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Originally Posted by rhari79
… My biggest issue is to get all the necessary data back, but leave out the unnecessary ones.
For eg., i have had to separately copy itunes folders, addressbook, mail folders, firefox data etc.,
Again this is because i dont want to get back all the old time machine stuff as i want a like new system with only data i want, but nothing more.
Does anyone know if there are Apps that can selectively restore such data? Like maybe recognizes popular apps and restores these from time machine along with their data?
Or is there an uninstaller sort of app that will work like Windows, and clean the app and its data?
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I haven't tried uninstalling Apple apps that came with the OS with uninstallers, but suspect it wouldn't work well. It would probably work well for third party apps though. As far as I know, the way you manually copied stuff you wanted to preserve is one way to do what you wanted. And that is discouraged by Apple. And doesn't always catch everything from other places in the system. So the cleanest way is to use the Migration assistant to do everything, including all the garbage you don't want, then use a deinstaller to selectively get rid of apps and their associated files you don't want. I use AppTrap, it works well. No idea if it works in Lion though.