Re: Restore new mac from old Time Machine b.up

Ronni, Neil DanielYou guys are clever!!!Thanks a lot for your help and advicecheersBlittoOn 04/02/2010, at 2:23 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: If you will forgive me replying to my own email: It occurs to me that: The obvious way to do this was with the Set-up assistant on the new machine, or with

Restore new mac from old Time Machine b.up

Hi I'm trying to restore a students account ontonew macbook using the students external HD time machine backup (that backed up the old macbook which is kaput). Both Migration Assistant and the original mac setup program fail to recognise the time

Re: Restore new mac from old Time Machine b.up

On 04/02/2010, at 11:54 AM, rb...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi I'm trying to restore a students account ontonew macbook using the students external HD time machine backup (that backed up the old macbook which is kaput). Both Migration Assistant and the original mac setup program fail to

Re: Restore new mac from old Time Machine b.up

Hi Ronni Rod, I¹m not 100% sure on this ­ so please forgive me if I¹ve got hold of the wrong end of the stick! From Rod¹s email he wants to restore all a students accounts info from the Time machine backup of the students old macbook (which is dead) to a new macbook. I would have thought

Re: Restore new mac from old Time Machine b.up

Hi Neil, Yes, on reading Blitto's email again I notice the difference in OS X ... 10.5 on an earlier model MacBook to 10.6 on a new MacBook. The Time Machine Backup was done on a different computer, so NO Blitto, you won't be able to use the Time Machine to Restore to the New MacBook. Check my

Re: Restore new mac from old Time Machine b.up

Hi Rod If the Hard Drive is still fine (and just the rest of the laptop is dead) then you could pull the drive out of the old laptop, throw it into an external 2.5 SATA case and you could then use this to Migrate the data from the old drive to the new drive. Just another thought. Kind Regards

Re: Restore new mac from old Time Machine b.up

If you will forgive me replying to my own email: It occurs to me that: * The obvious way to do this was with the Set-up assistant on the new machine, or with migration assistant later. * Rod tried this first, but ran into problems ­ he wonders if the problem is restoring from 10.5 system to a