Questions tagged [restore]
The reverse procedure of backup, to restore is to put information from a backup back onto the computer system. Avoid using for export / import or other definitions of the term, please.
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How to restore the iPhone without downloading the latest version of iOS?
I am trying to unlock my old iPhone using the guide from apple. On step 4 "Restore your iPhone with your Mac or PC" it says
Your computer downloads software for your iPhone and begins the ...
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Development environment backup/restore with Time Machine?
I'm having my MacBook reinstalled by the IT dept, and want to avoid wasting days to get my environment back up they way I want it - devtools, various tools I installed through homebrew, git setup, ...
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Apple TV 4K with blinking white light of death: is it just an expensive paperweight/e-waste now?
This weekend my Apple TV 4K (1st gen) started erratically responding to remote commands, and then a very small circular progress indicator in the middle of the screen. I waited for a long time, then ...
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Trouble restoring from iCloud Backup without old phone
My old iPhone died and I am trying to set up a replacement. When I get to the "Transfer Your Apps & Data" step (see first picture below) I choose "From iCloud Backup" (because ...
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Why does my Time Machine restore inflate in size by double or more?
I made a brand new clean Time Machine backup of my 500Gb MacBook Air running Sonoma 14.6.1. which was using around 444Gb of its disk. I then installed Sonoma to a clean re-formatted 1Tb external hard ...
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Can't inherit / associatedisk TimeMachine backups (APFS) from a reformatted external drive
I had to reformat an external raid drive (called Joshua) after expanding its size. After reformatting it, I restored it from our TM drive (called Moses). However once everything is copied over and I ...
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Is there a way to find/restore files from temporary printing folder?
I have opened my visa application page with Print Preview and thought that it was saved this way. But now, I can't find it anywhere on my mac, and there is not way to review it on the website either.
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How to recover 'my iphone' directory and files?
I wanted to install the available iOS update on my iPhone 11. I did not have enough space available, so I got to the 'storage' part of the settings menu where all the apps are listed and the storage ...
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How can I restore my applications and data backed up to a micro SD card to a properly formatted drive?
I backed up the entire system into a 1 TB micro SD card. At the time, I was using an APFS-formatted HDD. Then I read that APFS was not the best format for old Macs like mine, so I thought why not ...
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How to restore specific files from time machine to a different folder
I want to restore the keychain library from my older Mac, which I don't have anymore. But I don't want to overwrite the existing keychain. The Time Machine interface only lets me restore files in ...
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How to restore mail account settings to replacement iphone?
Have a first generation iPhone SE that I am completely happy with, except that it's battery is starting to fail and is very clearly at the end of its functional life. Rather than get a new phone or ...
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Simple alternative to time machine that actually allows a full restore without internet connection and OS reinstallation
I just attempted to restore a time machine backup after the latest Sonoma upgrade severely degraded several applications. When I selected a version I wanted to restore to on the recovery screen (...
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How many iPhone backup copies are kept on iCloud?
(I see this question has been asked before, but long ago).
I had a scare with my iPhone (iOS 17.4.1, iPhone 11) that seems resolved -- I thought I could have gotten a virus (the probability now seems ...
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"Restore" iPad from older model
I have an iPad6 (running iOS 17.4.1) which just appears to have died (the battery has been running out in a few hours but appears it is not charging - or very slowly). I had planned to get a new iPad, ...
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iPad 4 stuck in update/restore loop
I have an iPad 4 running 9.3.1. I put it in recovery mode and connected it to my PC. Now iTunes keeps telling me to update or restore it, but regardless of whether I click "update" or "...
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Bootable External Drive Issue on Apple Silicon M2- Need Help Resolving
I've been encountering difficulties with my bootable external drive on my Apple Silicon M2.I can boot Successfully on M1 mac. I've tried creating the bootable drive using ASR, Carbon Copy Cloner, and ...
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Restore lost "last session" of preview
I'm on MacOS Sonoma. I have been using Preview extensively for research and had quite a lot of pdf's open (to be able to pick up where I left at later time).
