Howdy
Following on from the previous thread about our dead hard drive problems, we
had installed a smaller 250 GB SDD.
Thus until we have the original 2TB hard dive replaced, we need to operate from
a smaller file/folder set.
I've read that creating a new user and then copy /paste select folders to that
user from the Time Machine backup will cause permission/ownership issues,
therefore we are better of using Migration Assistant. ie
Applications>Utilities>Migration Assistant
My first look at Migration Assistant saids that we can select what to transfer
over ie which Users and which folders.
migration assistant says to select from the following:
Applications 28 GB
User 1 9.8 GB
User 2 93 GB
User 3 628 MB
user 4 335 GB - ( this is the one we want to keep going) consists of
Library 35 GB
docs 23 GB
music 7.6 GB
Pics 248 GB
other data 20mb
User 5 30 GB
User 6 20 GB
User 7 116 GB
Other Files and Folders 2.38 GB
Computer and Network setting 39MB
- we are particularly keen and getting Sticky Notes over for one User 4 (
normally kept in Users/Library/stickies database - but is not visible on the
Time Machine backup - there is no User>Library folder) along with Work folder,
Email, Contacts
What would be the minimum folders to migrate over ?
What happens if we only do a partial migration ?
Hope the above make sense.
chow
gary dorn
gd...@mac.com
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