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Hi,
I am trying to get some work done while my personal mac is in the shop, but need an application that I only have on the mac that's in the shop.
I'm trying to run the application off of the time machine backup of the machine that is in the shop.
However, when I look in the time machine back up, it shows a lot of my files and folders as aliases. Not everything is an alias, but a lot of things are.
This doesn't look anything like what I think it should.
Does this look right?
http://media.arstechnica.com/reviews/os/mac-os-x-10-5.media/time-machine-expanded.png
On my backup, it shows most of the internal folders as aliases:
http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/9878/picture1hp0.png
I can open the aliased folders though, (in this case, applications) and get this:
http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3338/picture2zs4.png
Finally, when I open a application's folder, I get a mix of real and aliased folders:
http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/982/picture3ca4.png
Some things work, and others don't.
Time machine is sort of tied to the machine it is backed up with, right?
Is the issue that I am not connected to the orignal machine where the backup came from?
And if that issue can be solved, is there a way to move files on the time machine backup to a different computer?
And what is time machine really, in terms of a "backup"?
Is there a "master copy" of all my files and folders hidden somewhere on the drive?
Thank's for any and all help.
-ST-
I am trying to get some work done while my personal mac is in the shop, but need an application that I only have on the mac that's in the shop.
I'm trying to run the application off of the time machine backup of the machine that is in the shop.
However, when I look in the time machine back up, it shows a lot of my files and folders as aliases. Not everything is an alias, but a lot of things are.
This doesn't look anything like what I think it should.
Does this look right?
http://media.arstechnica.com/reviews/os/mac-os-x-10-5.media/time-machine-expanded.png
On my backup, it shows most of the internal folders as aliases:
http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/9878/picture1hp0.png
I can open the aliased folders though, (in this case, applications) and get this:
http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3338/picture2zs4.png
Finally, when I open a application's folder, I get a mix of real and aliased folders:
http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/982/picture3ca4.png
Some things work, and others don't.
Time machine is sort of tied to the machine it is backed up with, right?
Is the issue that I am not connected to the orignal machine where the backup came from?
And if that issue can be solved, is there a way to move files on the time machine backup to a different computer?
And what is time machine really, in terms of a "backup"?
Is there a "master copy" of all my files and folders hidden somewhere on the drive?
Thank's for any and all help.
-ST-