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 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. Or, Time Machine may say it's going to do a full backup (and delete a lot of old backups if necessary), and then appear to be backing-up very, very slowly. After a long time, when it doesn't seem anywhere near done, it may complete normally, having actually done only an incremental backup. Just why it does that is not clear. How did you delete the backups you mention below? Cheers, Ronni 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt" 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.8.2 Mountain Lion Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 23/12/2012, at 11:49 AM, Stephen Chape <chap...@bigpond.com> wrote: > 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 largest file from the disk (can't recall it's name but there > were only 2). > It has spent the last 3 hours "cleaning up" with no indication that it is > actually saving. > > Does anyone know what the correct procedure is it get it running with a new > Mac ? > Do I need to re format the drive and start again ? > Will the "cleaning" up finish and then save afterwards ? > > MERRY CHRISTMAS everyone. > And I wish you all a happy new year (when it arrives). > > Regards, > Stephen Chape -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20121223/11efcc41/attachment.htm -- 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>
