Not sure what's going on...I had a current, and up to date Time Machine back up of my iMac. It's one of the few that had a faulty Seagate drive that Apple sent out a replacement notice for. I brought it in...had the drive replaced (Apple Store)...brought it home, plugged in my Time Machine drive. It booted in to a "Test User" config. I deleted Test User...put myself on as the Admin. Went to Migration assistant...and even though my drive is showing mounted on my desktop (my TM drive)...in M/A, it isn't an option to restore from as a Time Machine restore option. (as in, it doesn't show up as an "option" to back up from)
Any ideas? Any way to manually migrate my files over?
That's another weird thing...my T/M HDD is an external Western Digital 1TB portable (USB 2.0). When I go in to the drive...and enter the "Back Up" file, when I open the "User" file (mine)...all of my documents, music, pics, etc...have a little Red Negative in front of them and when I click on them it says I don't have permission to access!!!! I'm bewildered. Pretty technically inclined...and these iMacs are used solely as business machines. We run an audio/video production company...we do mainly weddings, corporate and private parties, and different events that require audio, video, or other technical help with their production...Six iMacs in total. 3-2011 i5 (21.5") and 3-2010 i5 (21.5"), all with internal 1TB drives and matching libraries. It won't be too difficult to just connect two iMacs together and "Migrate" from one of the others (The HDD consists of mainly music, SFX, and other "audio" related items. In fact, that's 98% of it and is approximately 820GB of material that NEEDS to be on the internal!). Our Video, when we record to the machines is offloaded via FW800 to Studio drives (only on stationary cameras, obviously...the others are recorded to their own media). IOW, no 'video' per se that lives on the drive. ALL audio, ALL on the T/M backup and I can't get to it!!!!
This is driving me nuts!
The other computers are pretty much 'the same' with different playlists created on each for different events that computer may have been a part of. Not a big deal...the music is all the same, as are the SFX, etc.
Is it wiser for me to just use FW800 between two computers and restore that way? I (obviously) don't have a Lion disc, as I downloaded from the MS and my MBAs were already installed with the OS when I received them. So no disc to hold down Ctrl-R and restore that way.
I'm lost!!
DO I just hook the two iMacs together with FW800...booting up the iMac that NEEDS the HDD refilled first to desktop...then, holding T on the Target Mac on boot up? From there, do I just again, attempt to use Migration assistant to back up the computer?
I thought Time Machine was supposed to be soooo simple!!!!
Thanks for any insight...and believe me, I've searched FAR and WIDE the interwebs for an answer
I promise!
Jer
Any ideas? Any way to manually migrate my files over?
That's another weird thing...my T/M HDD is an external Western Digital 1TB portable (USB 2.0). When I go in to the drive...and enter the "Back Up" file, when I open the "User" file (mine)...all of my documents, music, pics, etc...have a little Red Negative in front of them and when I click on them it says I don't have permission to access!!!! I'm bewildered. Pretty technically inclined...and these iMacs are used solely as business machines. We run an audio/video production company...we do mainly weddings, corporate and private parties, and different events that require audio, video, or other technical help with their production...Six iMacs in total. 3-2011 i5 (21.5") and 3-2010 i5 (21.5"), all with internal 1TB drives and matching libraries. It won't be too difficult to just connect two iMacs together and "Migrate" from one of the others (The HDD consists of mainly music, SFX, and other "audio" related items. In fact, that's 98% of it and is approximately 820GB of material that NEEDS to be on the internal!). Our Video, when we record to the machines is offloaded via FW800 to Studio drives (only on stationary cameras, obviously...the others are recorded to their own media). IOW, no 'video' per se that lives on the drive. ALL audio, ALL on the T/M backup and I can't get to it!!!!
This is driving me nuts!
The other computers are pretty much 'the same' with different playlists created on each for different events that computer may have been a part of. Not a big deal...the music is all the same, as are the SFX, etc.
Is it wiser for me to just use FW800 between two computers and restore that way? I (obviously) don't have a Lion disc, as I downloaded from the MS and my MBAs were already installed with the OS when I received them. So no disc to hold down Ctrl-R and restore that way.
I'm lost!!
DO I just hook the two iMacs together with FW800...booting up the iMac that NEEDS the HDD refilled first to desktop...then, holding T on the Target Mac on boot up? From there, do I just again, attempt to use Migration assistant to back up the computer?
I thought Time Machine was supposed to be soooo simple!!!!
Thanks for any insight...and believe me, I've searched FAR and WIDE the interwebs for an answer
I promise!Jer