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Is TimeMachine Apple's System Restore?
I have recently moved to Mac from Windows. Rarely I find that I may have to use System Restore to fix an issue that the OS has incurred. What I would like to know is whether Time Machine is the Mac ...
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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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Where are my Pages documents?
Recently replaced iMac hard drive through recall program. Used Time Machine/Seagate Backup Drive. Everything seems to be restored but my Pages documents. How do I find them?
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Restoring OS X Server Data from Time Machine
How does one restore OS X Server data from time machine on another server?
I had a Mac mini with OS X Server (Mountain Lion). It had Time Machine backups and this weekend the server experienced a ...
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How do I reinstall the OS when buying a MacBook Pro since no install media was delivered to me?
I just bought a refurbished MacBook (through a reputable retailer) and 3rd party external drive for Time Machine backups. There are no install discs and my concern is that after the warranty ends (90 ...
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Having trouble deleting old Time Machine back-ups after a restore
Due to migrating several computers over time, my MacBook Pro was bogged down with lots (and lots!) of old apps, files, etc. that I wanted to get rid of. So, I backed up to Time Machine as usual, then ...
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Restore 10.8.2 to original developer settings
So I am at a point in a rabbit hole of troubleshooting programming problems (a lot of it seems to involve my gcc and fortran compilers, but I have long lists of libraries interfering with one another) ...
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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 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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How to restore a backup to a user account? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to restore from a Time Machine backup when there is already a user account set up?
We just sold my wife's MacBook Air, and we're going to try sharing my MacBook Pro ...
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To what extent does time machine restore files [closed]
I've had some problems with my Mac recently, and thinking they were a bad block issue, I zeroed out the drive, reinstalled OS X and restored everything with Time Machine/Migration Assistant.
The ...
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My OS X Mac Mini server crashed - How can I restore it?
I have a 2011 Mac Mini Server. It is the unibody model that has two hard drives and no optical drive. I got this second hand so I don't have anything other than the machine itself.
The way I ...
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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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Can I restore individual iCal appointments using Time Machine?
I use Time Machine to backup my Mac. While it is very easy to restore files and folders, I can't do the same with appointments in iCal. I am trying to recover an entire calendar that was accidentally ...
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Is is possible to add tag, notes or labels to backups made by Time Machine?
Is it possible to add label, tag or notes to Time Machine backups. Lets say after fresh reinstall of OS X - label it as "Base System 1" then after few days (at some point with more software/work) ...
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Account on Mac restored from Time Machine has FileVault turned off
My Mac book pro was stolen.
ML 10.8.2.
I successfully restored all system from Time Machine backup.
I remember having turned on FileVault on my user account on original system.
But on restored system ...
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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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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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What is the rsync command to restore from a TimeMachine backup
I couldn't get my TimeMachine backup to restore, so I just used rsync. What are the flags I should use? I just used:
rsync -av /path/to/backup /path/to/restore
Can it be that simple?
My backup was ...
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How to restore hidden Library folder in Time Machine
I want to restore the hidden user Library folder from Time Machine but I am unable to see it when I enter Time Machine. Read on.
I thought the hidden Library folder would appear if I used the ...
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Restoring iTunes/iPhoto Libraries After a Clean Install
I have an iMac i7 that's got a collection of files, settings, etc. that's the culmination of being transferred from past machines (originally an iMac G4, then a PowerMac G5).
I finally decided to ...
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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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Restoring a MacBook from backup
I have a MacBook Pro that is just being ridiculous, so I'm planning on erasing the hard drive and restoring from a Time Machine backup. I hear that Time Machine will only restore from backups that ...
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Reinstalling OS X Lion vs restoring from Time Machine backup
If the system doesn't boot up (it was due to this issue), is it better to reinstall OS X Lion, or restore from a Time Machine backup?
I do see a Time Machine backup from 3 AM last night, so if that ...
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If my timemachine was done with lion, but my host is snow leopard, how will it restore?
What I want is for my Mac to go back to exactly as it was, which was with lion.
Of course, there's no lion disk, so I've done a clean reinstall with snow leopard (new drive).
Should I restore from a ...
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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: ...
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HOME dir on another disk, how do I restore from TM backup?
I have two disks in my MBP. One is small SSD for the OS and applications, and the other is slow HDD for my HOME folder, downloads and stuff like that.
I have Time Machine set up. Everything seems to ...
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Clean Lion install, keeping Time Machine history?
I have a 2011 unibody MacBook Pro, and have been gathering kludge on it for some time, and on previous machines (2007 MacBook Pro, 2004 Powerbook) whose data I've migrated over using the Migration ...
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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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How to restore time machine backup to a new machine running a different version of the Mac OS?
The hard disk in my wife's iMac, which was running Leopard, just died. She has an up to date Time Machine backup. I want to restore the backup to her new MacBook Pro, which is running Lion.
I ...
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restore from time machine without a mac
I want to restore a couple files from a time machine chronicle of backups, but I don't have the mac to restore them to.
How do I search for files within just using the folder structure
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Restoring Lion/iCloud iCal from Time Machine
Well I managed to delete my calendar, which was being synched via iCloud with my Mac, iPad, and iPhone.
Can I repopulate my iCal calendar from a Time Machine backup? ~/Library/ contains a folder ...
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Can Time Machine restore from one large hard drive to two smaller ones?
I'm about to put a SSD (60GB) into my MacBook Pro, the disc drive is coming out and the current drive (320GB) will sit in a bracket in its place. I'd like to use the SSD as the main drive for the OS, ...
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Can I backup my Time Machine drive to the cloud and restore it to any other drive?
I currently backup my Mac to a local Time Machine drive.
I'd like to start periodically backing up that drive to the cloud, using an as of yet unchosen solution.
Once it's backed up to the cloud, ...
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How do I restore a case-sensitive, journaled Time Machine backup to a case-insensitive, journaled filesystem?
I would effectively like to switch from a case-sensitive journaled filesystem to that of a case-insensitive journaled filesystem. Booting into Lion's recovery allows me to format the drive as I wish, ...
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Can I use Time Machine to restore to a smaller disk
I have used Time Machine to restore my MBP to a larger HDD with great success, but am about to purchase a smaller SSD for it.
With the obvious caveat of not having more data than the SSD can hold, is ...
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Why can't I get my Time Capsule to connect to a new wireless network?
[Backstory for this question: I'm staying in someone else's apartment currently. All equipment mentioned in this post is being connected to their existing wireless network. That network is broadcast ...
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Can I restore a Snow Leopard backup onto a Lion machine?
So I am a little confused and slightly worried, and I was wondering if someone could answer this.
I have a Time Machine backup saved on an external HD for my Mac mini that is running the latest ...
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Can I restore only selected files from Time Machine Backup after a fresh OS X re-install?
I'm thinking to reinstall my Mac OS X on my Macbook Pro and starting fresh (instead of recovering from a Time Machine backup)
The question is:
If I do that, after OS X is reinstalled, will I be able ...
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How do I use time machine to restore my entire computer, rather than a file?
Is is possible? What is the easiest (most hassle-free) way of accomplishing this?
