Well done Peter! The new drive will help you sort things out for you Time Capsule and besides will be useful afterwards for future upgrades when you want to make a clone.
You are exactly right about the formatting. Make sure you use a GUID partition table and the Mac OS Extended (Journaled) file system. Good luck! Carlo --- Carlo Margio Real World Computing mob: +61 404 296 965 i...@realworldcomputing.com.au www.realworldcomputing.com.au On 20/08/2012, at 5:04 PM, Peter Crisp <petercr...@westnet.com.au> wrote: > Ok, thanks again for this Carlo. I've ebay'd a 1TB external drive so I have > the space to do the operations below. It will probably arrive with FAT > formatting. I presume I will need to reformat the new drive to OS Journaled > so it can accomodate the sparsebundle files (>4GB). Is this right? > > > The rest should be straight forward. > > I'll revert either way with success or otherwise. > > Regards > > Pete > > On 08/08/2012, at 9:04 AM, "wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au" > <wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au> wrote: > >> The nice formatting of the previous was removed at the news group server so >> I will repost just the bullet points of the previous email... >> >> >> * Obtain an external drive with enough space to store the two sparse bundles >> you wish to keep. >> >> * Turn off all Time Machine back up from al the computers in your house. >> >> * Move the two good sparse bundles to an external drive for safe keeping. >> >> * Erase the Time Capsule using Airport Utility ( knowledge base article link >> http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4522?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US ) >> >> * At this point try to backup the new install of your 9yo's computer to Time >> Capsule. There should be nothing stopping it now. >> >> (post back if it does not work) >> >> * Copy back the other two sparse bundles to Time Capsule >> >> * Check that the existing computers are still associated with their newly >> reinstate sparse bundle >> >> (if not post back) >> >> >> C >> >> On 08/08/2012, at 8:57 AM, wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote: >> >>> Hi Pete, >>> >>> Just to wrap up this thread I'll summarise where we left things. It seems >>> the existing Time Capsule sparse bundle associated with you 9yo's MacBook >>> refuses to budge. In the end Time Capsule is an independent computer with >>> its own permissions and accounts. Apple attempts to keep these permissions >>> synchronised but there can be slip-ups. > -- 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> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- 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> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
