This will work, but Migration Assistant is easier. 1. Make sure no account on new machine with same name.
2. Plug in TM drive and manually copy the home directory to /Users. 3. Create new user with right name and answer yes to the question about using the existing home directory. neil The three kinds of stress…nuclear, cooking and a&&hole. Jello is the key to the relationship. > On Oct 15, 2014, at 19:20, 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
