HELP! How do I restore my iMac??
#1
HELP! How do I restore my iMac??
Let me start with ARRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHH!
I just setup my new iMac a few days ago. Saved a handful of new pics and documents on it before I took it to the Apple Store to have my old PC files transferred over.
This went fine.
Bought a Firewire cable to transfer over my Macbook files myself. Used Migration Assistant. I thought this would only add the new files to my iMac. Instead, everything was OVERWRITTEN, including software, documents, pics. Now everything I had transferred over from my PC is gone and I'm left with a carbon copy of my Macbook. WTF?!?!?!
I was using Time Machine to make backups of my iMac before this all happened, so naturally I thought I could just restore everything prior to this fiasco. Nothing. Won't let me do it.
Help! before I go ballistic and throw this thing out the window!!!!
I just setup my new iMac a few days ago. Saved a handful of new pics and documents on it before I took it to the Apple Store to have my old PC files transferred over.
This went fine.
Bought a Firewire cable to transfer over my Macbook files myself. Used Migration Assistant. I thought this would only add the new files to my iMac. Instead, everything was OVERWRITTEN, including software, documents, pics. Now everything I had transferred over from my PC is gone and I'm left with a carbon copy of my Macbook. WTF?!?!?!
I was using Time Machine to make backups of my iMac before this all happened, so naturally I thought I could just restore everything prior to this fiasco. Nothing. Won't let me do it.
Help! before I go ballistic and throw this thing out the window!!!!
#2
ok, disregard above. Finally got Time Machine to work by rebooting through the OS X install disk.
But now I once again attempted to transfer over pictures/documents from the Macbook to the iMac (did not select applications/settings in Migration Assistant in fear it would overwrite everything and revert to the old OS like last time).
Process completed but nothing was moved over?? None of my pics/documents were transferred over?? What am I missing here?
But now I once again attempted to transfer over pictures/documents from the Macbook to the iMac (did not select applications/settings in Migration Assistant in fear it would overwrite everything and revert to the old OS like last time).
Process completed but nothing was moved over?? None of my pics/documents were transferred over?? What am I missing here?
#8
No prob
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