Go to Settings General Reset, then tap Erase All Content and Settings. On the Apps & Data screen, tap Restore from iCloud Backup, then sign in with your Apple ID. Proceed to 'Choose backup,' then choose.
- If you're trying to restore system files, applications, or perhaps everything from your backup, proceed with the steps below to boot your Mac from the backup disk and then restore your backup disk to your Mac's internal hard drive. Attach the Backup Disk to Your Macintosh. Attach the backup disk to your Mac using a USB or Thunderbolt cable.
- Restore your Mac from a Time Machine Backup. Time Machine is not only useful for recovering groups of lost or deleted files. You can also use it to perform a complete restore of your Mac's user accounts and data. Time Machine will not recover your operating system.
- On the utilities screen, select the 'Restore From Time Machine Backup' option. On the Restore From Time Machine page, hit the 'Continue' button. Step Two: Choose Hard Drive Next, you'll be asked which Time Machine drive you'd like to recover from.
There's something about that new MacBook smell, that clean feeling of having an original OS X install with no clutter or cruft. But you've got to get your old files back on your new (or newly wiped and reinstalled) Mac, and automatically restoring from Time Machine is the easiest and most obvious way to do so.
It's not, however, the only way. You can also easily selectively restore files from just the folders you want.
Just open your Time Machine drive in Finder, browse to your Mac's folder, and select the 'Latest' link to open the last backup folder. Or, grab an older version if you're really sure that's what you want.
Now browse through the folders and find what you want to restore. If you want to just get your files and not your settings, you can drag over just your individual user folders, or copy over the applications you want. Personally I restored just main folders (Documents, Dropbox and such), then brought just the apps I knew I wanted to use and left everything else on the Time Machine drive. That way, I've got a fresh start, and can still get back any of the old stuff anytime if I want. It's a bit more trouble, but does get you the cleanest new install possible.
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Just open your Time Machine drive in Finder, browse to your Mac's folder, and select the 'Latest' link to open the last backup folder. Or, grab an older version if you're really sure that's what you want.
Now browse through the folders and find what you want to restore. If you want to just get your files and not your settings, you can drag over just your individual user folders, or copy over the applications you want. Personally I restored just main folders (Documents, Dropbox and such), then brought just the apps I knew I wanted to use and left everything else on the Time Machine drive. That way, I've got a fresh start, and can still get back any of the old stuff anytime if I want. It's a bit more trouble, but does get you the cleanest new install possible.
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