Roni, Just reading this post and I am going to buy a imac . I have Macbook pro prismo OS 9.2, what will be my method of transfering info from MBP to imac? Appreciate your thoughts
John Sent from my iPad On 30/05/2011, at 10:56 PM, Ronda Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote: > Hi Tom, > > On 30/05/2011, at 9:03 PM, tom samson wrote: > >> >> 1. We have just transferred data to a new imac from a macbook. Time machine >> saves the backups as the name of the macbook not the new iMac. How do we >> change this? > > How did you transfer from the old MacBook to the New iMac? Did you use > Migration Assistant & transfer everything over? > > If you did a complete Transfer using Migration Assistant. > When you first connected the TM Backup Drive & opened System Preferences > > Time Machine you would have received a message asking > > “Would you like to reuse the back “/Volumes/<Backup Volume > Name>/Backups.backupdb/<Old Computer Name>” with this computer? > The backup was created on a different computer. If you reuse this backup it > can no longer be used by the original computer” > > Did you select to “Reuse Backup”? > > NOTE: > Time Machine keeps each Mac's backups completely separate from the backups of > every other Mac. This is done not by computer name (which you can change via > System Preferences > Sharing), but by each Mac's "Media Access Control > address" (or MAC Address), which is embedded in the hardware on the logic > board, and cannot be changed. > > Clicking on “Reuse Backup” does all the MAC address fix-up while clicking > “Create New Backup” will result in a new Time Machine database being created. > > If you choose Reuse Backup, Time Machine will "add on" to the existing set of > backups. As the message says, then the original Mac cannot continue to back > up to the same set of backups. > However, the first backup may still be a full backup of the new Mac, not an > incremental one. > >> >> 2. Can anyone out there tell me the cheapest price they have found for 4GB >> of Ram DDR2 for the new machine- that is one stick so that I can take iMac >> to its max 6gb >> tom Samson > > > Cheers, > Ronni > > 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt" > 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD > > OS X 10.6.7 Snow Leopard > Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
