I had two notebooks and swapped their HD's. My external Time Machine Backup does not recognize the old drive, in the new notebook as it's place to "backup". How do I force Time Machine to make the Backup on the external drive, without starting an entirely new backup?
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Time Machine and Switching Main Drive
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Dunno about forcing it ... sorry.
Any reason why starting an entirely new backup ( aka by erasing that partition and then pointing time machine to it ) is such a bad idea?
I like to start over periodically to make sure I have a fresh new complete backup.
Unfortunately, I have other computers backed up to the same external, so wiping it clean isn't really an option. The other reason is that the drive is nearly at capacity, and I rely on Time Machine just to delete the oldest backup to write new data.