Baptize your Mac to make it work with TimeMachine
Posted: December 5th, 2008 | Author: Panos Karageorgakis | Filed under: Apple, Mac OS X | Tags: mac, time machine | No Comments »Yesterday I got myself a new MacBook, hooked it up with the iMac and used the Migration Assistant Utility to transfer data from my main computer. Then I turned TimeMachine on and chose my TimeCapsule as the destination drive, but I got the message that “Time Machine cannot create the disk image” (not a verbatim copy, may differ slightly).
Hm, first I checked disk space but there’s enough space in the Capsule to hold the image. I rebooted, updated software, reboot but still nothing. Then it occured to me; I checked out the computer’s name in the “Sharing” tab in the Preferences app, and saw that it was blank! After giving it a name and initiating a backup, it worked.
Of course I had given a name to the MacBook, but I guess either the initial configuration or the Migration Assistant did something wrong.