Spoonhead
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I have my OS X partition on a SSD drive running latest Mavericks. Due to its size, I moved my home folder over to another hard drive in my Mac Pro.
This morning, when booting up, received an error message that I couldn't log on and found that the drive with my home folder on had failed to mount and wouldn't repair. So no problem I thought, swapped out with a new drive and promptly restored the files and folders from the last backup. Because I couldn't log on, I had to log into my admin account. After that was complete, I was left with all the files sorted, but none of my preferences, account settings in mail etc. restored. The dock was just the original default after re-logging on to my user account.
So I then went to this site, OSX Tips Using the Recovery HD and thought I should restore my OS X drive as well. Did that, from the restore drive after holding alt/option down at start up, but then nothing booted at all. According to that guide, would appear to a common problem. I could however get back to my boot options at startup.
So now I am currently into doing a fresh install of OSX on the basis I can hopefully restore my preferences etc from the back up.
What did I do wrong?
This morning, when booting up, received an error message that I couldn't log on and found that the drive with my home folder on had failed to mount and wouldn't repair. So no problem I thought, swapped out with a new drive and promptly restored the files and folders from the last backup. Because I couldn't log on, I had to log into my admin account. After that was complete, I was left with all the files sorted, but none of my preferences, account settings in mail etc. restored. The dock was just the original default after re-logging on to my user account.
So I then went to this site, OSX Tips Using the Recovery HD and thought I should restore my OS X drive as well. Did that, from the restore drive after holding alt/option down at start up, but then nothing booted at all. According to that guide, would appear to a common problem. I could however get back to my boot options at startup.
So now I am currently into doing a fresh install of OSX on the basis I can hopefully restore my preferences etc from the back up.
What did I do wrong?