Time Machine Restore Problems
I’m restoring a complete home directory from a crashed disk onto a new Mac via Time Machine. Unfortunately it seems Time Machine is not smart enough to just replace the “beth” directory with the “beth” directory, or “Desktop” with “Desktop”, or “Pictures” with “Pictures”, and so forth. It would be nice if it could do a smart merge, or somehow made it easier to do a complete restore instead of a file-by-file restore.
Hmm, that didn’t work at all. The permission are all mucked up, probably because the user has two different UIDs on the two systems. really Time Machine should be smart enough to account for that. Time to try a full system restore instead.