I have set Preview to reopen all ...
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Erase & reset user settings without losing my files
I want to reset all the user settings that have changed on my MacBook, without losing any of my user files.
My issue: I've made a lot of changes to my system as a developer: user permissions, ...
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No startup disk to restart from after closing Disk Utilities screen
My 15" MacBook Pro starts up and goes to the disk utilities. Following a solution to close the utility window I then see the "Choose Startup Disk" but there isn't a system to choose ...
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iTunes backup not showing up anymore in iTunes
Help. I can not access my iPhone backup saved on my laptop in iTunes anymore
My iphone was acting up and had to be repaired, so I made a backup before the reparation in iTunes which was saved on my ...
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How to restore only WhatsApp contents from a iTunes backup?
I have an iPhone 14 Pro, of which I regularly perform full backups (with encryption) using iTunes running on Windows.
I uninstalled WhatsApp by mistake on the iPhone; I reinstalled it, but now all my ...
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What is the proper way to transfer from an old iPhone to new one?
When I transfer from an old iPhone to a newly purchased one using the auto detect (i.e. hey we found a new iPhone nearby, click to continue), I need to log into all the apps and set up Face ID again, ...
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Can I do a merge restore from Time Machine
A few months ago for some reason that is not important, a large number of my files were mistakenly deleted. I did not notice for several weeks, so the later backups are of the remaining files only. I ...
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Mac OS system restore using Time Machine from bootable USB- Big Sur and later
I have a close friend in a rural area whose typical download speed is 6 Mbps. They're running macOS Monterey. System restoration using Time Machine from the internal recovery partition would be ...
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Identifying a software issue that drains battery (after new battery install)
I've got an iPhone 12 with the latest iOS updates. After the battery was draining quite quickly at 81% health, I took the phone to an Apple certified repair shop and had a new battery installed.
The ...
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Restoring from APFS Time Machine backup that includes always-connected external drive: Do I need to format the external drive?
I have an APFS (case-sensitive, encrypted) Time Machine backup that includes both my internal SSD (APFS) and a much larger APFS volume on an external SSD. The backup containing both is on a slow but ...
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Restoring iPad from backup
I backed up an iPad a week ago in preparation for a repair. In the new iPad, it wouldn't restore the backup in the startup process, said the OS needed to be updated. Backup is still inaccessible. Then ...
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WhatsApp Backup from low storage iPhone: How can I keep my old media and back up new chats at the same time?
I lost my iPhone 13 Pro Max (512GB) and I had everything backed up on iCloud including WhatsApp chats.
I got a new iPhone 14 Pro Max (256GB) and all of my WhatsApp chats recovered, but not the media, ...
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Can an iPhone be "reset" without updating to a new iOS?
I'm reading too many conflicting things about this, so I'm asking here in the hopes to get a reasonably current, informed answer/solution.
I have an original iPhone SE an I love it. It's the perfect ...
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Restore from iCloud backup without erasing all contents
The instructions from Apple for restoring from a backup say that all contents need to be erased first: Restore your device from an iCloud backup
If you’ve already set up your device, you will need ...
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Can you restore a macOS Sonoma Time Machine Backup onto a fresh Ventura install?
I've upgraded my MacBook Pro 14" (2021) to the macOS Sonoma Beta, but I'd like to reset it to macOS Ventura. However, I've used the beta for over a month and there are a lot of files that have ...
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MacOS downgrade. Restore Time Machine backup on older OS
I've been surprisingly stupid to believe Apple that MacOS Ventura is a worthy upgrade and didn't make a Time Machine copy prior to upgrade. Now I'm amazed by how Apple screwed up my previously perfect ...
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How to Revert to Previous State on Manga App?
I was on a manga app (Manga Reader - Manga Viewer by Yubo Wang) when I had accidentally pressed the ‘Restore’ button, which uses an iCloud backup to restore your ‘favourites’ and reading history. My ...
