New Mac with old Time Machine

I have a new dual quad-core with SLeopard. I have been using a 1TB WD external as a time machine on my old Dual-core with Leopard. What do I do to move the WD time machine to the new Mac? Will it just start backing up the new data or do I have to wipe the WD and start over?

There's a new feature in Snow Leopard. When your first backup starts (not when you select the drive for use with Time Machine, oddly enough), you'll get a prompt asking what to do.
See #B5 in the Time Machine - Troubleshooting *User Tip* at the top of this forum.

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Privilege problem with old Time Machine backup

There are all kinds of posts about privilage problems, but I can't find my answer. I did a clean install of Snow Leopard, and now I want to only drag my iTunes library and iPad backup files from my time machine backup onto the computer. I can access all the files on the backup drive, including MobileSync and my iTunes folder, but when I try to pull them off the drive I get the terrible message "The operation can’t be completed because you don’t have permission to access “MobileSync”." The sharing & permissions for the folder say "read & write" for my user, and the "Locked" box isn't checked in the Get Info window. When I click on the settings gear in the Sharing & Permissions window, the "Make me the owner" option is grayed out even after I unlock the options. I tried resolution for issue 1 here. And I also tried those terminal commands to no avail. When I access Time Machine from the dock, all the backups prior to my reinstall are listed, but I can't access them. Anyone have any other ideas? This is extremely frustrating. Note: I am able to copy over files from the backups created after I reinstalled Snow Leopard.
sudo chflags 0 /Volumes/Volumename
sudo chown 0:80 /Volumes/Volumename
sudo chmod 775 /Volumes/Volumename
sudo chmod -N /Volumes/Volumename

I personally think that Time Machine is a magical process run by unicorns.
I just moved from a MacBook Pro to a brand spanking new iMac 27". My iPad just does everything that I need a laptop to do, and an iMac is so much more powerful than a MBP.
Anyways, I setup my new iMac with the MBP Time Machine backup, as I usually do with new Macs. As I was going to sell my MBP, I was just going to use my 3TB Time Machine drive on my new iMac, thinking that I'd lose 9 months of backups, as I usually do with a new Mac. Except, apparently with Mountain Lion, the unicorns and wizards have decided that the old Time Machine backups are now transferred to the new iMac. So, even though my iMac is only 15 days old, it shows 9 months of backups. Which was a lifesaver, because an important photo got corrupted in the restore process, and I found it in the Wayback Machine.
Cool stuff.

New mac with old apps?

Hey I'm planning to get new macbook air soon and I was wondering, I got mini mac now where I got loads of apps with addons Is it possible for me to transfer some of the apps which I got on my mac mini to macbook without instaling them ?

You can use a backup such as Time Machine, to help migrate to a new computer.
•OS X: How to migrate data from another Mac using Mavericks
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5872
Toward the bottom of this ^ article you can see a toggle triangle that opens more
info about using migration assistant with a time machine, or other backup HDD.
It says, "Time Machine or other disk migration." The rest may be helpful, too.
The support article below is similar to this Mavericks one. I likely could find
other online articles with additional details, as some are cited here in ASC
discussions by some of the long-time high number volunteers. I have bookmark
links to places I've been over the past 15 years, some still work. So I may have
to look through the sites to see if any are applicable to this discussion.
(A few articles may suggest upgrading the OS X in the older computer, but
I would avoid anything but a minor step to the system in your old computer
because an upgrade to an old one may be a very bad idea. It can be awful.)
There are other articles in Support, some are more specific and others try to
cover a wider range of general purpose when possible. Things change, so an
older article may help to some extent, depending on the old OS X vintage;
should any question relate to the Mini's current OS X or what the applications
are that you may need to have similar ones of, to use documents or other files
you made in the older system & mini, in a new system in a MB/Air.
In some instances there may be a reference to a 'setup assistant' and some
of that is similar to the migration assistant; except one can be used before
you've personalized the new mac, and have it import stuff on initial boot up
of the new computer. I'd tend to wait and do that later, to see what really
can be done with the new computer, and use migration assistant later.
An older article similar to the one linked above, also mentions using setup assist.
•OS X: How to migrate from another mac using Mt Lion or earlier:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4889?viewlocale=en_US
If you have an Apple Store with Genius bar, you could ask to see if they can
help you set up the new Mac, if you take your old one & backup hard drive
or time machine device in. Some can do that. However be sure that your old
Mini still has all its stuff since you may need to use it for the older applications
should some newer ones not be to your liking; or as a backup computer, if
you were planning on keeping it around. What Mini model series is it?
The Help viewer in your computer, should be able to supply you with more
information, and depending on the version OS X and its Help viewer, it
may draw information from the Support database servers online. I use a
google search or other, on occasion, & get Support articles that way, too.
Hopefully the new MacBook Air works out for you. I'd considered a MB/Pro
due to generally higher specs available, but don't really need Retina display.
So I get 'pre-buyers remorse' instead of being a compulsive buyer...
Good luck!
edited 2x

