Chapter . Restore Missing Files
(Note: If you selected Upgrade Mac OS X as your installation method, the next several pages do not apply to you. You can skip ahead to Restore Login Items.)
As I mentioned earlier, whether you use Archive and Install (and its Preserve Users and Network Settings option) or Erase and Install (transferring user files, applications, and documents from a backup volume), the installer does not copy all your old files. To some extent, this is a good thing—many of the files not copied are the ones most likely to cause problems after upgrading. If you were going to copy all the old files anyway, you might as well have chosen Upgrade instead; you gain little from Archive and Install or Erase and Install.
That said, many users ...
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