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Unable to restore 2016 MacBook Pro
I am trying to restore the OS on a MacBook Pro (2016, touchbar). I've looked at all the answers I can find on here but none seem to address my issue.
I erased the disk but the restore process isn't ...
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How to only overwrite metadata (specifically date file attributes) between files that have the same contents with the older/more accurate attributes?
I have a situation where a backup has correct Date Modified and other correct metadata. A large volume of these files were copied accidentally without the correct rsync flags (eg, rsync -a does not ...
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Restoring older iCloud backup [duplicate]
I recently deleted some important text messages and the only way I think I can get them back is to restore from iCloud backup (in my case the restore deleted text messages option is not possible).
I ...
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Unable to open a .img image copied over ssh from Linode
My Linode instance is corrupted after I did an inline upgrade of Ubuntu from 14 LTS to 16 LTS. After trying relentlessly for over one week, I decided to extract the data from one of my backups and ...
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Unable to re-install macOS on my Mac Mini 2014 [duplicate]
I have a MacMini from 2014.
It has an SSD which I formatted so now it has no OS on it. I tried internet recovery several times but every time I get the error "An Error Occurred While Preparing ...
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How do I keep a full Time Machine restoration from changing the filesystem type?
I'm stuck on upgrading from Mojave to Catalina. (Yes, I'm late to the party.)
My most recent Time Machine backups continue to be from my Mojave system on an HFS+ Mac OS Extended (Journaled) filesystem....
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Restore iPhone Note from iCloud
On an iPhone with iOS 16, how does one restore a single note from iCloud? I need to recover the proper version of the note.
(I did not delete the file. I edited it, and Notes doesn't seem to have an ...
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How to associate a new external disk with complete Time Machine history
I want to restore my external USB drive to a new drive from a Time Machine backup. I used sudo tmutil associatedisk as was suggested in this answer to a similar question. The actual restoring worked ...
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TimeMachine restore: Can select backup, but get "No macOS system backups were found"
The SSD on my 2015 MacBook Pro died, and I got it replaced with a used SSD from another MacBook containing Catalina. The machine boots now normally, ready to restore from backup.
I tried to restore ...
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Why does my iPhone not show all the backup to restore?
I forgot to backup a chat history of my messaging app before reinstalling it, so tried to restore my iPhone with a yesterday's backup, but after erasing all the data and going into restore option, I ...
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How to get access to my iCloud backup if I neither have access to my other iDevices nor the phone number under which it was registered?
About a year ago, I changed my phone number but never updated it in my iCloud account to the new one. Now, I lost access to all my iDevices and I want to restore my iCloud backup to an iPhone I got ...
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Time machine restore to new external drive
As you read through this post, for reference, the machine on which I'm trying all of this is running Big Sur.
I was using Time Machine to back up an external drive that failed. Having purchased a new ...
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How to restore email from a Time Machine backup?
Does anyone have experience restoring email from a Time Machine backup? This was easier in earlier versions of MacOS, when Time Machine provided a UI through the Mail program itself. Now it seems to ...
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What does restoring an iPad from an iPhone backup actually do?
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Recently, one of my relatives upgraded her iPad Air 2 to iPadOS 15.6.1. She recalls that she purchased the iPad in 2013 and it hadn't been upgraded recently; it may have still been running a ...
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Is there any possibility of recovering data from a formatted drive that was APFS encrypted?
I accidentally formatted an external drive that was APFS encrypted. The new format is also APFS (Encrypted).
Is there any way to restore the formatted data from the old encrypted drive? I know the ...
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How to restore a specific file from APFS Time Machine backup drive with tmutil?
I've been using an HFS+ drive for Time Machine, but I recently formatted a drive in APFS as my Time Machine backup drive on macOS Monterey. Now I find the implementation with APFS very confusing.
If I ...
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How to do a TM backup so that you can do a FULL restore using OSX utilities?
I patched my older MBP to Monterey 12.6 and have a current Time Machine backup. When I rebooted it failed and I used Command R to get to a screen that allowed access to my drives.
It didn't allow me ...
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