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Aug 27, 2008
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Hi there.

Im running an '11 MBP with 120GB system drive and a 500GB second 'Optibay' drive for my documents.

When I installed the 2nd drive I moved my user account to the 2nd drive using this tutorial - http://chris.pirillo.com/how-to-move-the-home-folder-in-os-x-and-why/

All good, all fine.. Until now when I start playing around.

For some reason I decided to format the 2nd drive, thinking it would be an easy process to restore just the data... not the system. I was wrong.

I cannot now log into my normal account, as Im gathering it now cannot find the home folder.

To restore. Can I simply log into another account and copy the Time Machine backup of that folder to the formatted drive?
 
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