UPGRADED MY TIMECAPSULE

Hi, Ive recently sold my 500GB TimeCapsule to a 1TB TimeCapsule & i obviously have to wipe my 500GB TC for the person who has bought it but I am really confused if I wipe it,where or how can i save all my 500GB Backups too? as i am giving my TC away tomorrow but wont have my 1TB TC delivered until wednesday.
A friend said ,all I have to do is "go to my Finder" then click on my TC ,then drag the file (the little white piece of paper with a hardrive icon inside it,called my TCsparsebudle in the backups folder to my desktop but I only have a 120GB internal hardrive on my Macbook & my backups on my TC are 298GB used out of 500GB, so I cant think how to do this? Ive googled & searched this forum but cannot find any information how i can sort this out.
If anyone can help me out I will be so grateful as I am really stuck as what to do as I do not wanna lose my backups,I had a problem with the 1st 500GB TC I bought,Apple replaced it for me as for some strange reason it only had 145gigs backedup & I had a msg saying my TC was full???? then it completely deleted my entire backups & I lost over a years worth of really important data & photos ,the lot, I was gutted,so Apple replaced it for a new 500GB which has been fine for 18 months BUT I don't ever wanna lose my backups again.
Please help,many thanks

spiritlevel wrote:
Thankyou for your reply , my friend is going to lend me his portable 500GB portable hardrive,which has not been used yet & mac compatible ,BUT, can you guide me as to how i copy?
Do i copy the folder with the sparseBundle file in it OR do i copy just the white little piece of paper with the hardrive icon on it &
I would just copy the "sparsebundle" file.
Do i drag & drop it onto the portable hardrive or do I open it & right click to copy it
Just drag the "sparsebundle" file from the Time Capsule's volume to the volume icon of the external drive.
THEN .How do I get it back onto the new 1TB TimeCapsule
Mount the "Data" volume of the new Time Capsule and the external drive. Open the external drive. You should see the "sparsebundle" file in the external drive window. Drag the "sparsebundle" file from the external drive window onto the icon for the "Data" volume.

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regards,
Marc

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I saw your previous post about ichat and Skype freezing after a short time in use. I have the exact same problem, the same way you described it.
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Message was edited by: SwitcherZed

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