How to do a clean file transfer with time machine?

[Abimanyu]

How do I transfer my files, email, documents and photos library, from a time machine back up driver, onto a new Mojave install without using system restore or migration assistant?

Background info: My 2012 MacBook Pro has been system tested at the Genius Bar and all tested fine, no hardware issues. I have been having a large number of kernel and other system errors identified in the Console. My apps don’t open, I get kicked out of my iCloud account and I cannot sign back in, WiFi disconnects periodically etc etc.

I tried system restore, which resulted on the same issues transferring back in.
I tried a clean install and then migration assistant, with the same result that the same issues transferred back in.

How Do I transfer docs, pics, email without using migration assistant and not run into sync issues after I open photos and email? (Photos are in iCloud) Can I enter time machine from a new clean Mojave install and recover specific files and folders this way?

Is there a ways of using migration assistant so that errors do not transfer over?

These are some of the console errors:
SecKeychainBackupWithChanges: no journal file, skipping BackupBagV0-tomb
nw_protocol_boringssl_get_output_frames(1301) <private>[0x7ff3ffeb3e30]
get output frames failed, state 8196
Sandbox: cloudd(309) deny(1) mach-lookup com.apple.tccd.system
Couldn't write value for key
Couldn't find metadata for operation 1F16E4C4DC6061C9
rejecting write of key
Etc, etc etc…

Thanks!

 

[kohlson]

You need what is sometimes referred to as a "clean install." Fresh installs of the OS and apps .

All your data files are in the home directory. You can copy them to another six, and then copy onto your MP after installing OS and apps.

Consider this. Yes, it's hard. But if you bought a new system, you would still have to do this.