Hi,
I recently ran into problems while attempting to remove a Boot Camp partition on my iMac, so I decided to just reformat and restore from my Time Machine backup disk. The process went relatively well, overall, but I just ran into an interesting problem. I had kept some downloaded MacOS installer versions in my Applications folder , some older versions for use with other machines. I just went to create a USB installer, and to my great surprise, they weren't there!
They were on my Time Machine backup disk, and I was just able to restore them manually. They were the only things missing from the Applications folder. It just seems strange that they wouldn't be restored during the migration process. I suppose Apple decided that we wouldn't need them? It makes me uncomfortable that certain perfectly reasonable things to have stored would be excluded without any notice to the user.
Thanks,
Ben
I recently ran into problems while attempting to remove a Boot Camp partition on my iMac, so I decided to just reformat and restore from my Time Machine backup disk. The process went relatively well, overall, but I just ran into an interesting problem. I had kept some downloaded MacOS installer versions in my Applications folder , some older versions for use with other machines. I just went to create a USB installer, and to my great surprise, they weren't there!
They were on my Time Machine backup disk, and I was just able to restore them manually. They were the only things missing from the Applications folder. It just seems strange that they wouldn't be restored during the migration process. I suppose Apple decided that we wouldn't need them? It makes me uncomfortable that certain perfectly reasonable things to have stored would be excluded without any notice to the user.
Thanks,
Ben
