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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