Hello. After several full OS time machine restores that would not boot up (restore says successful and has to restart, then upon restart I get the no symbol with occasional flashing apple logo), I thought about doing a clean OS install then restoring from time machine.
my question is how complete is the restore using this method. I would choose every option there is as far as what get restored. I have and audio video engineering setup and I have a lot of symlinks and thus related directory designations within my apps (logic, final cut) that I would want to be retained. So if I did a clean install would a time machine restore after that, restore all of my customizations in finder and within apps?
also, after the clean install, would just selecting the entire contents of the root of my Mac OS hd in the time machine backup I want to restore from, and then restoring that to my hd with the clean install be more complete?
thanks in advance,
Shawn
my question is how complete is the restore using this method. I would choose every option there is as far as what get restored. I have and audio video engineering setup and I have a lot of symlinks and thus related directory designations within my apps (logic, final cut) that I would want to be retained. So if I did a clean install would a time machine restore after that, restore all of my customizations in finder and within apps?
also, after the clean install, would just selecting the entire contents of the root of my Mac OS hd in the time machine backup I want to restore from, and then restoring that to my hd with the clean install be more complete?
thanks in advance,
Shawn