Upgrading internal HD question

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I wanted to upgrade my internal disk, so I backed-up my former drive to an external via Time Machine, upgraded the internal HD, and have restored via Time Machine. Now I have all my data and apps on my hard drive, but I thought when I did my restore, I'd have my old machine back: meaning my photos would be in Aperture, iCal would have my info, iTunes would be populated, etc. But everything is blank.

Do I need to import everything? Or is there some way to just get back to my machine's former state?
 

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If you did the procedure correctly, Time Machine should have restored everything including documents, photos, music, apps, etc. I have done this several times and always got a complete restore. Are you sure you made a complete TM backup and not exclude anything?

If you have a complete TM backup and some things did not get restored, go ahead and try to manually restore them.

In my opinion, a better way to swap hard drives and retain everything is to use cloning software such as Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper, however, Time Machine should work as I stated above.
 
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This is exactly what I needed to know. I am thinking of doing the same thing. Were you able to figure everything out skiletsrage?
 

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