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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1917583" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>Jim, I don't know what you were trying to do with that last post, but if it was YOU who said, "I intend to wipe the drive and re-install 12.5," that is probably not necessary. Just boot the machine and if you get the "Welcome" video from Apple, it's just as it came from the factory. Do the setup, providing the AppleID and password, then creating your account on the machine, and once you know it's working, you can look to see if there are any updates to the operating system that need to be applied. If you want to restore from a TM backup, create the account on the new machine with the exact same login name and exact same password as was on the machine from which the TM backup was made. That way your files will end up in your account with the proper permissions for you to be able to read/write them.</p></blockquote><p></p>