Thanks you Pen, I’ve finally gotten to my Time Capsule/Time Machine to erase the disk. It is now doing its first backup on this new iMac.
Pen, Following your advise which never lead to any choice to verify or erase as described in the link to Apple. It did get me to check Disk Utility and see that my Time Capsule had the latest update. So something else was wrong. But at this point I thought I knew enough to call Apple again and explain and/or understand what they were trying to explain to me. Called Apple regarding my previous (July 3) Care ID. The first person eventually passed me to her supervisor who eventually passed me to a Time Capsule expert. After 51 minutes on the call finally solved the problem. In the Finder side Bar I needed to have Shared showing. And there it was - my Airport Time Capsule. And clicking on that allowed me to delete the “old” iMac’s disk and erase the “new” so I now had an empty 2 TB HD for backup. Currently it has backed up 28.10GB of 1.20 TB. Obviously this will take a while. GREAT! Anne > On Jul 6, 2017, at 9:45 AM, Pen Helm <pen-...@earthlink.net> wrote: > > The drive is not showing up because it's a Time Capsule (attached to her > AirPort, not her Mac.) > Here is how to do it: > https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202174 > >> On Jul 5, 2017, at 9:52 PM, John Robinson <profilecoven...@icloud.com> wrote: >> >> Thanks Jonathan, I didn't know the drive didn't have to be visible, the day >> has been a success, I've had another lesson. >> >> John >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>> On Jul 5, 2017, at 9:41 PM, Jonathan Fletcher <li...@fletcherdata.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Ann (and John), >>> >>> Disk Utility does not need the drives to be visible on the desktop to work >>> with them. They can even be worked with when unmounted, but they do need to >>> be connected. I would try disconnecting the drive and reconnecting it to >>> see if it will show up in Disk Utility. Everything should show up there all >>> the time if it can recognize it. There might be something wrong with the >>> drive, or it may just need to be reconnected. If that doesn’t work, restart >>> the machine with the drive connected. >>> >>> There will be one or more files on the drive visible in Finder if it has >>> anything Time-Machine-y on it, is mounted correctly and is working >>> normally. >>> >>> I would reformat the drive and start over with your Time Machine regimen. >>> If the drive then gives you ANY more problems e-cycle it and get a new one. >>> Life’s too precious to waste it with misbehaving electronic devices. >>> >>> Jonathan >>> >>> >>> >>>> On Jul 5, 2017, at 9:31 PM, John Robinson <profilecoven...@icloud.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> If you have everything checked as I do then It looks like it would show up >>>> on your desktop, where DiskUtility needs to see it to format. >>> >>> -- >>> Jonathan Fletcher >>> jonat...@fletcherdata.com >>> >>> Kentuckiana FileMaker Developers Group >>> Next Meeting: 7/25/17 >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> MacGroup mailing list >>> Posting address: MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu >>> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/macgroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu/> >>> Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacGroup mailing list >> Posting address: MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu >> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/macgroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu/> >> Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/> > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > Posting address: MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu > Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/macgroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu/> > Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/> _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list Posting address: MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/macgroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu/> Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
