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Space Issues after Time Machine Restore
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1892527" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>OK, this article from Apple has all of the directions you should need: <a href="https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/recover-all-your-files-mh15638/10.14/mac/10.14" target="_blank">Recover all your files on Mac</a></p><p></p><p>That is for Mojave, since you are on Mojave and have a Mojave TM backup. Just read it over, then print it off and follow the directions carefully. The directions don't show how to reformat/repartition the drive. To do that you will need to boot into Recovery mode. Unfortunately, from your images you don't seem to have a recovery partition on the drive, but you can give this a try: <a href="https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201314" target="_blank">About macOS Recovery on Intel-based Mac computers</a></p><p></p><p>If you can boot to recovery, you can use Disk Utility from there to erase the boot drive, reinstall Mojave and at the first boot, use Migration Assistant to recover everything from the backup. If that works, at the end you will have your system exactly as it was when the backup was made. </p><p></p><p>If you can't boot recovery, you can try an internet boot, shown on the same article, to get Mojave installed, again deleting everything and reformatting the internal drive from the installer screen. </p><p></p><p>Finally, if all else fails, there is a way documented in the article to get back to the original versions of MacOS on your Mac, then you can upgrade to Mojave and do the recovery from TM. </p><p></p><p>So, lots of ways depending on what you can get to.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1892527, member: 396914"] OK, this article from Apple has all of the directions you should need: [URL="https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/recover-all-your-files-mh15638/10.14/mac/10.14"]Recover all your files on Mac[/URL] That is for Mojave, since you are on Mojave and have a Mojave TM backup. Just read it over, then print it off and follow the directions carefully. The directions don't show how to reformat/repartition the drive. To do that you will need to boot into Recovery mode. Unfortunately, from your images you don't seem to have a recovery partition on the drive, but you can give this a try: [URL="https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201314"]About macOS Recovery on Intel-based Mac computers[/URL] If you can boot to recovery, you can use Disk Utility from there to erase the boot drive, reinstall Mojave and at the first boot, use Migration Assistant to recover everything from the backup. If that works, at the end you will have your system exactly as it was when the backup was made. If you can't boot recovery, you can try an internet boot, shown on the same article, to get Mojave installed, again deleting everything and reformatting the internal drive from the installer screen. Finally, if all else fails, there is a way documented in the article to get back to the original versions of MacOS on your Mac, then you can upgrade to Mojave and do the recovery from TM. So, lots of ways depending on what you can get to. [/QUOTE]
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