I had mentioned recently how easy it was to do a restore from TimeMachine to your computer, or another disk. I have done this several times and it's almost magical BUT it will NOT work when trying to restore from an older iMac with Snow Leopard to a new MacPro. UGH, this was a hard lesson to learn.
I had a 12 core MacPro Server that I wanted to move to an ordinary Mac, reformatted the hard drive and tried to install the Snow Leopard disk, it would not read it so I made an appointment with the Genius Bar. Seems some of the MacPro drives would not read a few of the Snow Leopard disk, of course I had one. They were kind enough to go ahead and install Lion on the drive from their server, I bought the thumb drive with Lion on it. Once home I hooked up the TimeMachine drive to the MacPro and did a restore. Took a long time, but would not complete and when checking the drive none of my files were really there, it also had created a Recovered HD whick I could boot from since my drive 1 was unusable. In doing lots of checking and 45 min. with Apple support I find the restore had scrambled my Disk 1, so I booted to this recovered HD and ask to restore and NOW I was told that I could not use as this backup was made with an older Mac and could not be used to restore to this new machine. I wish it had told me before!! Reformatted drive 1 again, reinstalled Lion and now am dragging and dropping all the files, applications, etc. This is sure a LOT harder than using TimeMachine but there are instances when it can't be done. Thought I would pass along my struggles. John _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected] http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
