Had a bit of a tragedy last week with my MacBook Pro and assorted hard drives (amongst many other things) being stolen whilst on holiday in paris. I had my iTunes and iPhoto library on one of the external hard drives which was stolen; many years of precious photographs and music. Luckily I had backed up both the macbook and external Hardrive via time machine not long before I left. My question is when I restore my MacBook Pro from the TM back up (initially onto a spare MacBook Air until I buy a new pro) how do I also restore the previously attached external iTunes / iPhoto Hardrive backup?
Is it as simple as attaching a new empty HD to the air and when I restore from the TM backup it will treat the attached HD as if it was the previously attached iTunes / iPhoto HD (even if it's got a different 'name') and place the relevant files on it?
Probably not explained myself that well but I hope you get the gist of my query; any help very gratefully recieved, want to get this whole incident behind me now......
Is it as simple as attaching a new empty HD to the air and when I restore from the TM backup it will treat the attached HD as if it was the previously attached iTunes / iPhoto HD (even if it's got a different 'name') and place the relevant files on it?
Probably not explained myself that well but I hope you get the gist of my query; any help very gratefully recieved, want to get this whole incident behind me now......
