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Hello - help please...

My girlfriend's 2 year old iMac was stolen 4 weeks ago - OS was Leopard - I have time machine backups. A new iMac will arrive this week with Lion as the OS. The man in the mac shop said that a restore would copy everything back except the OS - i am not sure about this! I need to restore all applications, mail, iweb stuff, itunes library, iphoto library, documents etc but not overwrite Lion.

How do i do this please?

Thanks...

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banjaxed said:
Hello - help please...

My girlfriend's 2 year old iMac was stolen 4 weeks ago - OS was Leopard - I have time machine backups. A new iMac will arrive this week with Lion as the OS. The man in the mac shop said that a restore would copy everything back except the OS - i am not sure about this! I need to restore all applications, mail, iweb stuff, itunes library, iphoto library, documents etc but not overwrite Lion.

How do i do this please?

Thanks...

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Run Migration Assistant with Time Machine backup as the source, and it will (indeed) restore everything but the OS. (Actually you can select what to restore from the menu--see link below).
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4413
 
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thank you MoTM - if i take the mac out of the box and switch it on - assuming no accounts have been created - can i run the migration straight away so only one account appears on the mac (the one from the time machine backup)?
 
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thank you MoTM - if i take the mac out of the box and switch it on - assuming no accounts have been created - can i run the migration straight away so only one account appears on the mac (the one from the time machine backup)?
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Yes, this is what I did when I set up my wife's MacBook Air to replace her old MacBook.
 
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thanks again - will do just that when it arrives....
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