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, [email protected] 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, [email protected] 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 >>> [email protected] >>> http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk >> > > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
