Just be patient and do not try to do this via wifi: use a direct Ethernet connection. So the long and short of it? It’s a great way to configure a new computer if you have a Time Machine system set up. Wait, please, how are you going to use this?Ĭlick “Go” and your computer will restart and hopefully look exactly like your original desktop on your old computer. Next up is Apple inviting you to register your computer with their central customer database. Well, I guess we are using Time Machine, so maybe I shouldn’t be surprised when we roll backwards in time after all? 🙂įinally, by George, I think we’ve finished the restore! Suddenly it moved to the next stage and the time estimate, uh, changed a bit: Those time estimates? Yeah, well, they’re estimates… You’ll be looking at it for rather a while… Now you’ll see the following cheery, smiling Mac transfer window: Now we’re getting somewhere! Select what you want to have restored onto the new Mac and once everything has been calculated size-wise, it’ll enable the “Transfer” button. This is where the wireless connect stunk: two hours after seeing the previous progress bar, it was still spinning, which is why I restarted and tried again with a direct wire connection between the computer and Time Capsule device!Ĭonnected directly it should only be a few minutes before you see:
Enter that correctly and you can proceed by again clicking on the “Connect” button. It’s a little weird, but since it’s connected directly, you don’t need to enter a “name”, just the password. I restarted and this time when I got to the same prompt, I made the same choice, but had already hooked my Mac up to the Time Capsule via a direct Ethernet wire.Īnd it’ll be time to click on “Continue” to proceed: Bad mistake since I was going to be restoring hundreds of gigabytes of data (iTunes libraries, Document archives, etc). I chose “from a Time Machine backup” and then made the mistake of connecting to the unit via my wireless network. So when I got my new MacBook Pro, I got the first chance to test out restoring from Time Machine… Having said that, I don’t really like the fancy “time tunnel” interface to get to Time Machine backups, especially from a computer other than the one you’ve backed up, but fortunately there are now third-party alternative apps that make this quite a bit easier to do: go to and search for “time machine” to see what I mean. It’s a winner in my book and I have had to restore files from it more than once. I’ve been holding on to this question for a while now, waiting for a new computer of my own because I too have a Time Capsule and have been using Time Machine for quite a while now to have reliable and invisible backups of my different Mac systems.
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