Questions tagged [restore]
The reverse procedure of backup, to restore is to put information from a backup back onto the computer system.
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Is it possible to temporarily skip media restore in WhatsApp?
I use WhatsApp on an iPhone X. I have chat history and media backed up on my iCloud. The total size of the backup is around 6 GB.
I had to send in the iPhone X for repair, and I’m using a temporarily ...
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Upgrade then restore, or the other way around?
I'm in a situation where I simply cannot upgrade my Mac – the installer says that my disk cannot be used as a startup disk. This probably has to do with me installing dual-boot partitions, but I'm not ...
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How to prevent browser from redirecting AT ALL using terminal
I have a very limited knowledge of this stuff so I hope this explanation makes sense....
My parents have somehow got on my MacBook, and made it so that they can change any setting and view/modify my ...
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iOS 12.1.4 - Photos stuck on uploading after iTunes restore
I restored my iPhone XS using the iTunes Backup I had saved on my Mac.
Everything went back in place and also the pictures showed as being all there but, at the bottom of the Photos Library there was ...
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What’s the point of iTunes backup restoring?
I have just substituted my iPhone XS due to a camera fault and restored it from iTunes backup.
My phone is 256gb in storage and therefore I use to have all my Photos library (about 12.000 elements) ...
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Safari won't load pages after system restore
I hope someone can advise please...
A few days ago I had to restore my whole system from Time Machine backup after a power outage stopped my Mac from booting up. Everything seems fine, except for ...
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Want to Restore Android Backup to iPhone [closed]
I backed up my android phone (lg g7) to google, then sold the phone. I no longer have it in my possession.
I now have a new iphone xr and wish to restore that backup to my iPhone - call history, sms,...
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can't shrink the system partition in order to clone and swap disk
I wanted to swap my 1TB old iMac HDD to a 1TB SSD but apparently it's not that easy with diskutil under mojave recovery system.
From a disk to disk it's impossible since the disc is complaining to not ...
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Can’t restore from Time Machine on Mojave
I’m on the latest Mojave. Tried full restore from the backup and caught an error. (“error: -5000” while the restore process was copying a _MASReceipt/receipt file from one of the apps.)
Tried ...
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I forgot a password for iPhone 5C, error 4013 if try to restore
I was not using my iPhone 5C for a long time and forgot a password for it. How to use it now? I left it for some time without a power and the only thing it forgot was time, so now it writes that next ...
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Restore Backup can this still be done after choosing setup as new?
I want to Restore my iPad, I have already created a backup on my Windows 7 PC using iTunes. When I restore my Ipad, as far as I remember from some tutorials online, you will have to choose to restore ...
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How can I restore macOS on a MacBook if all the data on the hard drive is wiped/corrupted?
I want to be secure against a worst-case scenario because I'm about to start tinkering with my SSD (going to try installing Linux). What backup methods would allow me to perform a clean reinstall (I'm ...
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How to make a bootable USB drive from a dmg containing multiple partitions
I have a USB flash drive of the Mojave installer from which I created a dmg containing two partitions: the installer partition and a custom EFI partition. The drive booted and installed fine.
How do ...
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Can Time Machine files be restored across different OSs?
I am backing up my MacBook Air that runs OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 to an external Hard Drive using Time Machine. I have another older MacBook that runs Mac OS X 10.6.8. If I wipe the hard drive of the ...
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How can I clean install of Sierra after trying Mojave upgrade?
I upgraded a Mac to Mojave and found it did not function the same as previous OS. I get a lot of people want to move forward, but I wish to go back to how my Mac was
I now need to clean install ...
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How to downgrade to OS X Yosemite 10.10? (Have not yet upgraded)
I have a 2015 iMac 5k running OS X Yosemite 10.10.x. I've always been nervous about upgrading an expensive machine. Now I am curious about upgrading, but I would like to find an option that would ...
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MacBook Pro stuck on white screen
I have a MacBook Pro mid 2013.
As you may have guessed from the title, it won't boot.
Neither the Disk Utility boots.
The only thing I can do is boot from a bootable USB (CMD + OPTION + R) with OSX ...
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I made a backup of my iPad Pro using iTunes. Can I restore that backup onto another iPad?
I made a backup of my iPad Pro using iTunes. The backup is on my PC not on iCloud.
The iPad broke a few days later, so I went to a store to make the AppleCare valid, we formatted it on the store.
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How to restore messages when Messages in iCloud is enabled?
How can I restore deleted messages when Messages in iCloud is enabled?
Historically one would just restore the iPhone to an earlier iCloud Backup however I have attempted to do that but since ...
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iPhone keeps restarting itself every 3 minutes
I just got an iPhone 5 from my friend. It worked well and I decided to restore it to reset it. Yet it is now restarting itself every 3 minutes so I'm trying to do a factory restore. While letting it ...
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Lost preview.app. How to get it back?
After resetting my Mac from a backup (High Sierra, version 10.13.6), I somehow lost the preview.app. It's not there. I still see remnants like com.apple.Preview.plist (yet, no com.apple.preview folder)...
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recover files from newer time machine backup after restore to older state
I have recently restored my machine's state (December) to an older state (November), but forgot to save a couple files from December. When I go into Time machine the December state is not available, ...
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iCloud Backups removed by Apple
I was hoping to restore my iPhone (that I use regularly and have iCloud backup enabled on) to a backup from a few days back. I have purchased a ton of space from Apple for iCloud for the purpose of ...
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Boot Camp not able to find Mac image
I am using a 2015 15" MacBook Pro with 512 GB storage. There are a couple of issues that happened very quickly, so I will give you the comlete timeline:
I logged into macOS.
