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Yosemite Time Machine HELP! Urgent
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1618152"><p>No need for Snow Leopard. Once the backups are done, just boot into the Recovery partition and reformat the HD and then install Mavericks from the Mac App Store. It's a big download, so it will take some time.</p><p></p><p>As for the backup, if this is a work machine, it would seem practical to invest in a new external drive for this recovery. It just needs to be the same size as the internal drive as you'll be using it only once for this process. However, if you also want to use it for a second backup drive, make it twice the size of the internal and it should do nicely. For the backup you can use TM and then Migration Assistant to recover data and software or you can just copy your home directory over and then reinstall all your software from the original disks. A couple of notes: If you have software that is registered, you may need to de-register it before you do this. Adobe and Microsoft both track the installations this way to prevent piracy. Others do as well. The second note is that when you reinstall Mavericks and it boots for the first time, it will offer to use Migration Assistant to move your files. Do that then. If you bypass that, press on and create an account and come back to it later, the MA process will not put your files in the new account, even if it has the same name as your current account. But if you do it at the first prompting to do so, then MA will create the account you have now and put your stuff in it exactly where it is now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1618152"] No need for Snow Leopard. Once the backups are done, just boot into the Recovery partition and reformat the HD and then install Mavericks from the Mac App Store. It's a big download, so it will take some time. As for the backup, if this is a work machine, it would seem practical to invest in a new external drive for this recovery. It just needs to be the same size as the internal drive as you'll be using it only once for this process. However, if you also want to use it for a second backup drive, make it twice the size of the internal and it should do nicely. For the backup you can use TM and then Migration Assistant to recover data and software or you can just copy your home directory over and then reinstall all your software from the original disks. A couple of notes: If you have software that is registered, you may need to de-register it before you do this. Adobe and Microsoft both track the installations this way to prevent piracy. Others do as well. The second note is that when you reinstall Mavericks and it boots for the first time, it will offer to use Migration Assistant to move your files. Do that then. If you bypass that, press on and create an account and come back to it later, the MA process will not put your files in the new account, even if it has the same name as your current account. But if you do it at the first prompting to do so, then MA will create the account you have now and put your stuff in it exactly where it is now. [/QUOTE]
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