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Ethalfrida

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Aug 14, 2022
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My 2009 High Sierra iMac is not available to backup and can’t be found by Time Machine.
And the Apple Chat Rep said they could not recommend a new external due to the ones they sell would not work with it.

Prior to this I used online backup. Now I decided to use Apple options.

Giving it further thought, would backing up the from the old iMac to the new iMac be a good option? If so, how do I do it?

Old iMac
1 TB Storage
600 GB available

New iMac
1 TB Storage
800 GB available
 
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