You can look at the user id that the system has assigned to your account with: ls -ln -Carl
On Oct 15, 2014, at 9:00 PM, Jean-Christophe Helary <[email protected]> wrote: > How do you make sure the user id is the same ? > > Jean-Christophe Helary > > On Oct 16, 2014, at 12:40, Carl Hoefs <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Yes, very good point! I had forgotten the whole “trick” about TM as Apple >> promoted it originally was that it used hard links, and thus saved >> tremendously on hard disk space. Certainly this is something I will try out! >> -Carl >> >> On Oct 15, 2014, at 8:36 PM, Macs R We <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> 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 <[email protected]> >>> 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 >>>> <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> >>>>> 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 >>>>>> <[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
