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I’m restoring a complete home directory from a crashed disk onto a new Mac via Time Machine. Unfortunately it seems Time Machine is not smart enough to just replace the “beth” directory with the “beth” directory, or “Desktop” with “Desktop”, or “Pictures” with “Pictures”, and so forth. It would be nice if it could do a smart merge, or somehow made it easier to do a complete restore instead of a file-by-file restore.