I always make sure that’s the case, as it eliminates a whole passel of extra grief that TM can throw at you.
As for the “many incrementals” issue, remember the magic of hard links. Yes, an old file is dumped only once, but every “incremental” made since has a hard link to the original backup image of that file in the proper position in that folder, so it’s true that if you drag a folder from the latest incremental, you will get ALL the files as of that time. On Oct 15, 2014, at 8:30 PM, Carl Hoefs <newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu> wrote: > Hmm. Perhaps such a method would work if the new user account on the new > machine not only has the same username but the same user id number as the > old, ex. 401. I didn’t check that; maybe that is what TM is keying off of in > order to associate the current user with its backups? > -Carl > > On Oct 15, 2014, at 8:26 PM, Jean-Christophe Helary > <jean.christophe.hel...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Interesting, I was suggested that method by Apple support a few days ago to >> restore my son’s machine state, but I’m still waiting for the machine to >> come back from Apple. >> >> Jean-Christophe Helary >> >> On Oct 16, 2014, at 12:22, Carl Hoefs <newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu> wrote: >> >>> 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 >>> <jean.christophe.hel...@gmail.com> 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, newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu 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, 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 >>>> >>> >> > _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
