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<blockquote data-quote="Moe_Syzlak" data-source="post: 1323648" data-attributes="member: 55904"><p>So I thought I should update this in case anyone ever encounters this. I went to the Apple Store last night and got it fixed. In short, the guy who helped me said he had never seen anything like this happen before. Basically, my rudimentary understanding is my old Mac Mini Time Machine program was not backing up the "home folder." So when I went to set up the new machine with Time Machine, the process was working as it was supposed to, but there was no info there. If I entered Time Machine on the old machine it <em>looked </em>as though there were backups. The folders (viewed in Finder) for every backup were there, with all the sub folders, but there was nothing in them. In short, the guy at the Apple Store looked through the Time Machine and concluded it was a software glitch and performed the migration for me for free directly from my old machine. I'm just glad the machine didn't crash at some point previous or I would have lost everything despite thinking I was diligently backing up.</p><p></p><p>Thanks to all for helping me out. Razormac, it seems if I would have had the necessary FW, I likely wouldn't have had any issues following your method. But once I had migrated from an empty Time Machine, the process got a bit more convoluted.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Moe_Syzlak, post: 1323648, member: 55904"] So I thought I should update this in case anyone ever encounters this. I went to the Apple Store last night and got it fixed. In short, the guy who helped me said he had never seen anything like this happen before. Basically, my rudimentary understanding is my old Mac Mini Time Machine program was not backing up the "home folder." So when I went to set up the new machine with Time Machine, the process was working as it was supposed to, but there was no info there. If I entered Time Machine on the old machine it [I]looked [/I]as though there were backups. The folders (viewed in Finder) for every backup were there, with all the sub folders, but there was nothing in them. In short, the guy at the Apple Store looked through the Time Machine and concluded it was a software glitch and performed the migration for me for free directly from my old machine. I'm just glad the machine didn't crash at some point previous or I would have lost everything despite thinking I was diligently backing up. Thanks to all for helping me out. Razormac, it seems if I would have had the necessary FW, I likely wouldn't have had any issues following your method. But once I had migrated from an empty Time Machine, the process got a bit more convoluted. [/QUOTE]
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