Manual restore from a Time Machine backup from a failing disk?
The hard drive on the iMac seemed to be having issues. I called apple and they said to bring it in for a hard drive (recalled) replacement. So, I unplugged the TimeMachine backup drive, and took the iMac in to have the hard drive replaced. When I got it back, it had a fresh install of the OS.
I plugged in the external TimeMachine backup disk, and it wouldn't restore. After running Disk Utility several times (always errored out on the catalog file), I used disk drill to recover all of the files off of it. I saved all of the recovered TimeMachine files to the new internal hard drive. How can I retrieve my files from these backups?
I need mostly the latest version of my Documents folder (and contents), and Desktop folder contents. Eveything else would be a sweet bonus.