Thanks for the response. And Sorry Ronni. I was concerned that I might import the app or file that corrupted NC previously. I’m going to use migration assistant and hope that doesn’t happen Happy New Year Marcus Marcus Harris mob: [+61] 0417965618 CRYPTODOME P.O. Box 7135 Shenton Park Western Australia 6008 Australia
> On 23 Dec 2016, at 7:56 am, Peter Hinchliffe <[email protected]> > wrote: > > >> On 22 Dec 2016, at 5:19 pm, Marcus F Harris <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Hi, After a long WAMUG correspondence trying to fix an issue with >> Notification Centre which did not work after the upgrade to Sierra from El >> Capitan, I erased my iMac 27 HD with Disk Utility. >> >> Then I went away on holiday with my laptop and returned this week to my iMac >> 27,which used to hold all my files. >> The iMac 27 now operates well with Sierra OS 10.121.2 and with just the >> basic applications installed with thee reset. >> >> However with the new setup every new file went straight to iCloud Drive. >> >> I turned off iCloud Drive and there's a new Documents folder in Finder. >> That’s fine but I need to recover those backed up. >> ALSO, where is the iMac 27 HD disk image, I expected that to appear on the >> desktop? > > Sierra boasts a new feature called iCloud Documents an Desktop, which > synchronises all the files on your Desktop and your Documents Folder (there’s > no choice here) to iCloud, the idea being that all of those files become > available to all of your other devices. It is turned on by default in a new > Sierra installation, s when you first run Sierra it copies all of yourt > candidate files up to iCloud Drive and deletes them from your computer. Fine > if you have less that 5Gb of files, and you don’t use iCloud Drive for > anything else. My documents Folder contains well over 700Gb of files created > over many years of activity, so I was very careful to make sure I turned this > feature off before running Sierra for the first time. > > There are quite a few articles out on the web which deal with the position in > which you now find yourself, Just a couple can be found at > > http://daringfireball.net/linked/2016/09/24/marshall-desktop-documents > <http://daringfireball.net/linked/2016/09/24/marshall-desktop-documents> > > and > > http://www.howtogeek.com/273629/how-to-restore-your-desktop-and-documents-after-disabling-icloud-sync-in-macos-sierra/ > > <http://www.howtogeek.com/273629/how-to-restore-your-desktop-and-documents-after-disabling-icloud-sync-in-macos-sierra/> > > First thing to do, therefore, is to turn iCloud Drive back on, and you will > find all your documents in place is specific folders. The above articles > contain tips on how to restore things to the way they were. You will then be > able to turn iCloud Documents and Desktop off and never bother it again. > >> >> Otherwise what do I really need to reinstall from the backup. > > Following a clean install of Sierra (which is essentiall wehat you have) you > cam use Migration Assistant (in /Applications/Utilities) to "restore from a > Time Machine Disk”. This will bring everything back painlessly, but in your > new Sierra environment (ie, you won’t revert to the previous OS). > > > All the best, > > > Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer Services > FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer > Perth, Western Australia > Phone (618) 9332 6482 Mob 0403 046 948 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
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