04-14-2008, 02:32 PM
Sold a black Macbook yesterday for which I had a TM backup to an external drive.
Migrated the backup to a different Mac and spent some time last night configuring some stuff.
Realized that TM doesn't backup the iTunes library and .xml databases.
Lost all my playlists (some of which were complicated smart playlists), play counts, last played dates, etc.
Searched around and apparently this is a known issue (though it was unknown to me). Apparently there are other things that TM doesn't back up as well.
Probably wise to keep a clone (using Super Duper, CCC, etc.) of your drive rather than a TM backup. I learned the hard way!
Migrated the backup to a different Mac and spent some time last night configuring some stuff.
Realized that TM doesn't backup the iTunes library and .xml databases.
Lost all my playlists (some of which were complicated smart playlists), play counts, last played dates, etc.
Searched around and apparently this is a known issue (though it was unknown to me). Apparently there are other things that TM doesn't back up as well.
Probably wise to keep a clone (using Super Duper, CCC, etc.) of your drive rather than a TM backup. I learned the hard way!