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johnlove

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Original poster
Nov 29, 2011
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Hi …

Here I go again with a monumentally stupid question …

Okay, I have placed on my HD a pristine Yosemite system after erasing the HD.

Okay, now I want to copy over all my gazillion apps, documents, etc from my Mavericks HD.

Sounds like a job for Migration Assistant.

If I select my Time Machine Drive (which looks like the following)

Backups.backupdb
John's iMac
2014-10-19-2231467
Macintosh HD
2014-10-19-233353
LaCie External HD
Macintosh HD
Latest (alias)

good ole Migration Assistant gives me TWO “Latest Backups, I GUESS because of the Symbolic Alias “Latest”.

The “Latest” is, in fact, the one 2nd-to-last in the above graphic.


BUT, I do NOT want the backup called “LaCie”, I want “Macintosh HD” and Migration Assistant does NOT provide me that choice.

ONE MORE THING … will Migration Assistant NOT recognize disk images and only real Hard Drives, like the one holding a CCC/SuperDuper Clone.

I’m getting a darn headache.

Why can I NOT just use the contents of CCC/SuperDuper disk image and copy its contents over ONLY WHEN the date stamp on the CCC/SuperDuper file on the source is GREATER THAN the date stamp of file on the destination.

Sort of like Migration Assistant, but with CCC/SuperDuper instead.

JOHN LOVE
 
I know the above is really long ... but I REALLY need some help on this one ... Time Machine is not really any fun for me.
 
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