Starting over on a corrupt 1TB TC being used on a PPC Mac + Intel MBP
Please Help. What is the best way to "start over" on a 1 TB Time Capsule that I am using for both a PPC (Connected via Ethernet) and an Intel MBP (Talks to TC over Wireless network)?
Please do a numbered step by step if possible. The PPC is running 10.5.8 and the MBP is running Snow Leopard 10.6.7.
Bruce Caucutt wrote:
Pondini... I have done what you said... using the Airport Utlity
Great!
now what are my next steps to do the initial population of the TC for each of the Macs I referenced?
Do I have to partition
No, you can't partition a TC's internal HD, but you don't need to.
or just Do the PPC (my main) with and ethernet connection and then disconnect and reconnect the MBP by Ethernet and do the same thing?
Yes. See #Q1 in [Using Time Machine with a Time Capsule|http://web.me.com/pondini/TimeMachine/TimeCapsule.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum).
In the past I had 2 sparsebundles and 1 "mainfile" I forget its name, but it is gone now. Please advise....
There should be 1 sparse bundle for each Mac, inside a Data folder. That will all be done by Time Machine.
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