how do I restore my data to my iMac by drag and drop from a Seagate external hard drive, not using the migration assist?
How were they backed up?
If it's just files on the drive, open 2 finder windows and drag the files from where they are then drop them where you want them.
Are you having a problem doing so?
Restart in the Recovery Partition (Command + R on startup) then restore from the Time Machine backup.
Thanks for your response.
The time machine prepares frequent backups which are stored on the seagate external hard drive.
Then the iMac had some kind of failure and I took it to apple support to fix. They ran diagnostics and restored macOS Monterey. They advised that I not use migration assist in case there was some problem with a recent backup file, and instead just drag & drop from the seagate disk file to the Mac.
But I don’t know how to figure out how to do this step, i.e., get files to the macOS screen from files on the backup disk.
Does this make sense??
repopulating my iMac with data after restoring macOS
