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Hi all,
For school, I am going to need to hand in my macbook pro for a day with only Leopard and MS Office installed on it to get it 'accredited'. Of course I am not exactly planning to clear out my whole pc just for that, so I thought I'd just reformat it, hand it in, then put back the Time Machine backup I have so it's as if nothing happened.
Though, I'm somehow a bit worried that this might not work. How do I make sure that my Time Machine backup is complete enough to restore as an entire system, and not just drag my files back from the docs folder or something? I would like to include all settings, preferences, history, cookies, bookmarks, which icons are where on the desktop etc, does Time Machine do that?
For school, I am going to need to hand in my macbook pro for a day with only Leopard and MS Office installed on it to get it 'accredited'. Of course I am not exactly planning to clear out my whole pc just for that, so I thought I'd just reformat it, hand it in, then put back the Time Machine backup I have so it's as if nothing happened.
Though, I'm somehow a bit worried that this might not work. How do I make sure that my Time Machine backup is complete enough to restore as an entire system, and not just drag my files back from the docs folder or something? I would like to include all settings, preferences, history, cookies, bookmarks, which icons are where on the desktop etc, does Time Machine do that?