My 2006 black Macbook running 10.6.8 broke, and I ordered parts to repair it. I thought it was a hinge and a few parts but the logic board is toast, so I'm just going to scrap it. I had a 500 gig HD in an optibay and booted from a 120 gig SSD both are working fine in an external enclosure on my Core 2 Duo iMac running 10.6.8.
Luckily I was running Time Machine on the MB and have about 7 backups of both drives. I needed space and in a jam so I deleted a bunch of folders containing large files, knowing that one of the old backups still had them on there (they are there) and then allowed Time Machine to backup a few times with that data missing.
Now I'm in even more of a bind because I need to free up space on my external drive I was using for Time Machine.
I just want to merge the backups into one without loosing my data. For the life of me I can't do it, and I haven't found anything helpful online. If only I was using 10.7 and had the merge option..
I downloaded Big Mean Folder Machine and an app named Folder Merge and thought I had found a solution, but it only looks at the file names and not the file size or info, so it "merges" 2 folders together by just renaming the duplicates when it combines them... I'm right back where I started.
I don't have access to any machine running more than 10.6.8. or a PC which is down as well. How the heck do I merge these together?!?!
Thanks so much as always!
Luckily I was running Time Machine on the MB and have about 7 backups of both drives. I needed space and in a jam so I deleted a bunch of folders containing large files, knowing that one of the old backups still had them on there (they are there) and then allowed Time Machine to backup a few times with that data missing.
Now I'm in even more of a bind because I need to free up space on my external drive I was using for Time Machine.
I just want to merge the backups into one without loosing my data. For the life of me I can't do it, and I haven't found anything helpful online. If only I was using 10.7 and had the merge option..
I downloaded Big Mean Folder Machine and an app named Folder Merge and thought I had found a solution, but it only looks at the file names and not the file size or info, so it "merges" 2 folders together by just renaming the duplicates when it combines them... I'm right back where I started.
I don't have access to any machine running more than 10.6.8. or a PC which is down as well. How the heck do I merge these together?!?!
Thanks so much as always!