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2012-12-22 Thread peta belczowski
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Setting Time Capsule up with new iMac ?

2012-12-22 Thread Stephen Chape
Hi folks, At last I have my new iMac. 21.5 inch i7 with 16 GB RAM. Flippin marvellous. I tried setting up with my original Time Capsule but all I got was a message to tell me there is no room for this. I guess it wants to start again because this is a new and different Mac. So I deleted the

Re: Setting Time Capsule up with new iMac ?

2012-12-22 Thread Ronni Brown
Hi Stephen, When you connected your Time Machine backup to your New iMac and opened Time Machine in System Preferences you would have been given the choice to reuse the back up. If you chose Reuse Backup, Time Machine will add on to the existing set of backups. As the message says, then the

Re: Setting Time Capsule up with new iMac ?

2012-12-22 Thread Stephen Chape
I just dragged it to the trash and then emptied the trash. Probably did the wrong thing eh ? If I reformat the Time Capsule will I lose my WiFi settings or are they separate? And then can I just start over again? On 23/12/2012, at 12:20 PM, Ronni Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Stephen, When

Re: Setting Time Capsule up with new iMac ?

2012-12-22 Thread Ronni Brown
Hi Stephen, Reply in Situ. On 23/12/2012, at 12:35 PM, Stephen Chape chap...@bigpond.com wrote: I just dragged it to the trash and then emptied the trash. Probably did the wrong thing eh ? Yes, that is the wrong thing to do. If I reformat the Time Capsule will I lose my WiFi settings or

Re: Setting Time Capsule up with new iMac ?

2012-12-22 Thread Ronda Brown
Stephen, Once the delete process has completed, your Time Capsule will restart and when you go bak in to Disks in Airport Utility you should now see that all of the disk space is available. I should also have mentioned for your first whole system backup that you connect via Ethernet cable to

Re: Setting Time Capsule up with new iMac ?

2012-12-22 Thread Stephen Chape
Thank you Ronni .. seems to be working fine now. Keeping fingers crossed ! On 23/12/2012, at 1:02 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Stephen, Once the delete process has completed, your Time Capsule will restart and when you go bak in to Disks in Airport Utility you should now see that

Re: Setting Time Capsule up with new iMac ?

2012-12-22 Thread Ronda Brown
No reason why TM should not do its job, if you have migrated your Data across correctly and had checked everything was working properly before commencing the first backup of the new iMac. Beautiful machine the new iMacs, worth the wait hey ;-)) My Son-N-Law ordered the new 27-inch and is