Time Machine won't restore pre mavericks data

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ronin42 Author

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Time Machine won't restore pre mavericks data

I finally bit the bullet and did a clean install of Mavericks.

I was hopping to use my Time Machine to restore data from my old account.

This is not happening, the data is still there but it only wants to access data backed up since the install.

I can manually enter Time Machine from finder and locate the files.

Those files have the "Do not enter" red circle with the white bar.

I could probably brute force the settings on each directory but that shouldn't need to be done.

Any know of a way to fix this?

I was getting errors stating I didn't have permissions to access it even though I have the sam password being used.

ej

iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3), 1TB fusion drive

Posted on Nov 3, 2013 12:18 AM

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mende1

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Nov 3, 2013 12:20 AM in response to ronin42

Use Migration Assistant to restore your files > http://pondini.org/OSX/MigrateLion.html

The problem with a clean install is that Time Machine detects your Mac as a new one even if it's the same that the one you used to create backups, and this is the reason why it doesn't let you restore files. If you want to restore individual data, see > http://pondini.org/TM/E3.html

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ronin42 Author

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Nov 3, 2013 3:36 AM in response to mende1

I followed the advice and removed the files that time machine created.

I then ran the migration assitant and everythings up and running... except for Bootcamp right now.

My next project.

Thanks

ej

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mende1

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Nov 3, 2013 3:38 AM in response to ronin42

You can't restore Boot Camp from the Time Machine backup, so unless you have a clone of your Windows volume with WinClone, you will have to reinstall it

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kirkjb

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Nov 8, 2013 10:36 AM in response to ronin42

i had the same problem and checked out both pages http://pondini.org/OSX/MigrateLion.html and http://pondini.org/TM/E3.html but did not find any instructions for removing files created by time machine. can you help please?

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kirkjb

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Nov 12, 2013 11:34 AM in response to mende1

i had the same problem and checked out both pageshttp://pondini.org/OSX/MigrateLion.html and http://pondini.org/TM/E3.html but did not find any instructions for removing files created by time machine. can you help please?

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