Hi Pete, My personal view is that you might be worrying too much about how evil SMC Fan controller is ;o)
Before I repaired my iMac, after it's HD failure, I ran it for 2 years from an external HD clone - but when I first booted it up the HD fan went rapidly up to full speed - presumably because the iMac was not getting a valid temp signal from the dead HD. So I downloaded SSDFanControl and used it to limit the fan speed to a sensible value - and continued with this for around 2 years until I replaced the HD. However I did satisfy myself (using iStat menus) that internal temperature were OK. Whilst I don't dispute that SMC Fan controller might have played a part in the demise of the MBP - I would suggest that this might be due to "cooking" the innards due to the blocked vents and the fan speed being set too low to counteract this rather than any inherent problem with the software. Don't get me wrong, I quite understand you not wanting to have this software on the new MBP - however, personally I would be quite happy migrating stuff over from the old system and then just doing a final check/clean up to make sure that there is no trace of it left. However, if you really want to avoid any chance of it touching the new computer, one way might be to restore the TM backup to an external drive, then boot from this external drive and satisfy yourself that you have completely removed the curse of SMC Fan controller from the system on the external HD. Once you are happy with that - then migrate over from this "clean" version. Just my thoughts. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: <[email protected]> on behalf of Peter Crisp <[email protected]> Reply-To: WAMUG <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, 27 May 2018 at 20:01 To: WAMUG <[email protected]> Subject: Migration Assistant selective restoration of data Hi, recently I had my son’s MBP fail with what I believe was from his installation of some third party software which was SMC Fan controller. I am in the process of getting myself a replacement Macbook (likely Macbook Air). Before the MBP failed I did actually get it to successfully complete a Time Machine backup BUT this was with the 3rd party software still in place and therefore embedded within the settings. I don’t know where else it may have been located within the file structure, but I want to make sure I do not bring that SMC Fan Controller back into a replacement MBA. During the process of it failing, I managed to mount the HDD via SATA adaptor to another MBP and locate and trash the SMC Fan Controller. I wonder would I be better off trying to selectively drag/drop data from the HDD when mounted via SATA adaptor or would it be more ‘complete’ if I used Migration Assistant to use an Ethernet connection to restore data from the TM backup but carefully select what I restore so as not to bring back the ‘infected’ settings. It is my 14YO son after all and it’s not like he has lots of important data to restore either. Main things I can think of are iTunes library, Photos library. My preference is Migration Assistant for the completeness of how it doe it all. Maybe there is a part MA and part manual drag/drop. Is there some other way I can test the HDD contents in a SATA mounted state and verify before doing the actual migration to a replacement MBA? Regards Pete -- 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> -- 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>
