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Using time Machine With New Computer But Not A Complete Restore
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<blockquote data-quote="PGB1" data-source="post: 1914485" data-attributes="member: 76746"><p>Thank You all for your advice. Time Machine is worth doing properly for me- Mister File Wrecker. Time Machine & VueScan are my two favorite & most reliable applications. Neither has ever needed a "What went wrong now?" intervention from me.</p><p></p><p>Bob asked "how newer?" of an OS. After lots of thought & study of <em>date-to-obsolete</em> and used equipment prices, I'll most likely wait until I can a new computer with the newest OS so it can last longer before becoming unsafe or obsolete. The current leaning is toward MacBook Air M2 with an external monitor.</p><p></p><p>After reading, looking at HDD type drives to use for Time Machine on the new computer revealed they are much less expensive than I thought. There's need to budget for the computer, a hub, cables, adapters & a monitor. Adding a new Time Machine drive isn't the "Master Card Melter" that I thought it was going to be.</p><p></p><p>I will, as Jake suggested, keep the files on the existing Time Machine drive instead of trying to use it on the new computer while unsuccessfully attempting to keep the old files.</p><p></p><p>This makes much more sense than my plan. The old computer will stay in use for many months as I discover files that have to be opened on that computer & converted for use on the new. The conversion often wrecks the file. Having the existing Time Machine drive on the old computer will be important. (Example: TurboCAD .tc3 files have to be converted to a different file type, such as DXF or DWG. The conversion's often a train wreck.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PGB1, post: 1914485, member: 76746"] Thank You all for your advice. Time Machine is worth doing properly for me- Mister File Wrecker. Time Machine & VueScan are my two favorite & most reliable applications. Neither has ever needed a "What went wrong now?" intervention from me. Bob asked "how newer?" of an OS. After lots of thought & study of [I]date-to-obsolete[/I] and used equipment prices, I'll most likely wait until I can a new computer with the newest OS so it can last longer before becoming unsafe or obsolete. The current leaning is toward MacBook Air M2 with an external monitor. After reading, looking at HDD type drives to use for Time Machine on the new computer revealed they are much less expensive than I thought. There's need to budget for the computer, a hub, cables, adapters & a monitor. Adding a new Time Machine drive isn't the "Master Card Melter" that I thought it was going to be. I will, as Jake suggested, keep the files on the existing Time Machine drive instead of trying to use it on the new computer while unsuccessfully attempting to keep the old files. This makes much more sense than my plan. The old computer will stay in use for many months as I discover files that have to be opened on that computer & converted for use on the new. The conversion often wrecks the file. Having the existing Time Machine drive on the old computer will be important. (Example: TurboCAD .tc3 files have to be converted to a different file type, such as DXF or DWG. The conversion's often a train wreck.) [/QUOTE]
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