HT4527 My old mac book was backed up to a Time Machine drive. That Macbook is dead. I have a new Mac Mini. How do I get the iTunes library (not just the music files but all other data...playlists, ratings, etc) on the new Mac from my Time Machine?

My old Mac died. I had it backed up to a Time Machine external drive (fortunately). I have a new Mac. I want to get my entire iTunes library from the Time Machine drive to the new Mac. I want not only the music files but all the "library" metadata, playlists, song rankings, unique genre designations. How do I do this?

No backup is a huge mistake.
You can redownload some itunes purchases in some countries:
Downloading past purchases from the App Store ... - Apple - Support

Merge my new MBPr data with old time machine back up

Got a new Macbook Pro retina, can I merge my old data (from my old imac using time machine ) with my new macbook retina data without loosing data from my MBPr?
I used my MBPr during holidays without having the opportunity to restore my backup from my old imac and now I have information/data I do not want to loose. If I just restore my back up from time machine (of my old imac) won't I loose any new information on my MBPr that I have not backed up (e.g iphoto or imovie data) ?
PS: I havent yet backed up my MBPr as I am afraid of overriding my old imacs back up

Put all of your data from your 'old' user into your Shared folder - accessible by any user. Then you can copy it into your new user folder(s) and delete the old user if you wish.
Good luck,
Clinton

How to restore new mac book from time machine

i curentley have a mac book and am planing on upgrading to a pro but i have to sell this one first. can i restore my new mac pro using the time machine backup from this mac book or is there another way i have to do this being as i wont have both laptops at the same time??
thanks for any help..

If you can recover the old machine (may not be worth the cost), then you could deactivate directly. A lot depends on what crashed, the HD, mother board, or other. On a PC, the hard drive can sometimes be recovered with SpinRite as long as the crash was not fatal. There are other tricks too, but all of them depend on the crash conditions and what the problem is. If the hard drive is actually good, maybe you could just put it in another machine and run the deactivation. Of course, not everyone has a bunch of machines on hand to play with. For PCs, I often head to the department surplus pile and see if I can find something to work with (not my stock). If I find a working machine there, then I just swap it out. Of course, that is for work machines. For a home machine, I might do it for testing or repair and then put things back after the repair.

Setting up a new mac lion from time machine backup...how do you do it?

Bought a new macbook pro. Need to install my old disk image to it from Time MAchine. When I tried it...it posted an old backup from 2 years ago...
Help!

Hi Mrs. McD and Welcome to Apple Discussions,
First of all I think you should repost this here:
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=189
That's the Intel iMac forum and you will receive a lot more pertinent information there regarding their experience with the Intel iMacs.
I set up a Mac lab last year at Baker Demonstration School in Wilmette IL. We didn't have your budget so most of our machines are G4 towers with 2 G5 towers and recently 2 iMac G5s. All were donated. So I can't address most of your high end questions. We have been creating a lot of movies mostly using Final Cut Pro and also iMovie.
As to photography I have 2 pro clients who mostly use LightRoom. I personally like Bridge and I think she also uses Photo Mechanic. She originally wanted an iMac but I talked her into a Mac Pro with 2 24" Cinema Monitors. All that extra real estate is very useful for editing photos and also for editing movies. This is pretty much the standard setup. My son edits movies with 4 30" Cinema Displays but he's also doing a lot of rendering.
I've been working with a young pro photographer here in Chicago. We've made a pole attachment for high angle shots and he was recently talking about kite photography.
Actually the IT support guy at the school is also a photographer and I've donated Macs to two photo teachers at the high school level in Chicago so I could ask them.
I agree wholeheartedly about the wireless keyboards and mice. Baker is a preK to middle school and all the keyboards and mice are wired. Less loss. We also use a lot of headphones and have dongles that the phones plug into. This saves wear and tear on the input jack which is easily damaged especially located where it is on the iMacs.
Richard
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New MacBook on old Time Machine backup-creates a new one!

