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<blockquote data-quote="Jonzjob" data-source="post: 1899068" data-attributes="member: 149248">Confusion has taken a strong hold in our household so I'm not too sure just what I have done, but I now have a clean working system with the system's attached applications, i.e. the ones that come with the downloaded OS. I had fun and games getting past the step for choosing the wifi connection due to the icon being hidden in the top right of the screen and about twice thew size of a bit of dust! The bloke at the AppleCare help desk was brilliant and talked me through that one.So I am now at the point of recovering folders from Time Machine. As per&nbsp; <a href="https://support.apple.com/en-hk/guide/mac-help/mh11422/mac" target="_blank">Restore items backed up with Time Machine on Mac</a>Easy peasy? NO. Time machine opens OK and I can select folders OK, but the Restore button stays greyed out and unavailable! It would appear that although when I look at the Time Machine HDD in Finder all of the backups have been done, but it seems as if the system isn't recognising that the back up exists?At the moment I am getting the TM back up to date on our old iMac and I am hoping that it will be possible to use that to get my Mail application on the new iMac up to date?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jonzjob, post: 1899068, member: 149248"] Confusion has taken a strong hold in our household so I'm not too sure just what I have done, but I now have a clean working system with the system's attached applications, i.e. the ones that come with the downloaded OS. I had fun and games getting past the step for choosing the wifi connection due to the icon being hidden in the top right of the screen and about twice thew size of a bit of dust! The bloke at the AppleCare help desk was brilliant and talked me through that one. So I am now at the point of recovering folders from Time Machine. As per [URL="https://support.apple.com/en-hk/guide/mac-help/mh11422/mac"]Restore items backed up with Time Machine on Mac[/URL] Easy peasy? NO. Time machine opens OK and I can select folders OK, but the Restore button stays greyed out and unavailable! It would appear that although when I look at the Time Machine HDD in Finder all of the backups have been done, but it seems as if the system isn't recognising that the back up exists? At the moment I am getting the TM back up to date on our old iMac and I am hoping that it will be possible to use that to get my Mail application on the new iMac up to date? [/QUOTE]

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