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Good morning all,
My trusted sidekick (let's just call him MBP) keeled over yesterday and despite the help given by the paramedics at Apple Support, he has to go into hospital for some surgery. Fortunately I had been using Time Machine and had backed up the night before. However, I am faced with a period of not being able to use MBP and am wishing to use my wife's MacPro that has more than sufficient space on her drive (around 1TB), I also have a pre-mountain lion MBP that I could use. So now to my questions;
1) is it possible to use my old MBP and simply hook the TM to it and will I still be able to get mail down?
2) Can I hook my TM up to my wife's machine and segregate my account (she is already using a separate TM back up for her work)
3) When I get my new MBP back can I pick up where I left off.
I have looked at the relevant TM page on Apple Support and it all looks 'Geek' to me with words that are not computing with my elderly grey cell.
Your help and assistance would be gratefully received.
Uncle H
My trusted sidekick (let's just call him MBP) keeled over yesterday and despite the help given by the paramedics at Apple Support, he has to go into hospital for some surgery. Fortunately I had been using Time Machine and had backed up the night before. However, I am faced with a period of not being able to use MBP and am wishing to use my wife's MacPro that has more than sufficient space on her drive (around 1TB), I also have a pre-mountain lion MBP that I could use. So now to my questions;
1) is it possible to use my old MBP and simply hook the TM to it and will I still be able to get mail down?
2) Can I hook my TM up to my wife's machine and segregate my account (she is already using a separate TM back up for her work)
3) When I get my new MBP back can I pick up where I left off.
I have looked at the relevant TM page on Apple Support and it all looks 'Geek' to me with words that are not computing with my elderly grey cell.
Your help and assistance would be gratefully received.
Uncle H