Cloning a 512GB Mac time machine backup to a 240GB SSD ?

[soamz]

Hi, I have a 2013 late Retina Mac which is 512GB SSD.
I have taken its Time Machine Backup.

I have a 2012 Retina iMac, where I installed a brand new 240GB SSD.

Now, I need to restore my Retina MacbookPro Time Machine to this new SSD of iMac.

But it says, no space left .

What to do ?
IS there a way to restore ?

 

[maflynn]

With Time Machine you can choose what folders to restore, so pick and choose what you want to bring over onto the smaller SSD.

You can do this outside of TM as well,
Mount the TM volume,
Then mount the sparse image,
Then navigate to the latest backup and drag over what you want

 

[soamz]

I actually needed my dropbox folder and my complete applications, emails, settings, apps and their settings and data.

Is there a way, I can only migrate Apps and app data from the time machine to this ?

 

[Meister]

I had an obtruse solution in mind myself.
Listen to Maflynn.

 

[maflynn]

I actually needed my dropbox folder and my complete applications, emails, settings, apps and their settings and data.

Is there a way, I can only migrate Apps and app data from the time machine to this ?

Yes, select them in the TM restore process.

 

[Meister]

I actually needed my dropbox folder and my complete applications, emails, settings, apps and their settings and data.

Is there a way, I can only migrate Apps and app data from the time machine to this ?

That is where my soltuion might be more staight forward:
Restore to an external drive that is large enough.
Than sort your files and move what you need to your iMac.

 

[soamz]

I have installed a fresh copy of yosemite to the iMac now.

So, now connect the time machine backup drive and next where to go and start ?

All I need is my apps and app data.

 

[Meister]

Have you done what we told you so far?

 

[soamz]

I installed a clean copy of Yosemite.

Then went to Utilities > MIGRATION Assistant > Restore From Time Machine

Then it asked me, what I want to restore.

I selected, APPLICATIONS, COMPUTER SETTINGS.

I did not select the DATA AND FILES, as I dont need them.


Then it ran for 15 mins or so, showing, "COPYING APPLICATION FOLDER..."

Then after that, the computer get restarted and shows error screen on startup.

Then I click a button and it again restarts and I dont see anything restored.

Tried 2 times already.

 

[dyt1983]

edit: To remove personally identifying info not relevant to the conversation.

 

[soamz]

I did that again and again the same problem.

IT restarts with error!
What to do ?

 

[phpmaven]

I did that again and again the same problem.

IT restarts with error!
What to do ?

Install a fresh copy of Yosemite and reinstall your apps and migrate any docs and data over manually. Obviously a lot more work, but you will end up with a much better result this way.