I noticed that Caps Lock ...
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How to restore iPhone using laptop
So I erased my iPhone but my Home button broke off after dropping it. Is there any way to restore it through my laptop?
When I click on restore nothing happens.
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iPhone data recovery after restoring using iTunes without back up
By mistake my wife connected to iTunes and restored iPhone with mine iPhones backup. She lost all data from her iPhone and now I can't recovery her data because it never backed up to iTunes or iCloud. ...
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After restore, Photos is uploading items
Last week I backed up my phone on my local iTunes. I switched to "Optimise iPhone Storage" for Photos to keep the size of the backup small.
After I restored the phone, Photos says "Uploading 30,000 ...
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High Sierra with Yosemite Time machine restore
I had made a High Sierra clear installation in my old Mac Book Pro 13"(Mid 2010) where I had put also a new SSD HD. After this I restored my Yosemite Time Machine backup. It said that it will erase my ...
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Problem with iPhone starting up completely
I went to turn on my phone and I got a black screen with a circle going round and round. The phone will not turn off and will not respond when pushing the home button. Can anyone help?
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macOS not allowing me to restore media files from one external drive to another
I am trying to restore media from an external drive to another
external drive now both the partitions have been formatted with the
same partition map GUID partition map (I am also getting an APFS
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How to Restore backup from external drive to itunes or iphone in Windows 8?
I back my iPhone up to My Windows 8. Since I don't have much space on my C: Drive, I moved my iTunes backup folder to an external drive (mklink/J "%APPDATA%\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup" "J:\...
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This disk does not have enough space to restore your system
Backstory: I upgraded from a 1TB SSD to a 2TB hybrid drive, by restoring the system from a Time Machine backup — no hassles there. A few months later, disappointed by the new drive, I want to swap ...
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Is it possible to restore a macbook pro to an earlier date without an external hard drive backup?
I've read that "Time Machine" is the appropriate tool for restoring a Mac to an earlier state. Time Machine requires the use of some external storage device.
If I remember correctly from Windows, ...
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Trying to downgrade to High Sierra but Time Machine restore upgrades back to Mojave
I've been having major issues with Mojave - slow-downs, connectivity issues, crashing - you name it. I tried to downgrade back to High Sierra.
High Sierra gets installed fresh, but my Time Machine ...
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Disk Utility “restore from” list does not include any volumes
I want to copy a volume from an old MacBook Pro to a new one. I mounted the old one using Target Firewire Mode. I made a new APFS volume on the new machine. When I tell Disk Utility that I want to ...
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Restoring the RAW external backup drive Time Machine backups
My external hard drive suddenly started to be recognised as one RAW partition. This drive had all of my Time Machine backups. With EaseUS Data Recovery software I was able to recover Backups.backupdb ...
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My own iPhone 7 is locked with foreign account after simple reset
I have an issue with my iPhone 7 Plus, which today I wanted to replace with the XS.
After backing it up to a Macbook and then resetting the old phone, I logged in to the Apple ID site to remove the ...
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Ipad Mini Not Restoring?
The pass-code has been entered incorrectly on my Ipad so many times that a screen showed up saying:
Ipad is Disabled. Connect to Itunes
I have tried two methods to restoring the Ipad.
Connect the ...
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Searching for lost .pem file in time machine back up
I recently had to wipe my apple mac, and I have been using time machine to back up my mac. I would like to retrieve a specific file (a .pem file) which I use to log in to my Uni server.
I have tried ...
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How to restore entire system with time machine on a new mac?
OS: High Sierra
My first Macbook was defective and I want to recover the entire system from my time machine backup onto the replacement. However, if I follow the installation assistant and recover ...
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unable to restore backup because not enough space
I tried restoring a backup I created from my iPhone (it had more than 20Gb free out of 64Gb) but when I wanted to restore this backup I found out the backup iTunes created was 61.5Gb, so whenever I ...
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How should I restore my Library folder from backup archive?
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 ...
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How to make sure apps remain available after upgrading macOS?
I want to upgrade macOS on my father's Mac, as it's quite out of date (currently running Mac OS X 10.6.8). I understand how to back up files before upgrading, but what about apps? For example, he ...
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How to make Time Machine inherit backup history after restoring from Time Machine
I received my MacBook Pro back from repair (got a new Logic Board which includes the SSD) and restored from my Time Machine backup. I made sure to restore everything, including all settings. Now I ...
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Manually restoring macOS System folder
I have been trying to restore using migration assistant from an Airport Time Capsule with no success despite following multiple support avenues.
I’m now trying to manually restore all my files but ...
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Slow High Sierra after restore from Time Capsule
So I had a hard drive (SSD) failure some time ago (it lasted 5 years of intense use, so I kinda expected that to happen).
Luckily I had my Time Capsule running all the time, so it was a no brainer to ...
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iOS - Recovering data from device after reset
I would like to give away my 1st Generation iPad. If I reset it by selecting Reset All Content and Settings, would it be possible for someone to restore the data (passwords, photos, etc.) which are ...
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Removing public beta failing
Information:
Model Identifier: MacBookPro11,4
System Version: macOS 10.13.5 (17F77)
iOS 12
Read the first: How to remove iOS 12.0 Public Beta from iPhone 8 in order to restore archived iOS 11.4 ...
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Undo iPhone restore from backup
I connected my iPhone to my MacBook Pro for the first time. I wanted to save photos from iPhone to Mac and get some music on my iPhone.
I, unknowingly, chose to restore backup rather than setting up ...
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Resume Restore issue after internet goes offline
How do I resume a restore from iCloud on a new iPhone 8? The restore was halted when our Internet network went (scheduled) offline.
