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if i use time machine on lion 10.7, can i put all my info back on mavericks from the time machine i did on lion ?

Hi everyone, its my first time using time machine, i want to change from lion to mavericks, but i want to know how that actually works, and if i back up my stuff from lion would it match and would mavericks know what am trying to do here !?.... like i want to have all the sime that i do on my lion OSX but On Mavericks OSX

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Posted on May 7, 2014 1:49 PM

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Posted on May 7, 2014 3:00 PM

If you are going to install Mavericks on your existing Mac then you don't need to use Time Machine. It's good to have a Time Machine backup but when you install Mavericks all of your personal files/documents are left intact and are unaffected. Only the operating system files and updated applications are modified on your system.


You may want to consider keeping your Lion backup and setting up the Mavericks backup on a new external hard drive.

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May 7, 2014 3:00 PM in response to Ferdy_Bozulich

If you are going to install Mavericks on your existing Mac then you don't need to use Time Machine. It's good to have a Time Machine backup but when you install Mavericks all of your personal files/documents are left intact and are unaffected. Only the operating system files and updated applications are modified on your system.


You may want to consider keeping your Lion backup and setting up the Mavericks backup on a new external hard drive.

if i use time machine on lion 10.7, can i put all my info back on mavericks from the time machine i did on lion ?

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