The reverse procedure of backup, to restore is to put information from a backup back onto the computer system.
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Restoring new iPhone from iCloud backup deactivates old iphone?
I gave a friend a new SIM card for her unlocked direct from Apple iPhone 5.
She put the SIM in, and went through the setup process, restoring her iPhone 5 from an iCloud backup. At this point, her ...
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Is it easy to mount my Time Capsule after a clean install (without any restore) so that I can copy individual files from it?
People say it is possible but I am suspicious. I want to clean install and start fresh with nothing. Then I can access my Time Capsule that has my backup and copy any files I want. How easy or ...
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Restore all Notes from iCloud
I deleted numerous Notes from my phone that I want to get back from iCloud. My phone has not updated to iCloud so the Notes are still good on the cloud. How do I get all files from cloud back onto ...
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iPhone 4 Restore loop 6.1.2
OK so the other day I tried to restore my iPhone while it was jail broken on ios 6.1.2. Well it was a terrible idea.... NEVER DO IT. any way i have worked on trying to restore it back to normal but it ...
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How does keychain restore work in other idevice?
app A stores passwords in keychain programmatically. One password is stored in one keychain item. Keychain item is a class of type Generic Password. app A is installed & used in idevice1 & ...
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Time machine backup/restore: “This user's data doesn't need to be transferred”
So, I had a MacBook Pro 15", Late 2011, that I've been using daily since I got it last October. I set up time machine and every day after work, I would bring my laptop home and plug it into my time ...
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Mail.app accidentally deleted (OS X 5.8)
How do I restore Mail.app after it was accidentally deleted?
I have complete time machine backup of system, but can't find Mail.app in it.
I tried optional install from original disks, but Mail.app ...
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ios restore to previous version/model - without jailbreaking the original?
My non-jailbroken iPhone 4S needs to go for a warranty repair, and I want to restore its data to an older non-jailbroken 3G or to another even older jailbroken 2G, but of course itunes refuses to ...
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How can I fix my 1st gen iPad if I can't restore (error 3194) and have forgotten the password?
I googled to try to solve this, but changing the hostfile didn't work and using tinyumbrella didn't work either. I'm still getting the same error 3194.
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Cannot Upgrade jailbroken iPod touch 4.3.3 to iOS 6.1.2
I got a jailbroken iPod from a friend and I want to update to iOS 6 so I can restore my backed up data on it.
I tried SHIFT + Restore / Upgrade to iOS 6 but the first error I got was this
Figure 1
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How to jailbreak iPod Touch 2g without losing data?
I have an iPod Touch 2nd Generation, 8GB that runs firmware version 4.2.1, and currently it is not jailbroken.
I want to jailbreak it using redsn0w version 0.9.6b4. I have found these instructions. ...
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Move of time machine backup: unable to “restore”
I want to use a new hard drive for time machine. I try to restore the old backup into the new disk using disk utility. It fails with the following error :
source volume is read-write and cannot be ...
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restore Mac OS Mountain Lion to factory settings without discs or time machine backups
I installed XCode 3 on Mac OS Mountain Lion 10.8 and now I am getting the Apple BSODs.
Can I do a system restore without having the discs as I seem to have nothing to use, also I have no Time Machine ...
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Restoring iPhone
I need to restore my iPhone (I use iTunes on Windows 7). I backed-up the backup in MobileSync/Backup to an external drive (thankfully).
Now I have a long, nonsensically named folder containing the ...
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I need to restore my data from a non time machine manual backup
My machine crashed and I made a manual backup to an external drive...how can i restore all my user data including mailbox data...am I screwed. I did not use time machine backup to back up my data just ...
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Restoring user data to os10.7
My computer crashed and I made a copy of the entire hard disk by drag and drop on an external hard drive in target mode. Can I restore everything from this drive to the computer now that is 10.7 has ...
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Restoring a jailbroken iPhone
I'm trying to restore a iPhone 3g I got that was jailbroken. I plugged it into itunes and hit restore and received the error 1015 that it could not be restored. I've tried using the tinyumbrella ...
