Q: How do I find my files after a TC restore using Migration Assistant?
How do I find my TC backup?
My difficulties started with my MacBook Pro going totally dead. Took it to the Apple Store, where they identified a problem with the RAM. They fixed it, and also reinstalled Lion, but without my applications - Pages, iPhoto, my documents etc.
When I got back home, I used Migration Assistant, which I found in Utilities, connected to the Time Capsule with an Ethernet cable, and it said at the end that it had transferred all my info. During the process I had to create another ID. I added a "1" to my old id, of course...easiest thing to do....and then I changed the Login procedure so I could switch to that user ID. I'm not sure that worked, because when my MacBook Pro went to sleep, I found the original icon, rather than the one for the name1 name. So that may be part of the problem, but I don't know.
Anyway, then I entered Time Machine, but all that is there is the last few days/hours of activity.
I don't know much about computers, but I think that the new name1 user ID and the restored data may be linked somewhere and if I could just find it perhaps this would get resolved.
I can see the applications now, but when I look for, for example, Pages documents, there is nothing there. Ditto for iPhoto. For iPhoto I also tried file>import, which brought in some old files from MobileMe, but not the photos I had on my MacBook.
I would prefer not to have the name/name1 and just have everything back as it was, but I don't know how to do that either.
Hope someone can help me! Many thanks!!!
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7), iPhoto, Mail, Safari, all running s
Posted on Jul 14, 2012 7:56 AM
Never mind! I finally figured out - duh - that if I logged out and then logged in under the new name1 ID, I could find everything! HOOORAY!
Posted on Jul 18, 2012 2:40 PM