Thanks Sam, I was away and offline when you posted, but I'm going to try it. If I can make it all right, it will be a wonderful saving, and I expect many others will bless you for it..
Ranulph On 5 Oct 2014, at 14:47, Sam - MacAmbulance <i...@macambulance.co.uk> wrote: > Hi Ranulph > > You can inherit the old backup sparsebundle with the MacBook Air using the > command line tmutil. Click the Time Capsule in a Finder window > Connect to > its share called Data > you should see a .sparsebundle file. Open > Applications > Utilities > Terminal > type in > > sudo tmutil inheritbackup > > Then drag that .sparsebundle image into the terminal window and push return. > Type your password and hopefully it shouldn't come back with any errors. If > you just get a blank line after pushing return that means it all went through > ok. > > Regards > > Sam > > > MacAmbulance Ltd. > Providing Affordable Mac/PC Support and Web Development > > Sam Mullen ACMT > +44 (0)7747778022 > i...@macambulance.co.uk > www.macambulance.co.uk > MacAmbulance Ltd. is a registered company in England & Wales, registration > number 8466597 > This email is intended solely for the addressed recipients and may contain > privileged or confidential information. If you have received this email in > error please notify the sender and delete the email immediately. > > On 5 Oct 2014, at 14:41, Ranulph Glanville <ranu...@mac.com> wrote: > >> I have a question that may be of help to several members concerning time >> machine and migrate assistant (and this is not about some very ambiguous >> wording). >> >> I migrated an air book to a new air book. The old one renamed itself air >> book 2, The ew one becomes air book, or air book 1 >> >> I have a full back u of my air book on my time machine. But it seems that >> neither the old nor the new machine sees this bcd up, so I have a time >> capsule with a large file I can't see or use. >> >> It would be ice to use it. I'd like the history, but most of all I'd like >> not to waste disc space, or the terrible time it will take to do a new back >> up from scratch. (At least the migration was via thunderbolt, and was fast). >> >> Is there anything I can do? Do I have to throw everything away and >> initialise the time capsule disc again? >> >> Thanks for any advice. >> >> Ranulph >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to smug+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send an email to smug@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to smug+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to smug@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to smug+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to smug@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