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iPhone 3GS restarts and goes into the iOS 6 “Slide to Set Up” screen
My iPhone 3gs has been misbehaving lately:
Randomly drops signal to "No Service"
"No SIM" issues
Restarts itself
Says it needs to be restored
I have already tried restoring it, cleaning the SIM ...
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Restoring iPhone's state from a dd hard drive image
This article, Recover Lost Data From Your iPhone, in its "Method 1" suggests a promising method to backup iPhone's entire state, that is iOS settings, apps, email settings, media files, that is ...
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Restoring from Backup error - cannot be saved to computer
I have all permissions organized and a single backup in the correct folder. I have 23 GB of space. I have an Iphone 4. I recently synced it and updated to the latest IOS. My contacts were lost, ...
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Restore my previous iCloud contacts to my iPhone 3GS
Hi - I had my contacts in iCloud & my son in my absence registered his new iPhone on my account (using my password and email address). Now I have his contacts on my iPhone 3GS and have lost all ...
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Unable to Restore iPhone 4 and ERROR -50
I'm using Windows XP SP3. I installed iOS 5 on my iPhone 4. The installation process went OK, but, when trying to restore my contents, it gives me ERROR -50. I tried all the different things ...
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How do I restore my lost Address Book entries on my iPhone?
My mom just got a new iPhone 4S today, so she wanted me to transfer the contacts on her old iPhone 3G to the 4S. However, I screwed up.
And I don't have a single backup, so now, all I have is a copy ...
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Remove missing pictures in iPhoto
My iPhoto (iLife 11, version 9.1.5) committed sepuku. No fear, I have backups.
The backups I restored, instead of having 182GB of poorly taken pictures, ended up taking 276GB. Something failed with ...
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Is there a way to restore contacts from data.syncdb?
My friend's iPhone was stolen. I want to get her contacts back from iTunes. She didn't sync her contacts with Outlook or anything else. I found in her computer an data.syncdb file in
...
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Backing up an External USB Drive to TimeMachine then Restoring Without Drive Connected?
I have just configured my iMac to backup my external USB harddrive in addition to the internal drive.
I have just tested restoring some files from the TimeMachine backup, by selecting the USB drive ...
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Timemachine encryption restore/backup?
I'm trying to automate the creation of an encrypted sparsebundle and configure backup for a 10.7 machine using a TimeCapsule. I've created the script below
http://pastebin.com/D2nQk1j1
#!/bin/bash
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how to reinstall mountain lion after restoring my macbook pro to the factory setting
I just recently bought my macbook pro early 2011 and it was freezing all the time for whatever reason. So, I decided to restore the computer. I erase the disk using the recovery method, but I'm having ...
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Restore failed iphone 5 from iPhone 3G
I've just got iphone 5 and I wanted to restore it with my iPhone 3G information (mainly SMS). I try to restore it with iTunes by clicking the backup I had from my iPhone 3G but it says gives me an ...
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Error 2009 when restoring iPhone
I have a jailbreaked iPhone 4 and I updated from version 5 to v6 in wifi.
The screen shows only the recovery mode, but when I connect it to iTunes, it detects the iPhone but needs to update it.
When ...
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How to keep all contacts on both devices when syncing?
I have some contacts on my iphone and some on my computer. How do I sync my phone and my computer so that each has all contacts?
The first question I see when opening ITunes is "Do you want to set up ...
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How can i get back information wiped off my Iphone by accidental restore?
I plugged in my iPhone to attempt to sync so that I could update my software. The sync was not working. I looked up problem on internet and they suggested that I restore the settings on the iPhone. ...
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Restoring a new Mac Mini from TM Backup on a Pegasus R4 Drive
Trying to restore a new Mac Mini which just crashed from its Time Machine backup which is on a Promise Pegasus R4 drive. On first boot up the repaired Mac Mini does not see the Pegasus drive, so ...
