Hmm. Perhaps such a method would work if the new user account on the new machine not only has the same username but the same user id number as the old, ex. 401. I didn’t check that; maybe that is what TM is keying off of in order to associate the current user with its backups? -Carl
On Oct 15, 2014, at 8:26 PM, Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.hel...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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
