Retrieve Time Machine files from Tiger machine

Hi,
My Leopard machine is broken and being fixed. I have borrowed a Tiger machine, and desperately need to get a couple of files off my Time Machine backup drive. When I plug the drive in to the borrowed machine I can't see anything.
Any ideas how to do this?
Many thanks,
Chris

Waverider wrote:
Hi,
My Leopard machine is broken and being fixed. I have borrowed a Tiger machine, and desperately need to get a couple of files off my Time Machine backup drive. When I plug the drive in to the borrowed machine I can't see anything.
You should be able to do it. I've done it and it worked. was the TM drive directly attached or was it a network backup? with a directly attached backup you should be able to open the TM drive in finder and copy what you need using finder. all TM backups are kept inside backups.backupdb folder.
Any ideas how to do this?
Many thanks,
Chris

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