Today is the first time that i have ever had to use Apple's Time Machine software. A computer was brought into work to have the files from the client's old Mac to be transferred onto the new one. I opened the external hard drive where the backup files were and did a quick look over. I noticed user directories and applications along with misc documents. At first thought is that i hope there is a "backup" type file that will know where all these files go so that the applications will work once they are moved over.
Then it occurs to me, hey this is a Mac, and Apple really knows how to make an experience a good one. I opened the Migration Assistant from the Utilities folder on the new Mac and one of the options was from "Time Machine".
It immediately recognized that this hard drive was loaded up by "Time Machine", from another version of OS X i might add, and gave me options to move the "User" and the files to their correct locations.
Within 10 minutes i had the whole process complete without any problems and the client now has 20+ gigs of applications and documents restored to the same folders as he had originally.
Just Magic, Apple.
