My 6 year old Macbook accidentally got soaked with water and I just bought a new one to replace it. Everything was backed up with Crashplan online so I restored my data using their instructions but instead of overwriting my new user folder, it just put the restored user folder inside of the new user folder.
After everything downloaded from their server, I moved all my documents and pictures to the proper folders but I am not sure what I should do about the library folder. I am thinking I should try to restore just the Library folder and direct the software to overwrite any duplicate files.
Is there any harm in just leaving the second library folder where it is?
Edit: I should also note that some of my installed applications were not reinstalled with the restore
but I'm not too worried about those because there weren't that many to begin with and I plan to just reinstall them.
Best Answer
I like to make an admin user - new short name and then restore the files from CrashPlan to /Users before I create the Mac log in account. That way, you fix any permissions and user ID conflicts.
When you make a new account with a specific short name and the folder with that short name exists - macOS will then ask you if you want to reuse that folder and it proceeds to use / fix / upgrade any settings you have restored and then makes the new user active.
The harm in leaving the new folder in the wrong place is you don't get the files and settings used and your system will make up new settings and files in the proper location as you launch each app.
Code42 support for CrashPlan is also very good if you get stuck with restoring things and you want some individual help or have back and forth type questions that don't work well here.