I've read lots of posts on this, but I can't seem to find the anwer to my problem.
I have a Time Machine backup of the last year. However, I just bought a new MacBook Air and I need for Time Machine to inherit this new Mac to my old backup.
I used Migration Assistant to transfer evrything from my old MacBook to the new one.
But when I turned Time Machine on, it starts creating a new backup.
I need it to keep using the backup of my old MacBook.
From what I've have read in other web pages where they show how to's on Time Machine, is that once I bring everything from my old Mac (restore from the Time Machine backup) the only thing I need to do is to plug in Time Machine to my new MacBook and it would start backing up where it left of, but it doesn't happen that way. It creates a new backup file. It has the same computer name but it appends a number "1" to the name to differentiate it from the original.
Please help
Thanks

You should have used Setup Assistant, not Migration Assistant, to transfer your data. I suggest you start over by booting into Recovery, erasing the startup volume, and installing OS X. When you reboot, Setup Assistant will start automatically. Follow the prompt to import data from a Time Machine snapshot. The backup history will then be inherited. The first backup will still be a full one; that can't be avoided.

New Mac, restore from Time Machine

My MacBookPro crashed today- hardware problem and in the process corrupted my email folder- not sure how or why. I bought a new machine and when I restored from Time Machine back-up, discovered that the most recent back-up had the corrupted mail file. Is there any way to go back in time, on a new machine, using a back-up from a different one. In other words, I want to restore from a Time Machine state that is 5 hours previous to the most recent back-up. Hope this makes sense.

yes, you can do it but if you need only Mail then it's simplest to restore just your Mail data rather than reinstalling everything which will take a while.
quit Mail. control-click on TM in the dock and choose "browse other TM disks". scroll back to the time you need and navigate to /Users/username/Library
restore the file /Users/username/Library/preferences/com.apple.mail.plist and the directory /users/username/library/mail to the corresponding locations on your new hard drive (delete the existing items first). start Mail. it will say it needs to import your messages. this actually means reindex. let it do so and you should be back to normal after it's done reindexing.

Get "Licensing for this product has stopped working" error on my New Mac with old Adobe software

hi people, i've recently purchased a new machine and can't work out how to get Illustrator cs3 or photoshop cs5 working on it...
photoshop says "Licensing for this product has stopped working. you cannot use this product at this time. you must repair the problem by uninstalling and then reinstalling this product or contacting your IT administrator or Adobe customer support for help", which is strange as it said some different before i tried asking adobe support about this...
illustrator says the same thing.
customer support said i need to ask here because they can't provide support for these products.

thanks for response, let's start the dialogue.
what OS version?: OS version 10.9.3
Have you deactivated Photoshop on the old machine? No, i am not inclined to try this as i do need a working version for work, customer support tells me that i've purchased a serial key but they won't tell me what it is, just that i could try using it... can't find any reference to this on my machine though:(
On how many computers have you (or someone else) installed Photoshop and register with your license?1 i think..
Have you tried uninstalling, cleaning and re-installing? no, though i've tried to find out how and can't even manage that:( went to the adobe site and could only find their creative cloud thing which requires me to pay monthly:/...
thanks

Using new Mac with old Iphone formerly used with Windows

I had my Iphone synced with a PC that literally burned up unexpectedly. I replaced it with a Mac and want to sync my phone, however, when I click to manage content manually, a message pops up telling me that my phone will be erased (!!). Because I have lots of music and apps on the phone, I don't want to go back to square one. What do I need to do to make the new computer work with my phone?
When I rip music from a CD, I can't drag the album to the phone; I have to copy them manually.
Also, I used to be able to rearrange icons on my phone via Itunes and that doesn't work either with the Mac. I have "authorized" the phone, but it didn't make any difference in anything.

I think you have to reformat the phone for a mac.
This post
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2008294
Tells you how to back it up, then reformat for mac, then restore
from your backup.
Welcome to the other side.

Install an SSD from my old macbook pro into a new one without reformat - time machine problem!

