you can double-click on the moved iPhoto Library file to associate it with iPhoto, so that the app remembers where the library is for next time.
    One more thing. When you move a file to a different location, and then delete the original, you don't have a backup. You still only have one copy. So if that external drive dies, you will lose all your photos. Time Machine is a very good way to prevent this from happening. You should dedicate a different drive for Time Machine backups.
    Matt

  • Just moved CS4 Web from old mac to new using time machine. Apps won't launch. Help?

    Just moved CS4 Web from old mac to new using time machine. I get an error when I try to launch a program on the new computer (150:30). After contacting live chat about the issue and providing all serial numbers etc. I was directed to a download. The download was a .dmg file that my computer did not recognize. It was suggested that I ask the experts on the forum how to resolve the issue. I have all the discs and serial numbers but the new macbook pro doesn't take discs (I guess they think all apps are downloadable now). Any ideas?

    Hmm... I don't know why they sent you here... CS4 is not part of the Cloud
    I have some download links for earlier versions of Premiere Pro and Premiere Elements, but not CS4 Web
    My best idea is to take a LARGE USB memory stick to a friend with a DVD drive and copy your DVD over to the USB memory stick
    Or, ask in the forum for your program(s) to find out if anyone has CS4 download links
    If you start at the Forums Index https://forums.adobe.com/welcome
    You will be able to select a forum for the specific Adobe product(s) you use
    Click the "down arrow" symbol on the right (where it says All communities) to open the drop down list and scroll

  • How to backup mac os x using time machine

    how to backup mac os x using time machine

    yes.presently my mac is running but it is too slow. i want to upgrade to yosemite can i upgrade to it directly from 10.9 without upgrading to 10.9.5.
    And another problem is, if  i upgrade anything it asks me to restart and when i does that it stucks at loading and my os is crashing.pls help me out .
    pls tell me how to back up my os x with time machine and how to restore that os using time machine if my mac gets  crashed.

  • Migrating to new Mac Book Air using time machine and seems stuck?

    I am transferring my data my  5 year old Mac Book Pro to new Mac Book Air via Time Machine because other methods were not working due to technology out of date incompatibility and my old computer is on its last legs here.  Need to get moving on this. Everything appears to be going fine. Just wondered since I have never done this and I realize it takes awhile. At present, the screen is saying it is transferring documents and will take another 13 minutes and it has said this for the last 2 hours and the line below shows still about 2/3 more to go.  This has been going for about 4 hours total now. Just wondering if this is normal?
    Thank you in advance.

    It takes awhile, especially if you have a lot of data. The last time I did this it took over 6 hours. The time estimates are usually way off.

  • How do I keep comp on while using Time Machine, iTunes etc..?

    Hello
    I want to know how to put the settings on my computer not to shut off. I have gone to the Energy Saver icon and made the changes so that it never shuts off and after about 15 minutes it will still turn off.
    I want this setting for when im backing up my comp using Time Machine and also when I listen to music. I dont want to have to be next to the computer and have to hit a button or move the mouse so that it wont turn off.
    Any suggestions or advice will be appreciated.
    p.s. -- i have a black macbook from 2007 if that matters.

    As you can see I have the settings to NEVER and after 15-`6 minutes it goes to the sign in page anyway

  • How to take os recovery with out using time machine backup

    I ve just bought a macbook pro & I m very new to MAC OS. I wanna to take recovery of only Original OS with out using time machine & I also dnt want 2 store my personal files & stuffs. Pls guys suggest some tips for recovering my os If any problem occurs in future.

    S@ggy wrote:
    I ve just bought a macbook pro & I m very new to MAC OS. I wanna to take recovery of only Original OS with out using time machine & I also dnt want 2 store my personal files & stuffs. Pls guys suggest some tips for recovering my os If any problem occurs in future.
    It's not real clear what you want to do.
    Do you mean you don't want to back up your personal data at all, just the operating system?  If so, why?  Usually it's the personal data -- documents, photos, videos, etc., that are most important to folks, so should be backed-up.
    Or do you mean, you have some sensitive data that you don't want anyone to be able to recover if they get your backup disk?  If so, Time Machine can encrypt the backups, so anyone without a backup can't recover anything.
    Or something else?

  • How do I recover my files after using time machine restore?

    Hello guys! I have been using Time Machine to back up my Macintosh HD into an external disk in August this year. Considering the limited storage of my external disk, I have excluded all of my photos and musics to be backed up. Today I got some problems of my system and started using time machine to restore my computer to the state of August. After restoring, I found all of my photos and musics and other important files which have been excluded to be backed up by time machine are missing. What a disaster. Is there any way to recover all the missing files? Or is it possible to undo today's time machine recovery? Many thanks in advance!

    many thanks for your reply. But for the current matter, do you have any other great ideas for me to take back all of my missing files. I will definitely buy a lager storage disk to back up all the files. But how could I solve the current issue? I have already tried the software you mentioned in the lien, it seems no help. Thank you anyway!

