toshy Posted July 17, 2015 Report Share Posted July 17, 2015 I have decided to downgrade from Yosemite to mavericks and am having a restore problemm I have, as recommended, erased my disk and installed a new copy of mavericks. Obviously, I am missing many permissions for non-apple applications etc and tried to restore these from my backup. I did a selective backup and restored just the two libraries. I asked for these to be resored to a specific folder NOT the existing 19.9 library folders, but Retropsect restored the files to the libraries. I am unable to use any of the library files as I have no permission to use them, despite setting up users identical to the backup. When I try to change them my user name does not appear - just a message 'fetching'. Nothing ever arrives and the beach ball spins interminably. Does anybody have a suggested route for such a downgrade. My Time machine Backups are all Yosemite. Thanks Roger 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twickland Posted July 17, 2015 Report Share Posted July 17, 2015 It would likely be easiest to first perform a clean reinstallation of Mavericks. I'm wondering how exactly you performed the failed Restore? I've never had Retrospect fail to create a new destination folder when requested, and we restore preference files all the time. Did the Summary page, before you performed the restore, indicate that the files would be restored to a new folder? For extra safety, I would define a subfolder on the destination volume (such as your Desktop) in Sources, and use that as your restore destination, in case something further goes awry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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