Interesting, I was suggested that method by Apple support a few days ago to restore my son’s machine state, but I’m still waiting for the machine to come back from Apple.
Jean-Christophe Helary On Oct 16, 2014, at 12:22, Carl Hoefs <newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu> wrote: > Actually I had tried to do that, but didn’t see how. The TM drive has many > incrementals on it, so dragging my old user account folder from the TM drive > to the new machine wouldn’t be valid, as there isn’t a comprehensive backup > folder to drag. And entering into TM, it shows no backup history for my > account. Did you mean by some other way? > -Carl > > On Oct 15, 2014, at 5:37 PM, Jean-Christophe Helary > <jean.christophe.hel...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Or you can create a new account on the new machine with the same name as the >> old account and drop the stuff that you want in a way that is more selective >> than Migration assistant does. >> >> Jean-Christophe Helary >> >> On Oct 16, 2014, at 9:01, newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu wrote: >> >>> Yeah, I think you're right. Didn't remember having to do that before, but >>> I'll give it a go. >>> Thx! >>> -Carl >>> >>>> I think migration assistant is the trick you're looking for. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> On Oct 15, 2014, at 4:20 PM, newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu wrote: >>>>> >>>>> My iMac died, and I want to "restore" my user account onto a new machine >>>>> from the Time Machine backup I have from the old machine. I don't see >>>>> any >>>>> way to do it. The new machine sees the TM drive, and will use it as a TM >>>>> backup drive, but it doesn't present any way to restore from it. Even >>>>> when >>>>> entering Time Machine it shows nothing to restore although the drive is >>>>> half full of TM backups. >>>>> >>>>> Is there a trick to doing this, or am I out of luck? >>>>> -Carl >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> MacOSX-talk mailing list >>>>> MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com >>>>> http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> MacOSX-talk mailing list >>> MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com >>> http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk >> > _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
