Will time machine HD be picked up on a fresh install on snow leopard?

Hi guys i am going to do a fresh install on my machine. I recently upgraded OS's from leopard using the upgrade install that just wrote over my existing setup. I didnt want to restore from my time machine but just wanted to drag files from my time machine HD manually after the fresh install but im concerned that the HD wont be picked up by the new system.
I just wanted to make sure that my old time machine backup and all files will be seen by the fresh install so i dont loose any data.
Has anybody done this before?
thanks Jamie

jamie8286 wrote:
Hi guys i am going to do a fresh install on my machine. I recently upgraded OS's from leopard using the upgrade install that just wrote over my existing setup. I didnt want to restore from my time machine but just wanted to drag files from my time machine HD manually after the fresh install but im concerned that the HD wont be picked up by the new system.
Time Machine puts special "deny everybody everything" permissions on it's backups, and if you copy them via the Finder you may have all sorts of locked file and/or permissions issues with them, especially if you have multiple users. Not to mention the problem of getting everything you need. Complex applications that came with their own installers, for example, will probably have to be re-installed (and any license/purchase keys re-entered).
If you want a fresh copy of OSX, just do the install again. If you want to get rid of old stuff in your user folder, you're probably much better off just deleting what you don't want.
Or erase your disk, install OSX, then use +Setup Assistant+ to transfer the data you want from your backups. See #19 in the Frequently Asked Questions *User Tip,* also at the top of this forum.
I just wanted to make sure that my old time machine backup and all files will be seen by the fresh install so i dont loose any data.
If you replace all the data on your internal HD, your next Time Machine backup will be a full one -- everything on the internal HD will be backed-up again. So it may have to delete a lot of old backups to make room for the new one.
If your TM disk isn't well over the size of the data currently on your HD plus 120% of the data you put back on it, there won't be room for a new full backup. You'll have to erase the disk and let TM start over.
Either way, TM will, sooner or later, delete it's copies of anything you don't put back.

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