Wolfki wrote:
Hmmm, it's never a good sign when your problem is new.
Yup. 😟
When I go into star wars mode I can see the folder I want in the user folders. THat should mean it would show up when trying to migrate them in, but something weird is happening.
Yup, again. But at least they're visible on the backups, and Repair Disk said they're ok.
What kind of Mac was the old one, and how old? Was it running Snow Leopard? What kind is the new one? If it's not new, is it running Snow Leopard or Lion? I assume the old one either isn't available, or no longer has your data on it?
Do you have access to an external HD with at least the amount of space as was used on the old Mac? If so, depending on the setup of the old Mac, it's possible you can do a full system restore from those backups to an empty drive, then migrate the missing account(s) from that.
The other workaround will be quite tedious. You'll have to create 3 user accounts to correspond to the ones on the backups, then use the "Star Wars" display to selectively restore things from their home folders. You can't restore an entire home folder, or even the default sub-folders (Desktop, Documents, Pictures, etc.) that way, as they're protected. You'd have to restore the contents of each sub-folder, and the ~/Library folder is even harder, as some of the contents are in use while doing the restore.
