The Mac often went to slumber and many times the 'not properly ejected' message pops up. I usually leave it connected and walk away from my MacBook Pro. I have an external drive, a 'Western Digital My Passport for Mac'.
![]() Remount My Passport Mac Often Went![]() Then immediately turn backups off. On the new Mac, set Time Machine to use the same backup drive as before. That’s not always easy because, as TimeMachine will tell you, “backup items cannot be modified.” If you back up to a network (such as a Time Capsule or server), mount the backup volume and look for the Mac’s backup disk image inside. Drag the folder named after the old computer to the terminal window. If the Mac backs up to a local drive, open the backup drive and the Backups.backupdb folder. Type or copy & paste the following command: sudo tmutil inheritbackup and a space. Turn off Time Machine backups – preferably just before you transfer files to the new drive. Thankfully, there’s a betterAssociating a new drive with a Time Machine backup InFact, Time Machine may delete a good part of your backup history (maybeAll of it) to make room for the new drive. Although the original drive may also show inTime Machine this will undoubtedly take a lot of time and space. Everything isBacked up from scratch. Click the terminal window, hit return and type the admin password.Replacing a drive and continuing the same backupWhen you replace a hard drive in a Mac that was backed up with TimeMachine it’s usually considered an entirely new volume. If your computer backs up to a network drive (server or Time Capsule), mount the backup volume and double-click your Mac’s Time Machine backup disk image inside. Mount both the new drive and the Time Machine set. The less your new drive differs from the original the less Time Machine will have to recopy when you back up. This utility makes a clean copy and preserves file ownership & permissions. Read the dmg meme animeOpen the Time Machine set (drive or disk image). You may click the Finder and choose Go – Computer to find the icon. Drag the new hard drive icon to the terminal window. The next backup may take a while as Time Machine compares the new drive to the backup but only the files that differ will be copied.See balancing shared backup drives, Time Machine tips and terminal commands, including the complete list from Apple. Turn on Time Machine and Back Up Now. Eject the Time Machine Backups disk image if you’re using a network backup. For example, the internal drive might be called Macintosh HD or something similar. Drag the folder for the old hard drive to the terminal window. For example, if the backup was called Time Machine Backups and the Mac was called iMac, you would open Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb/iMac/Latest.
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