I just dragged it to the trash and then emptied the trash. Probably did the wrong thing eh ?
If I reformat the Time Capsule will I lose my WiFi settings or are they separate? And then can I just start over again? On 23/12/2012, at 12:20 PM, Ronni Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote: > 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> Regards, Stephen Chape -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20121223/f6094bf5/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>
