Hi
Following some problems with antivirus software, my University MacBook Pro (Intel) had to be rebuilt. My username as admin had been equivalent to abcdefgh. The engineers who rebuilt it decided, using the standard rebuild of my university, in their wisdom gave me a different admin username, the equivalent of qrstuvwxyz. I had some difficult installing my files as a result but eventually managed it. I used the same password on qrstuvwxyz and abcdefgh.
I can now use the MacBook, except for one very annoying problem. I'd like to recover some files that I'd deleted a year or so ago that I know are still present in earlier TM backups. However, when I open the backup disk in Finder, the system will not allow me to access the pre-build backups and shows them blocked and linked to my old username of abcdefgh.
So I tried try to add an admin account with the old username, but the OS tells me that this account already exists and I've found that I can login to Mac with that previous username and my current & previous password, as well as with the new username.
I'm no techie, but I presume that the new username of qrstuvwxyz and the old one of abcdefgh, though they share the same password, have different numeric IDs in the rebuilt machine.
Please can some tell me how to access the earlier TM backup on the backup disk?
Many thanks
MP
Following some problems with antivirus software, my University MacBook Pro (Intel) had to be rebuilt. My username as admin had been equivalent to abcdefgh. The engineers who rebuilt it decided, using the standard rebuild of my university, in their wisdom gave me a different admin username, the equivalent of qrstuvwxyz. I had some difficult installing my files as a result but eventually managed it. I used the same password on qrstuvwxyz and abcdefgh.
I can now use the MacBook, except for one very annoying problem. I'd like to recover some files that I'd deleted a year or so ago that I know are still present in earlier TM backups. However, when I open the backup disk in Finder, the system will not allow me to access the pre-build backups and shows them blocked and linked to my old username of abcdefgh.
So I tried try to add an admin account with the old username, but the OS tells me that this account already exists and I've found that I can login to Mac with that previous username and my current & previous password, as well as with the new username.
I'm no techie, but I presume that the new username of qrstuvwxyz and the old one of abcdefgh, though they share the same password, have different numeric IDs in the rebuilt machine.
Please can some tell me how to access the earlier TM backup on the backup disk?
Many thanks
MP