[Darryl Ramm]

If both machines are on the same network set up file sharing, or grab a USB stick to copy stuff over on.

But sort out your uid and gids first.

I am not aware of any time machine issues of, but it is not clear how exactly you are you trying to recover files, is that through time machine or directly grabbing files off the drive image. You need to sort this out... you may not actually have the backups you think you do.