Switching macs

[pquerner]

I got a new iMac, and I changed to the new iMac via help of migration assistent (which copies over my programs and other data).
When I enter "mackup backup" now, I get the following error:

Error: Unable to find the storage folder: /$absent_volume/342D0A2D-4B8B-3BB5-97AF-08FE4455C63A/Users/pq/Google Drive

How can I fix that? Maybe reinstall mackup completely?

[stvhwrd]

What is the content of your ~/.mackup.cfg?

[pquerner]

Old mac (now using it again, ...)

[storage]
engine = google_drive

New Mac

[storage]
engine = google_drive

[stvhwrd]

Hmmm... Nothing special there. I was hoping there'd be something obvious like an environment variable or a hardcoded value.

Have you verified that the directory is available on your computer? Like ~/Google Drive/Mackup has been synced by Backup and Sync from Google?

[stvhwrd]

You mentioned reinstalling Mackup - have you tried that? Assuming you used Homebrew:

brew reinstall mackup

[pquerner]

Is it possible to change the engine afterwards? I see some .plist files being symlinked to a Google Drive folder, which I no longer want use for syncing.

[stvhwrd]

Yup. Change your configuration file and save it, then restart mackup and run ‘mackup backup’

[lra]

I suggest you run mackup uninstall before switching engines, so it unlink all the linked files it knows about.