Activation problem after Time Machine recovery

How can I get Adobe to re-authorize my recovered Photoshop (CS4) app? This isn't a re-installation, or an installation on a new computer. Only my same-as-always iMac that had a hard drive problem and needed a fresh recovered copy of Photoshop from backup.

You need to reinstall it properly.
Mylenium

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Not a valid photoshop document after time machine recovery and reinstall of photoshop

After a time machine recovery most of my photoshop documents recovered fine, however there are a select few (and my most recent work unfortuantely) that seem corrupt. It isn't all of my documents. Trying to recover them again from back-up doesn't seem to be working. I did have to reinstall photoshop CS4 after the recovery.
I have seen similar questions on here but none of the solutions have worked. I've tried opening with other programs, I've tried changing the file extentions etc. If the files were just corrupt recovering them from time machine should fix the problem. Many thanks if you can assist.

SaveChaos wrote:
…but it doesn't feel like corrupt files are the problem…
If it's only a few selected files that are misbehaving but others do open without problems, then you do have file corruption in each of those files.
Go back in time machine to the earliest possible date after each file was created and restore only that particular version of the file.
If that doesn't work, then considered the files irretrievably lost. What kind of error message do they return when you try to open them?
In any event, it's imperative that you check the SMART status of your drive and Repair Drive (or at least Verify Drive) to check for a failing drive.
As an aside, taking a belt-and-suspender approach, it's my practice to supplement Time Machine with a clone of my working drive and daily backups of my files. For some reason, I've had three Time Machine disks fail on three different Macs and locations in the last six months or so.
I had Time Machine disabled on all my Macs until I decided to give it one more test run on a 65-lb Mac Pro recently. I'm not convinced one way or another yet, so all other Macs still have TM disabled for now. Time Machine is very intrusive, and the external TM drives run much, much hotter than external storage files—always a troubling sign in my book.

Slow backup (and spotlight problems) after time machine restore

Hi All,
After having some shaky moments with my macbook pro's internal hard drive, I have now installed a new one. I am running the latest version of 10.6.8.
The machine is running fine after a restore from my Time machine backup, but there are a few problems:
1) Time machine is now making a new backup - it looks like it wants to do a complete backup, which is ok as I have the space. However, after about 30 mins it has completed 156k and is now running at about 1k a second (or less).
2) Spotlight is reindexing, but appears to be stuck on "Estimating indexing time".
3) I tried opening mail, and it said it had to convert my mailbox - it got part way through the number of messages and stopped. I force quite, I'll try that one again later.
Any ideas for 1) and 2) above? I can't see any odd looking messages in the console...
Cheers

So... thought I'd update this since it may help someone else later...
The time machine backup completed fine in the end - it looked like it wanted to do a complete backup but I think it just did a delta in the end.
The spotlight reindex ran for about another 6 hours, judging by the console messages.
However, now I'm trying to run mail - and it's stuck on importing the mailbox - it got to 14157 of 57904 and stopped there. The "time remaining" is increasing by about 5 minutes every minute....
I've seen the following message in the console, which I also saw while it was trying to do the spotlight index last night:
NSDataMessageStore: couldn't find body
Anyway, I'll let it run and see what happens...

Some iPhoto pictures missing after time machine recovery, were there errors reported during backup that I missed?

Hello. I used time machine/time capsule to automatically back up my sytem over the last 3 years and I used the backups to recover my system to a new hard drive when the original drive began to fail. After recovery, I noticed there are missing photos in iPhoto.
I'm curios where I should look to see why they weren't backed up, and why it wasn't obvious to me at the time that they weren't backed up.
Does time machine explicitly call out issues when it can't back up a file or does it just squirrel a message away in the system log?
I'd like to know because I'd like avoid this issue going forward.
Full disclosure & History -
The hard drive on my late 2009 27" iMac was exhibiting issues and started to go bad. No problem I thought, I'll get a new one and recover the system from my time capsule.
The full recovery was initiated from the OS install media. Upon recovery, the system wouldn't boot. After booting from the OS install media and reinstalling the OS on top of the recovered data the system booted and seemed to retain almost everything. This may not be the best way to recover but it seemed to work.
I additionally had to:
repatch the OS
reinstall iWork
relicense MS Office (otherwise office seemed to be intact)
When I started looking through my iPhoto libraries, there were some events with no pictures (mostly the newer events). I couldn't find the pictures on the time capsule either so I'm curios if there was anyway I could have known that backups weren't completing successfully. I had run a time machine incremental backup before pulling out the old hard drive and it seemed to complete successfully so I'm at a loss. I can understand that as the hard drive began to fail, there may have been issues backing up the data, but I somehow missed it if/when the problems were reported.
Should I go through the old system logs that were backed up on the time capsule and look for backupd messages/errors? Going forward, how do I know if there are backup issues?
It took me a couple weeks to realize the drive was failing. I had noticed that the system performance was getting bad, and the system would occassionally hang. It would come back OK after a restart. I thought it was because the filesystem was getting close to full (30GB left on a 1 TB drive) so I was chasing down cleaning up some data to make more room. There were suggestions in other forums to try and keep the filesystem 10% free.
While moving data from the internal drive to a new external drive (to free up space) the system would hang. I eventually found a couple disk0 errors in the kernel log and I actually witnessed disk0 disappear while running an iostat. I'm thinking it took me too long to know the disk was going bad, and so the pictures I imported over the last 3-4 weeks may be gone.
I still have the original drive so I'll see if anything else can be salvaged from it.
Looking for some suggestions on
1) the ability to know if time machine backups are successful and are in sync with my system
2) the ability to know when there are hardware issues that I should be aware of
If you got to this point, thanks for taking the time to read through all this.
Regards,
-mike

