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Help with restoring new Macbook Pro

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m3lover1

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Nov 4, 2015
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Hello! Last month my MBP was stolen, and I couldn't recover it. I finally received my replacement last night. Just got some questions about restoring my new laptop from my backups.

So I backed up my previous MBP using both time machine and backblaze. I will preface by saying I'm an idiot cause for my time machine the last time I backed up was 3/18, and my laptop was stolen on 3/31. I know I kept forgetting to plug in the hard drive when I was at work. Backblaze backed up until the day of the theft.

So what I did first with my new MBP I restored via my slightly outdated time machine with migration assistant. I am also in process of downloading my backup from backblaze. Now with regular files I'll just copy over from my backblaze backup to my MBP, but what about the folders/files inside the user\library folder that is in the backup? Iirc I didn't install any new programs in between the last time machine backup and the theft. Should I copy over the user library folder from my backup to my computer also? If I don't what effect does that have in terms of the state of my new MBP? My apps losing some data from before?

Thanks for your help!
 
I would not try to restore the Library folder from BackBlaze. At most, you may lose some app setting you changed in that couple week period.
 
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Weaselboy said:
I would not try to restore the Library folder from BackBlaze. At most, you may lose some app setting you changed in that couple week period.
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Got it. Thanks!

I actually now remember something, I'm pretty sure I had a program where it changes the scrolling direction of the mouse compared to the trackpad automatically, so I don't have to go into settings to manually switch back and forth. It's missing. Any of y'all know of a program/utility that does that?
 
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