Time Machine Restore - Clean (I.e. new) OS X Leopard with Apps and Data from backup!

LordSplodge

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Quick question:

My MacBook won't print to my HP PSC1110, this is because many moons ago (around 4 months) I tried to put the 10.4 drivers on for the scanner support. Anyway I could do with being able to print and have not been able to restore the OS X 10.5 driver ('cos I cannot for the life of me figure out what I need to restore)

So can I do a nice clean and lean re-install of OS X and then bash my apps and data back and have them work?

Googled this but all I can find so far is a complete TM restore. That's not what I want. If anybody with better Google Fu than me can find a link please post it for me.

Cheers
 
FYI i've just done a complete TM restore everything went fine apart from I lost all emails from Mail, all software needed re-registering and all software prefs. didn't transfer in the restore, apart from that very easy.
 
Yeah, if you format + reinstall Mac OS X you can then plug in the Time Machine drive and copy over everything you need. You'll then need to delete your Time Machine backup and start fresh mind with the new install :)
 
Oh I forgot to add!

You'll be copying things back manually like you would any removable drive. If you go to your external HDD it's a folder called backups.db (or something like that!) that you can browse like a normal filesystem. It has all your past backups in there listed by date. The way Time Machine works is it links back to pre-existing files so don't worry if it looks like you should be using up an insane amount of disk space :D

Anyway. For things that aren't easy to get to (like your iCal calendars, Address Book contacts, Safari Bookmarks etc.) it's probably worth backing them up manually from within each application :)
 
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