I have a time machine back up of my old mac with lion. Has all my pictures data etc. is it safe/ recommended to restore that back up on my new mac with mountain lion? Don't have too much experience with this and a google search just gives me features of time machine. Thanks in advance I really want my music and photos back .
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Time machine back up question
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Yes it is safe to either restore manually or use the Migration Assistant.
Time Machine FAQ
Migration Assistant / Setup Assistant information:
Time Machine FAQ
Migration Assistant / Setup Assistant information:
Setting-up a new Mac from an old one, its Backups, or a PC
which includes:
which includes:
- Using Setup Assistant on Snow Leopard or Leopard
- Using Setup Assistant on Lion
- Using Migration Assistant on Snow Leopard or Leopard
- Using Migration Assistant on Lion
- Transferring files from one User Account to another
- Transferring Home Folders not on a Startup volume
- Transferring Applications
- Problems after using Migration Assistant
I'm not sure what year/model the new machine is, but if it is new there is a good likelihood the version of Lion on the backup will not support your new computer and a restore will not work.
To just get the data, and not the OS (which a restore would do), you could just use Migration Assistant to get the data off. The problem there is it sounds like you already setup an account on the new machine (?), and if you use Migration Assistant to import the old account data it can cause duplicate accounts of the same name and a big mess.
Have you already setup an account on the new machine and if so is it named the same as the old machine's account?
You might be better off manually moving the data in from the old backup.
Thank you for your responses I'm going from an 07 Mac mini to the latest 12. So I think migration assistant is what I want not a full on back up restore . I will give it a shot later.