Hello,
First time posting.
I have a backup of my wife's old (and failed) MacBook Pro that we tried to migrate (via migration assistant) to her new iMac, but noticed that some important files (many photos--she is a professional photo editor), did not transfer. We were able to fix the MacBook Pro and are trying to use it to recover the lost photos. To that end, I ran Migration Assistant on a fresh copy of OS 10.12.6. I only restored the settings instead of the entire hard drive (because restoring the entire hard drive on her iMac did not bring back the photos). With the setting restored, the MacBook Pro was able to connect to the old backups. The recognition seems to have happened because I can see the multiple windows in Time Capsule (and move back in time). Time Machine allows me to move back in time about an entire year. The problem is that most of the time I only see the side bar which refreshes fine, with the panels on the right (where folders and files go), appearing entirely blank (which is, obviously, not so fine). The only thing that shows when I click on the items of the side panel are the applications. All My Files, Desktop, Documents, etc. appear blank.
I could restore everything but that is what we did with the iMac, and, while most everything transferred fine, a big collection of professional photos did not.
Can anyone please help me figure this out? I hope I gave enough information. Pardon if I did not.
Thanks!!
First time posting.
I have a backup of my wife's old (and failed) MacBook Pro that we tried to migrate (via migration assistant) to her new iMac, but noticed that some important files (many photos--she is a professional photo editor), did not transfer. We were able to fix the MacBook Pro and are trying to use it to recover the lost photos. To that end, I ran Migration Assistant on a fresh copy of OS 10.12.6. I only restored the settings instead of the entire hard drive (because restoring the entire hard drive on her iMac did not bring back the photos). With the setting restored, the MacBook Pro was able to connect to the old backups. The recognition seems to have happened because I can see the multiple windows in Time Capsule (and move back in time). Time Machine allows me to move back in time about an entire year. The problem is that most of the time I only see the side bar which refreshes fine, with the panels on the right (where folders and files go), appearing entirely blank (which is, obviously, not so fine). The only thing that shows when I click on the items of the side panel are the applications. All My Files, Desktop, Documents, etc. appear blank.
I could restore everything but that is what we did with the iMac, and, while most everything transferred fine, a big collection of professional photos did not.
Can anyone please help me figure this out? I hope I gave enough information. Pardon if I did not.
Thanks!!