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 <[email protected]> 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, [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
