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My Mac died - What should I know...

tdctdc Posts: 130
edited December 1969 in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

So my Mac died... froze and was never able to recover. I had to erase and install iOS from scratch and I did have Time Machine Back Up so all my files are safe.

This means I need to reinstall Daz and all my purchases, is there anything else I need to think about or worry about?

Thanks

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  • EsemwyEsemwy Posts: 578
    edited December 1969

    Time Machine should have had everything, unless you were excluding the DAZ directories. Did you restore before logging in the first time, or did you recreate your user account first?

  • tdctdc Posts: 130
    edited December 1969

    all my files are in my external time machine drive... But, I would have to download all my purchased files from DAZ, that is the part that worries me just a bit.

  • StratDragonStratDragon Posts: 3,167
    edited June 2015

    tdcollins90806 said:
    So my Mac died... froze and was never able to recover. I had to erase and install iOS from scratch and I did have Time Machine Back Up so all my files are safe.

    This means I need to reinstall Daz and all my purchases, is there anything else I need to think about or worry about?

    Thanks

    IOS is for phones and ipads. OS X is what Apple users on laptops, desktops, minis and imacs.
    if you backed up your drive using TM all your files on whatever drive(s) you synched are in the backup already
    if they were on the external drive they are likely still on the drive
    you will need to re-download Studio, Carrera, Bryce or whatever but once you have the core application you should be able to point back to the drive. Plugins like Reality would probably have to be re-downloaded and re-serialized

    Post edited by StratDragon on
  • EsemwyEsemwy Posts: 578
    edited June 2015

    tdcollins90806 said:
    all my files are in my external time machine drive... But, I would have to download all my purchased files from DAZ, that is the part that worries me just a bit.

    All your DAZ files should have been backed up in Time Machine as well, including everything you purchased. If they weren't, it would be because you told it not to.

    The steps would have been:
    - replace broken hard drive
    - install fresh OS X on hard drive
    - use Migration Assistant to restore time machine backup
    - pick up right where you left off before your hard drive crashed

    There should be no need to re-download anything. All your purchased files should be right where you left them. Time Machine keeps all the backups up to date unless you disconnect the backup disk, and if that's you're problem, you don't really have any options.

    Post edited by Esemwy on
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