Not really sure whether this should be in this forum or the MacBook Air forum or both, but I'll start here and see what happens.
A couple of weeks ago, my MacBook Air started behaving oddly, with the spinning coloured wheel appearing in various programs meaning I had to force quit, particularly with the Finder. Also, the machine refused to shut down properly, meaning I had to force it to do so using the power button.
I dropped it in to my Apple Service Centre, who speculated on a hard disk problem. After checking it thoroughly, they concluded it wasn't a hardware fault, and returned it to me suggesting that I do a clean install of Snow Leopard and then restore all data from my Time Capsule.
The clean install went fine, and to speed things up I decided not to restore data at this stage. Once the machine was up and running, I entered Time Machine to go back to the previous backup and restore everything that way. There was no previous backup shown for this machine. Thinking that the clean install might have changed the machine's name (and hence Time Capsule might be seeing it as a new machine) I went into System Preferences and Sharing and changed it a couple of times. Whatever name I chose "[my name]'s MacBook Air", "MacBook Air" or "Mac Book Air", no previous backups showed.
I then changed tack, and launched Migration Assistant to restore from Time Capsule that way. This offered two options: "[my name]'s Computer" (my older MacBook Pro) or "MacBook Air" (which could have been a backup attempted by the machine since the clean install or the original Air backups). Whenever I selected "MacBook Air", the spinning coloured wheel appeared and the program stopped responding. In the end, I selected "[my name]'s Computer" and opted for a full restore, as this would give me everything except about 18 months' worth of non-MobileMe emails, minor documents and IM chats.
In fact, it didn't restore properly just the programs. I had to manually set up Mail, change my Safari settings and re-import my documents via Dropbox.
I now have everything mission-critical, but I'm missing four years' worth of minor documents, non-MobileMe emails, IM chats and my iTunes music from the Air. This is frustrating, since all this data is stored about two feet away from me on Time Capsule, but I can't access it. Nor will the Air backup now, producing an error message that says "The backup disk image '/Volumes/Data-1/[my name]'s MacBook Air.sparsebundle' is already in use".
How do I get to my data on Time Capsule now? Is there any easy way to see what's on there and retrieve it?
A couple of weeks ago, my MacBook Air started behaving oddly, with the spinning coloured wheel appearing in various programs meaning I had to force quit, particularly with the Finder. Also, the machine refused to shut down properly, meaning I had to force it to do so using the power button.
I dropped it in to my Apple Service Centre, who speculated on a hard disk problem. After checking it thoroughly, they concluded it wasn't a hardware fault, and returned it to me suggesting that I do a clean install of Snow Leopard and then restore all data from my Time Capsule.
The clean install went fine, and to speed things up I decided not to restore data at this stage. Once the machine was up and running, I entered Time Machine to go back to the previous backup and restore everything that way. There was no previous backup shown for this machine. Thinking that the clean install might have changed the machine's name (and hence Time Capsule might be seeing it as a new machine) I went into System Preferences and Sharing and changed it a couple of times. Whatever name I chose "[my name]'s MacBook Air", "MacBook Air" or "Mac Book Air", no previous backups showed.
I then changed tack, and launched Migration Assistant to restore from Time Capsule that way. This offered two options: "[my name]'s Computer" (my older MacBook Pro) or "MacBook Air" (which could have been a backup attempted by the machine since the clean install or the original Air backups). Whenever I selected "MacBook Air", the spinning coloured wheel appeared and the program stopped responding. In the end, I selected "[my name]'s Computer" and opted for a full restore, as this would give me everything except about 18 months' worth of non-MobileMe emails, minor documents and IM chats.
In fact, it didn't restore properly just the programs. I had to manually set up Mail, change my Safari settings and re-import my documents via Dropbox.
I now have everything mission-critical, but I'm missing four years' worth of minor documents, non-MobileMe emails, IM chats and my iTunes music from the Air. This is frustrating, since all this data is stored about two feet away from me on Time Capsule, but I can't access it. Nor will the Air backup now, producing an error message that says "The backup disk image '/Volumes/Data-1/[my name]'s MacBook Air.sparsebundle' is already in use".
How do I get to my data on Time Capsule now? Is there any easy way to see what's on there and retrieve it?