I have macports, with many ports installed. I had my harddrive fail, but have a recent timemachine backup. But, when I tried to restore, after a fresh OS install, at first when I clicked transfer, nothing would happen. I finally opened the users that timemachine had selected to restore. Several of these users were listed as "this user data doesn't need to be transferred". When I unselected those it was then willing to do my restore. (I was very nervous for a while!) Those users,also showed as 0kb of data. The names were: avahi,macports, messagebus, and polkituser. I believe that these were all user accounts created by macports. I think that since they are just names, with no data, that is what "confused" timemachine restore. But timemachine should still restore all of macports. My question is what I need to do to get the ports to again function. I assume that macports will not work once my restore is done (still a few hours) since those user accounts will be missing. I know that I could blow away my whole install of macports,but then I will have to rebuild all my ports, which will take a long time, and defeat the purpose of having a backup. So, is it possible to just create those users? If so, what should I do to get them created?
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