My daughter's iMac just went south (far south) and she needs to work on her files before we can get a new one. She can use my MacBook Air or my Studio desktop rig in the meantime.
How can I get her files from her Time Machine HD onto my Macbook or desktop?
Thanks in advance!
Ed in Brooklyn
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 15.3
Just open Migration Assistant (on the destination Mac) and migrate her user account from the backup to that Mac.
Barney,
I just posted this question about permissions. Any ideas?
My daughter's iMac wnt down and she needs to work on the contents for her job as a professor. I migrated her files from her Time Machine HD to my Mac Studio rig. (Thanks to advice from a Community member!)
Now we can't open those files on my Mac. We get the message that we don't have permissions. How do we get permission?
Thanks in advance for your help!
Ed in Brooklyn.
Worked like a charm! thank you so much!
You need to log into her account that you migrated. You cannot access them from yours (easily). Are you logged into her account?
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