[Ham-Mac] OS X Time Machine Question on Invisible files and folders

[Lon Kinley]

>I have a dumb question.
>My time machine hard drive didn't recognize my laptop so it's making
>me start over with the backups.
>And it's running out of space.
>I guess I shouldn't have files only on it and have a separate archive 
>of files I really need to save but I have deleted from my mac.
>Any ideas?

How big is your TM drive? It should be at least twice the total 
capacity of your main HD. If your HD is close to full, the TM drive 
should be at least four times the size. There is no such thing as too 
big a backup drive. :)

If you are backing up your laptop on the daily (hourly) schedule, 
there is no reason to archive deleted files. TM has already done that 
for you. That's the purpose of the TM program.

>I don't understand the  "My time machine hard drive didn't recognize 
>my laptop so it's making
me start over with the backups" statement.

Lon