Time Machine

Hi everyone

I have a question about transferring information to a new macbook pro via time machine and the issue of a corrupt setting.

So here we go:

I have gone through three macs over the last few months: 13 Inch Macbook Pro, 15 inch Retina Macbook Pro & 13 inch Retina Macbook Pro.

My original Mac was the 13 inch MBP, then I got the 15 inch rMBP and now I am on the 13 inch rMBP. The 15 inch rMBP had a failed motherboard

and so I now have the 13 inch rMBP.

I used TM to back up all of the time but when I restored to the new mac(both the 13 and 15 inch) I always got a corrupt finder setting when I opened the 'Applications' folder. By this I mean that the finder setting would always revert to its orginal setting no matter what 'view' or 'arrange by' option I selected. This would only be in the 'Applications' folder and no other ones.

I did a verify permissions and found a corrupt applications/DS store file which I deleted but this made no difference at all.

I would back up by installing over the new mac and not a complete restore-hope that this makes sense?

When I did do a complete restore(the hard drive would by erased and the whole system would be restored with TM, then the corrupt finder setting would not occur.

I prefer to do a clean install but have no idea how to get rid of this problem. TM is obviously brining over this corrupt setting.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance

Charles