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Hi folks,
Thought I would ask questions *first* before messing myself up.
Bought a new MacBook Air earlier in the summer. Was ambivalent about migrating *everything* from my old MacBook via TM on a partitioned external HD. Mostly forgot about the issue and just started using my new toy.
Old mac runs Snow Leopard, I think. It was having annoying issues that made it act like a Windows machine (slow, freezing, lots of beachballs, chrome having seizures, etc.). TM is up to date from that computer and has never touched the new one - no BU yet on the new machine running OX 10.10.4.
So. Now that migration would be a pain because I've got a few months of use on the new machine, I'm really missing my full iTunes library and I'm not sure the best way to transfer it. I also want to set up a new TM, but I'm scared of losing access to TM files from the old machine.
Will TM let browse and select what I want or am I trying to use it for something it isn't really meant do? If I plug in my external HD, is TM going to automatically write to the HD instead of reading it? I've seen some people online having problems with retrieving data from the old machine after doing this and I'd like to avoid that.
Thanks for your help,
DImitra
Thought I would ask questions *first* before messing myself up.
Bought a new MacBook Air earlier in the summer. Was ambivalent about migrating *everything* from my old MacBook via TM on a partitioned external HD. Mostly forgot about the issue and just started using my new toy.
Old mac runs Snow Leopard, I think. It was having annoying issues that made it act like a Windows machine (slow, freezing, lots of beachballs, chrome having seizures, etc.). TM is up to date from that computer and has never touched the new one - no BU yet on the new machine running OX 10.10.4.
So. Now that migration would be a pain because I've got a few months of use on the new machine, I'm really missing my full iTunes library and I'm not sure the best way to transfer it. I also want to set up a new TM, but I'm scared of losing access to TM files from the old machine.
Will TM let browse and select what I want or am I trying to use it for something it isn't really meant do? If I plug in my external HD, is TM going to automatically write to the HD instead of reading it? I've seen some people online having problems with retrieving data from the old machine after doing this and I'd like to avoid that.
Thanks for your help,
DImitra