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I'm currently backing up using WD My Book World network drive that supports Apple Time Machine.

I would like to copy some files from my old laptop backup. However, my old backup isn't showing when you browse the time machine network drive, only the currently used machine is listed (I know there are 3 different backups).

How can I access those files not belonging to the currently used laptop?

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Try using the migration assistant, from utilities, and point it to the shared drive where you keep your time machine backups.

@Baloo: I think it asks you during the process, but don't quote me on that. Either way it shouldn't over-write, so you can restore a big chunk, and just delete it later.

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Great, this works for restoring complete set of files and users. But isn't there a way to access the mount as any other share? Or copy specific files instead of adding a new user with whole directories of files – baloo May 18 '10 at 20:23
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I can easily browse TimeMachine files using WinSCP (GUI SSH/SFTP client) from a Windows machine, so there should be no reason you can't do it from the Mac using something similar.

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