  • How do i restore my iTunes library using time machine

    how do i restore my iTunes library using time machine

    Quit iTunes if it is open.
    "Enter Time Machine", navigate to the backup you wish to restore, select your Music folder, then select the iTunes folder within it, and click Restore.

  • Data transfer: ext hard drive to new Mac with Mavericks using Time Machine

    Data from old computer is on ext hard drive. I delayed transfer to new Mac. Now using Migration Assistant bit I don't know if it is working or just hung up. It shows 'looking for other sources' for over an hour. Please advise.

    In general, most people will recommend Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper! You can find either one easily enough with a web search.
    However, in your case, I imagine you are going to have a hard disk returned to you all by itself, and you will need to install it in an enclosure. Don't let that bother you as this is easy to do and the enclosures are not expensive ($40 or so).
    Once that is done, I would recommend you set up your brand new Mac by answering all the questions during initial setup as usual. Be sure to use your correct Apple ID - probably the same one you used to log into this support forum. When you reach the point in which it asks you if you would like to transfer your old documents and settings, connect the old hard disk and select it as the source. It will take some time as it copies all its contents to your new Mac. All your familiar items will be exactly as they were on the failed Mac.
    After that, you can use the old hard disk as a Time Machine backup. When you are satisfied everything on your new Mac is running as it should, go ahead and erase the old disk. Then, tell Time Machine to designate it as a backup, and the rest is automatic.

  • Unable to boot from a 'successful' restore using time machine.

    My iBook took a dirt-nap and had to have serious repairs done by Apple. No problem, I have an external HD with my Time Machine back ups. However, when 'restoring from back up', I notice a few things; first, the only version that shows up is the original backup from two years ago. Second, after choosing that version to recover, I cannot boot. Running Verbose boot shows that the last thing happening is CSRHIDTransitionDriver getting a null.
    So, it's obvious that my external HD time machine data is corrupt. Is there a way to get back my data with a corrupted time-machine back up? I can see all of the back ups in there. I have run disk utilities and verified both the mac disk and external HD and ran repair disk permissions after my recovery and still no luck.

    Well, you don't know that the TM backup drive is corrupt. You may just have done the wrong type of restore. Not to worry at this point.
    Boot from your Leopard installer DVD and perform an Erase and Install. Once you have a working system installed you can restore your data from the TM backup drive using Migration Assistant. Be sure that you use a different username for the initial account in Setup Assistant. That way you can migrate your old Home folder without changing the username. Once you migrate your old Home folder you can log into it and delete the account created in the Setup Assistant.

  • How do i restore my MacBook Pro using Time Machine?

    I have a Hard Drive with a Time Machine backup on but i have also other files such as videos, photos, programs etc. I'm just wondering if the other files get deleted if I restore my MacBook Pro? Thx

    Using the Time Machine backup to restore to your Mac will not delete other files you have on the Time Machine backup disk.
    However, in general, it is not a good idea to store live files on a Time Machine backup disk.  The Time Machine disk can fail just like any other disk.  If it does it is no big deal for Time Machine.  You purchase another drive and start another backup.  However if that drive fails, the other files on it will be lost.  So if you offload files onto an extenral drive, they should be on a non-backup drive.  Then go into the Time Machine preferences and make sure that offload drive is not excluded from the list of volumes it will backup.

  • Backing up iPhoto library from an external drive using time machine

    I have a rMBP that is rapidly running out of storage.  I purchased an external USB drive to store my iphoto library on.  I have a time capsule that backs up my rMBP.  If i include the external drive in the time machine set up, what happens when  it backs up and the USB drive is not connected?
    Any one have a similar setup that can give some advise i would appreciate it. 

    If i include the external drive in the time machine set up, what happens when  it backs up and the USB drive is not connected?
    Well, since the drive is not connected, any changes since the last backup will not be backed up.
    When you reconnect the USB hard drive, Time Machine will backup your Mac and the USB drive.

  • How do I backup books in iBooks using Time Machine

    An iBook purchased text book no longer displays diagrams so I have tried to restore a previous backup but when I open my iBook library and then enter Time Machine it opens a Finder window for the Desktop, if I then navigate to iBooks app I just get info on the app no access to content. Where am I going wrong? I am using a late 2012 iMac running OSX Mavericks 10.9.4.

    Delete the book and download again from the iTunes store.

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