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home folder within home folder, cant remove
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<blockquote data-quote="johncogan" data-source="post: 1332234" data-attributes="member: 224842"><p>Goes back several weeks.</p><p></p><p>Part of the problem was that during the power cut it was mid way through a backup. The result was that upon powering up everything was lost on the mac itself apart from the applications. But all app settings and user data was reset to a "clean" install of Mac OSX Lion.</p><p></p><p>I opened time machine and restored my user folder but (Been a Mac noob) I restored it to the wrong place and this I think resulted in the position I am in now.</p><p></p><p>Or was in. I have resolved this the long and hard way by creating a second administration user on the Mac and copied all files across and deleted the original user.</p><p></p><p>In case of this happening again (I bought a UPS as well) is there any 1-click time machine solution that will restore all my settings, software registrations, bookmarks etc ?</p><p></p><p>I had to do this folder by folder the first time round and still got it horribly worng.</p><p></p><p>TIA</p><p></p><p>John</p><p>A.K.A. Mac noob</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="johncogan, post: 1332234, member: 224842"] Goes back several weeks. Part of the problem was that during the power cut it was mid way through a backup. The result was that upon powering up everything was lost on the mac itself apart from the applications. But all app settings and user data was reset to a "clean" install of Mac OSX Lion. I opened time machine and restored my user folder but (Been a Mac noob) I restored it to the wrong place and this I think resulted in the position I am in now. Or was in. I have resolved this the long and hard way by creating a second administration user on the Mac and copied all files across and deleted the original user. In case of this happening again (I bought a UPS as well) is there any 1-click time machine solution that will restore all my settings, software registrations, bookmarks etc ? I had to do this folder by folder the first time round and still got it horribly worng. TIA John A.K.A. Mac noob [/QUOTE]
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