Hi all!
I've bought a new macbook pro 13" 2012 to replace my old macbook pro 2010.
In my old macbook pro 2010 I was using an Sandisk 480 SSD that has everything working and installed, as I sold the old one, I put my hard drive and format it to sell to my friend.
In the new macbook 2012, I soon I receive it, I replace the HDD with my old SSD an everything works normally except some problems that I'm discovering now!
MY new macbook boot without no problems and until now every software that I've testes is working ok! Some of them ask me to register again but all of them is working.
My problems starts with my VPN configuration, the new macbook looses all my VPN connections, but as it wasn't so much (only 6) I'm reconfiguring them as I need it.
My worst problem is happening with time machine backup. When I start my mac with the tima machine disk, it ask me if I want to inherit the old backups and I click to accept it, but the systems spends a lot of time searching for the time machine disk and them shows an error telling that is impossible to write on the disk.
I've checked the disk in disk utility and it's mounted as read/write. But I've tried to create a new directory on the disk and receive an error of operation denied!
What or where should I look to solve this problem?? Thanks!

You can resolve that by installing the 10.6.6 Combo Updater instead of the smaller incremental updater.
+BTW, you should never use a version of OS X that's older than the version that shipped with the computer.+

Want to move an old time machine backup

I'm trying to backup an old drive before it fails.
It has a folder on it with old time machine backups.
My system won't allow me to move that folder.
I get the message "The backup can't be copied because the backup volume doesn't have ownership enabled."
How do I enable ownership or force that file to be backed up?
Thanks.

nowsthetime wrote:
Now I'm stuck with these files taking up space on a drive and no way to get rid of them without wiping the drive. Which is what I'll have to do.
Launch the Terminal app, in the window that pops up, copy & paste in this snippet, follow by adding a space, and then dragging one of those files into the window. Hit the return key and at the Password: prompt, carefully enter your admin password, and hit the return key:
sudo rm
so it looks something like this:
sudo rm /Users/username/Desktop/"name of file"
If that works, then collect the others into a folder and repeat, but use this as the leading part:
sudo rm -R
so it looks something like this:
sudo rm -R /Users/username/Desktop/"name of folder"

Moving to new Mac with time machine

Hi
I'm purchasing a new mac pro soon and i'm wondering if using 'time machine' will enable me to transfer everything to the new mac, with everything 'in place' as it was on the old mac, in other words will i have to re-install my apps? (i certainly hope not)

Yes. I was surprised how easy it was and how well it worked when I migrated from an eMac (PowerPC) to an Intel iMac a few weeks ago. You'll have an even easier time.
Just make sure to use Migration Assistant when you first power on your Mac; when it asks if you want to transfer data from another Mac. Don't click "no" or "later" and then proceed to start from scratch. Using Migration Assistant after your Mac has been set up could lead to a whole bunch of permissions issues.

Installing a new harddrive and using time machine to restore old files

I want to replace the old 250 gig harddrive on my Macbook pro with a new 750 gig one I just purchased. I have made backups with time machine and have heard that after you install Snow leopard on the new drive you can just create your old computer with all the files back in place with the time machine backup you made from the previous drive. Im sure plenty of you have done this I am just wondering how it went and some tips of how to not mess this up. One question I have is do I need to do all the Snow Leopard updates for the system (I think my disc is 10.6.4) , or iTunes,quicktime etc, or will that all be resolved with the time machine restore. Same goes with iLife, should I install iLife first or will that come over with the time machine restore. I think im thinking into this too much but just not sure how this all works. Thanks for your help!

Prepare your new drive:
Drive Preparation
1. Boot from your Snow Leopard Installer Disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu.
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area. If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing. SMART info will not be reported on external drives. Otherwise, click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID (for Intel Macs) or APM (for PPC Macs) then click on the OK button. Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
4. Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
5. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
6. Click on the Erase button. The format process can take up to several hours depending upon the drive size.
7. When completed quit DU and return to the installer. You will have an option appear to restore from a TM backup. You can select that option or you can complete the installation of OS X. Upon completion of the Setup Assistant you can opt to restore from an external drive or a TM backup.
Be sure your TM backup drive is connected and powered up. If all else fails you can always finish the installation and the reboot, then restore from your TM backup using Migration Assistant.

New Mac with old Time Machine

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