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<blockquote data-quote="hempomatic" data-source="post: 1900402" data-attributes="member: 335450">It does, and thanks for your input Jake.&nbsp; That puts be between a rock and a hard place however, since the back up with the majority of my music is on a 2 or 3 year old Time machine back-up which isn't even recognized by Catalina. It simply doesn't appear in Finder at all.&nbsp; On my sister's old MacBook Air running El Capitan, it's there however.&nbsp; The OLD computer that is self destructing lists Time Capsule, the new machine, also running Catalina does not. Finder preferences are identical.&nbsp; I'm able to boot to the old machine from an old bootable super duper back-up, but data transfer is painfully slow, literally hours to transfer a JPEG file so even if I COULD access the back-up (I can not, it's password protected), it would take months to transfer 200 gig of music.&nbsp; Then I have the pictures to transfer.&nbsp; There doesn't appear to be any path to simply restore the older computer using Time Machine. I understand, this is all user error.&nbsp; The problem is, I have no idea what happened or how to resolve it.&nbsp; Live and learn. It's water under the bridge. I give up. If I could simply restore the time machine to the new computer, that would solve everything.&nbsp; I thought that's what it was there for. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤔" title="Thinking face&nbsp; &nbsp; :thinking:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.5/png/unicode/64/1f914.png" data-shortname=":thinking:" /> Going forward, I guess I'm going to have to come up with another plan to back up my stuff.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="hempomatic, post: 1900402, member: 335450"] It does, and thanks for your input Jake. That puts be between a rock and a hard place however, since the back up with the majority of my music is on a 2 or 3 year old Time machine back-up which isn't even recognized by Catalina. It simply doesn't appear in Finder at all. On my sister's old MacBook Air running El Capitan, it's there however. The OLD computer that is self destructing lists Time Capsule, the new machine, also running Catalina does not. Finder preferences are identical. I'm able to boot to the old machine from an old bootable super duper back-up, but data transfer is painfully slow, literally hours to transfer a JPEG file so even if I COULD access the back-up (I can not, it's password protected), it would take months to transfer 200 gig of music. Then I have the pictures to transfer. There doesn't appear to be any path to simply restore the older computer using Time Machine. I understand, this is all user error. The problem is, I have no idea what happened or how to resolve it. Live and learn. It's water under the bridge. I give up. If I could simply restore the time machine to the new computer, that would solve everything. I thought that's what it was there for. 🤔 Going forward, I guess I'm going to have to come up with another plan to back up my stuff. [/QUOTE]

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