How should I restore a backup of my user account from a .dmg?

Question

I have on my external hard drive a .dmg which is a backup from when my internal hardrive was breaking.

Fixing the (internal) hard drive I then went on to erase it. And reinstall OSX in the process it asked me if I had any time machine backups. Which I do (on the same external) hard drive but it was very out of date.

What I want to know is; How can I get all the data back from the .dmg that I backed up (and have now fixed using DiskWarrior)?

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Should I just drag and drop the User folder? What would you reccomend?

Answer 1

1. Copy the user folder into /Users

2. Make a user with the same short name as the user that you copied in using the Users & Groups preference pane. This should prompt you to link the new user to the home folder that you copied in.

   ^{Note: Don't log in as that user yet.}

3. Reset the new user's ACLs using the ACL tool on the Recovery HD.

   1. Boot into the Recovery HD using ⌘R.
   2. Run resetpassword in Terminal (available from Utilities → Terminal).
   3. Select your account from the drop-down list.
   4. Click the Reset button for Reset Home Directory Permissions and ACLs.