Restoring a user to a smaller hard drive
Hi,
I recentl had my macbook stolen. Luckily time machine was working well, and everything was backed up onto the time capsule. However i have a problem. My user profile within the sparsebundle is 134gb, howver i am trying to restore to a new MB air with only 128GB. I've restored the machine however i cannot find a way to access the user profile with my data in it. Obviously i cannot restore to exactly the profile i had before, but is there a way to access my data, taking it out of the sparsebundle and putting it onto a separate hard drive?
Any help would be much appreciated.
jon
Your best bet is probably to start over. Erase the new Mac's SSD, install OSX from the USB stick, and use +Setup Assistant+ to transfer most, but not all, of your stuff. You can omit some broad categories, such as the contents of the standard sub-folders in user home folders, such as Desktop, Documents, Pictures, etc. Start with the green box in [Setting up a new Mac from an old one or its backups|http://web.me.com/pondini/AppleTips/Setup.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of the +Snow Leopard > Installation and Setup+ forum).
That will assure that the user account(s) on the new Mac are recognized as being the same ones as those on your backups, so you won't lose permission to see them.
Then you can use the "Star Wars" display to restore the data you skipped above to an "alternate location" (the separate HD). Since the backups are from a different Mac, you'll need the +*Browse Other Time Machine Disks+* option, per #17 in [Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions|http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/FAQ.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of the +Time Machine+ forum).
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