Thank you, he sure was helpful, I went from 240 GB to 290 GB free space! But I know the day will come that I’m missing something important.
I can of course do a complete restore from timemachine, but then I’ll lose a few weeks of work. I’d much rather know what exactly he deleted, so I can put it back.
In this case.
- Buy another external hard drive
- Install macOS onto said HDD
- Restore your Time Machine Backup to said HDD
- Restart and boot off your SSD
- Download and install
Freefilesync then open it
- Set your home folder on your SSD on the right and home folder on your restored drive on the left (you'll see a bar labeled "Drag & Drop" just drag each home folder to each side)
- Click Compare (you'll probably get an error accessing some files just ignore and click the box to apply to all)
- Once the compare is complete. You'll see a list of files to be added or modified. You can go through the list and make sure it all looks right. If you want in the left hand "overview" pane. You can right click and exclude the "Library" to cut the list way down.
- Make sure the button "Syncronize" is labeled "Two Way"
- Once you are sure the list looks right click "Syncronize". Once it is done anything missing from your SSD should hopefully be restored. If not you may need to Sync other folders in the same fashion.
Be sure you sync like for like folders. If you tried to do two mismatching folders. You'd see end up with a mess if you actually synced. So, Home to Home.