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iPad update/restore fail with one machine, success on another
Interesting problem I can't find anything about: I have my iPad synced with my personal MacBook. Backups work, as far as I can tell (list of backups in Preferences window), and apps update, etc.
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Error 37 during restore
On Tuesday I've updated my (non jailbroken) iPad 1 to iOS 4.3.5. When verifying the installation of the installation an error showed up telling me (translated from German) "The iPad cannot be ...
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Setting up new iphone 5
I've restored the iphone 5 from my old iphone 4 using iTunes. ITunes is showing complete, but it still shows on the phone that it is connected to iTunes and won't let me access it to use it. How do ...
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Make iTunes Match “recognize” that I have restored music files that had been deleted?
When I first matched my library with iTunes Match, I wanted the extra space on my SSD, so made a duplicate of my C:\Users\username\Music\iTunes\iTunes Media\ folder and backed it up to an external ...
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How can I access my photos in iCloud after my iPhone4 has been restored (in other words, erased)?
My iPhone was recently restored. I had nearly full iCloud storage before the crash. How can I get my Photos back? I had approximately 1466 pics.
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How do I get my iPod touch (1st gen) out of a recovery mode boot loop?
I restored my iPod touch 1G and when it rebooted after completing restore, it got stuck showing the iTunes logo.
I tried two different methods of exiting the recovery mode as explained at
How To Fix ...
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Lost everything when adding Itunes to Iphone 4
I have only had my iphone for a few weeks. Wanted to sync it with Itunes so that I could have my music. When I went into itunes, it said that it could not sync (i did not have it on my phone at all ...
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iPhone 5 Restored - No iTunes Backup - Anyway to get data back?
I recently was resetting my passcode right after the i06 update and the phone went to sleep during the reset. When I turned it back on the only 2 passcodes I have ever used didn't work! The phone ...
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What to backup and restore from IOS using rsync?
I am backing up my jailbroken iphone using full filesystem rsync clone.
The backup command is:
rsync -axvPH --numeric-ids --delete -e 'ssh -i /root/.ssh/ifone' \
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How can I backup and restore only the “Dashboard” (do a 3 finger up swipe to see it)
I have several notes I saved on my dashboard that I would like to retrieve. I have them saved on a time machine backup, but due to a virus I re formatted my system.
How do I restore my Dashboard?
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Vectorworks crashed and deleted my file
According to the Console app vectorworks crashed because of an unhandled NSImageCacheException. For some reason, the file I was working on disappeared with the crash! Any ideas on how to restore it?
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iCloud nuances and specifics when backing up or restoring?
Backstory
I upgraded from the iPhone 4 to the iPhone 5.
This is the processed I used in order to migrate my data over.
Plug-in and Sync completely the iPhone 4 -- Making sure to backup to the ...
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How to troubleshoot Migration Assistant & Time Machine restore issues?
I just made a full backup with Time Machine. Ran it yesterday, and then again today. I have two hard drives installed in my Mac. The primary drive has the OS, Applications, data, etc. The secondary ...
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Restore iPhone 3GS backup on iPhone 4S
I backed up my iPhone 3GS using iTunes. I'm trying to restore the data into my new iPhone 4S. However, my new iPhone 4S does not appear in iTunes. How do I restore the data?
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Facebook deleted email addresses from Contacts, how to restore?
Most of my contacts that I'm also connected with on Facebook, no longer have any email address in Contacts. Sigh!
The problem is described here:
http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=13197
I ...
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Clean Install Snow Leopard without Disk — Build 10K549
I have a MacBook Pro (13-inch, Early 2011) -- shipped with Snow Leopard (Lion hadn't come out yet) -- that I need to wipe and reinstall. This is for security/privacy/performance purposes, so the goal ...
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Restoring to previous state: concerns with Carbon Copy Cloner and Time Machine conflict
One week ago I experienced an odd and catastrophic failure of my MacBook Pro. The details of the failure are not important, and the relevant parts have been replaced, among them a new HDD. Side note: ...
