Time Machine Questions
My mum's iMac (running 10.5.3) that I help support for her has been suffereing from the previoulsy discussed permissions bug that seems to occur if 10.5 was installed as an upgrade rather than a clean install. I have read the fix is to perform a claen install so that is what I intend to do.
All of her data is safe on her external disk thanks to time machine, however I have not had to do a restore using it before so want to be clear about the process. Once 10.5 is reinstalled how do i get to the data? Will performing a restore restore the permissions problem as well? Am I better off just backing it all up separtely like I would have done pre 10.5? Is this going to be so easy that these questions are all pointless?
Any thoughts appreciated.
Thanks
All of her data is safe on her external disk thanks to time machine, however I have not had to do a restore using it before so want to be clear about the process. Once 10.5 is reinstalled how do i get to the data? Will performing a restore restore the permissions problem as well? Am I better off just backing it all up separtely like I would have done pre 10.5? Is this going to be so easy that these questions are all pointless?
Any thoughts appreciated.
Thanks
Comments
In your particular situation, since it sounds like Time Machine has never worked, to be 100% safe you should move the data to the backup drive yourself and then format and reinstall Leopard. Move the data back manually and reconfigure Time Capsule