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Backed up restore problem
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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1254412"><p>You'd either have to restart the machine and run as root (dangerous!) or boot from a bootable hard drive (not a disc) that has OS X on it and copy the old user folder (which MUST be *identically* named) from the external to where it goes on the new drive, which will of course erase anything you had in the "new" user folder.</p><p></p><p>For future reference, the right way to do this is to use Migration Assistant or Time Machine.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1254412"] You'd either have to restart the machine and run as root (dangerous!) or boot from a bootable hard drive (not a disc) that has OS X on it and copy the old user folder (which MUST be *identically* named) from the external to where it goes on the new drive, which will of course erase anything you had in the "new" user folder. For future reference, the right way to do this is to use Migration Assistant or Time Machine. [/QUOTE]
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