Hello,
My mavericks machine is an iMac from 2008. My 10.8 machine is a MBP from 2008.
I've never used time machine before.
I dove headfirst into mavericks on my iMac and have not enjoyed my experience.
Every morning when I wake up I have to open activitiy monitor(actually I just always leave it open) and kill system stats and mds. (perhaps i am doing something wrong, but i digress)
I've never done time machine backups before and I've never had a reason to 'unupgrade' my os, so I left myself in a situation that I didn't prepare for.
What I think I can do is backup both my laptop(10.8) and my iMac(10.9) to time machine then restore my iMac to the backup of my laptop.
If there is a problem I would restore my iMac from its own time machine.
Is this really as simple as it sounds? Will this work like I think it will? Are there any pitfalls I need to look out for? What if my iMac was 2013, would it still work?
I realize that I am essentially deleting my entire iMac, but almost everything is identical on the two computers as far as software goes(my MBP has a few more apps which I would love to utilize on my iMac). Also, nearly 100% of my work files are always on a pocket hard drive.
I appreciate any input and advice.
Thanks!
j
My mavericks machine is an iMac from 2008. My 10.8 machine is a MBP from 2008.
I've never used time machine before.
I dove headfirst into mavericks on my iMac and have not enjoyed my experience.
Every morning when I wake up I have to open activitiy monitor(actually I just always leave it open) and kill system stats and mds. (perhaps i am doing something wrong, but i digress)
I've never done time machine backups before and I've never had a reason to 'unupgrade' my os, so I left myself in a situation that I didn't prepare for.
What I think I can do is backup both my laptop(10.8) and my iMac(10.9) to time machine then restore my iMac to the backup of my laptop.
If there is a problem I would restore my iMac from its own time machine.
Is this really as simple as it sounds? Will this work like I think it will? Are there any pitfalls I need to look out for? What if my iMac was 2013, would it still work?
I realize that I am essentially deleting my entire iMac, but almost everything is identical on the two computers as far as software goes(my MBP has a few more apps which I would love to utilize on my iMac). Also, nearly 100% of my work files are always on a pocket hard drive.
I appreciate any input and advice.
Thanks!
j