Re: How to exclude certain folders from home directory during a Migration Assistant restore from Time Machine - and, how to restore Mail via Time Machine

2015-04-02 Thread Kevin Callahan
Sent from my iPad Air On Apr 2, 2015, at 11:45 AM, Macs R We macs...@macsrwe.com wrote: Everybody's familiar with how to open up a finder window, go to Time Machine, and restore files into it. But there is a less-known mode of time machine which is more Baroque (but cool), in which you

Re: How to exclude certain folders from home directory during a Migration Assistant restore from Time Machine - and, how to restore Mail via Time Machine

2015-04-02 Thread Macs R We
Well, I’ve learned never to make promises that Time Machine won’t faceplant when you try to do something it’s supposed to be able to do, but it’s supposed to work. On Apr 2, 2015, at 12:46 PM, Kevin Callahan kc...@mac.com wrote: Sent from my iPad Air On Apr 2, 2015, at 11:45 AM, Macs R

How to exclude certain folders from home directory during a Migration Assistant restore from Time Machine - and, how to restore Mail via Time Machine

2015-04-02 Thread Kevin Callahan
A friend has a MBPro with a 500 GB internal drive. He had about 16GB of free space and as the machine was not running well, he decided to move his Pictures and Movies folders to a 1T external drive freeing up 90 GB of space on his internal drive. He backed up his internal drive and the

Re: How to exclude certain folders from home directory during a Migration Assistant restore from Time Machine - and, how to restore Mail via Time Machine

2015-04-02 Thread Macs R We
Everybody's familiar with how to open up a finder window, go to Time Machine, and restore files into it. But there is a less-known mode of time machine which is more Baroque (but cool), in which you go into an actual application, like Mail or iPhoto, and ask it to restore its contents from a

Re: How to exclude certain folders from home directory during a Migration Assistant restore from Time Machine - and, how to restore Mail via Time Machine

2015-04-02 Thread Kevin Callahan
On Apr 2, 2015, at 9:53 AM, Kevin Callahan kc...@icloud.com wrote: Sent from my iPhone 5S On Apr 2, 2015, at 9:28 AM, Kevin Callahan kc...@mac.com wrote: A friend has a MBPro with a 500 GB internal drive. He had about 16GB of free space and as the machine was not running well, he