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Using time Machine With New Computer But Not A Complete Restore
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1914445" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>If you are stepping from the 2007 MBP in your profile, running 10.6.8, to a new Mac with M1 and Monterey, the answer is "no." The old backup drive format and the format of the backup files are changed significantly. The drive will be reformatted by TM, erasing everything on it, to prep it for use with your new system. </p><p></p><p>If you want to keep those old files, I would suggest a new drive for the backups. You can keep the older backups and access them through Finder to recover older files from the dated backups. But TM won't open those files and cannot exist on the same drive because the old system used HFS format and TM now requires APFS. </p><p></p><p>If that is not the set of machines, let us know what the old and new are and we can address that for you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1914445, member: 396914"] If you are stepping from the 2007 MBP in your profile, running 10.6.8, to a new Mac with M1 and Monterey, the answer is "no." The old backup drive format and the format of the backup files are changed significantly. The drive will be reformatted by TM, erasing everything on it, to prep it for use with your new system. If you want to keep those old files, I would suggest a new drive for the backups. You can keep the older backups and access them through Finder to recover older files from the dated backups. But TM won't open those files and cannot exist on the same drive because the old system used HFS format and TM now requires APFS. If that is not the set of machines, let us know what the old and new are and we can address that for you. [/QUOTE]
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