Hi Mike,
I just saw this post and saw no one has responded. You might have figured out but in case, I wanted to let you know what I found out. I had the same problem. Hard drive failure, they installed a new one and my iPhoto pictures were missing. I couldn't find them on Time Machine either which baffled (and frustrated) me b/c I just backed up my drive and I was missing pictures from over a year ago.
I found this article and it allowed me to at least find my pictures...so they weren't lost after all.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/16029742#16029742
As for why they aren't showing up in iPhoto or Time Machine, the lady at the Mac store said it is probably an OS conflict. Which makes sense since I can see the actual pictures in the iPhoto content file (per the article mentioned above). However, I didn't have my computer with me at the store to have a Genius person help me resolve the conflict.
BUT, if you can find the pictures, then maybe you can reimport them into iPhoto? Just a thought.
Good luck!

Disk Utility missing after Time Machine Recovery

My MacPro 2014 had OS 10.9.5 as its operating system and I upgraded to Yosemite, which was a disaster because all the fonts and graphics became blurry (I don't use a Retina Display monitor) which is a known bug waiting to be fixed in an update. I decided to go back to OS 10.9.5 by using Time Machine and Recovery. I recovered the old system onto one of my external hard drives and then used Super Duper to copy that back to my original Mac Pro SSD hard drive. The problem is Disk Utility is missing. It doesn't appear in Spotlight and is not in the Applications/Utility folder. I restarted in Recovery mode and Disk Utility is present there, and I used it to repair the Hard Drive. After restart, still no Disk Utility. Help!!

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After Time Machine Recovery Safari can access internet but Chrome not?!

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Empty Mailboxes after Time Machine Recovery

I just replace my iMac's hard drive and used Time Machine to restore software. However all my mailboxes are now empty, except for 8 new mail messages in my Inbox. Can someone please tell me how to find and restore my mailboxes? Thanks in anticipation.

Hey! I got an simliar problem her. My local folder in Mail seems to be empty after recovering my mac from TimeMachine.
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IMac keeps shutting down after Time Machine recovery

I have a late 2007 iMac. The hardrive died, so I installed a new SSD. I have a Time Machine backp on a usb drive and aslo a bootable usb drive created a couple of months ago. I installed Maverics on the new SSD (I was running Maverics before as well), and up to this point everything worked fine. Than I started from Recovery Drive and run Recovery from Time Machine. It seemed to be working fine, but after it was done, the iMac shut down. Now every time I start it, it chimes, the gray background with apple appears, and it shuts down immediately.I repeated the whole proces twice, same thing happend. I also tried to do migration instead of recovey, which worked, but that didn't copy all my files, just the program files.
I have no clue, what to do. Any suggestions?

I have a late 2007 iMac. The hardrive died, so I installed a new SSD. I have a Time Machine backp on a usb drive and aslo a bootable usb drive created a couple of months ago. I installed Maverics on the new SSD (I was running Maverics before as well), and up to this point everything worked fine. Than I started from Recovery Drive and run Recovery from Time Machine. It seemed to be working fine, but after it was done, the iMac shut down. Now every time I start it, it chimes, the gray background with apple appears, and it shuts down immediately.I repeated the whole proces twice, same thing happend. I also tried to do migration instead of recovey, which worked, but that didn't copy all my files, just the program files.
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Problem after Time Machine restore

So i just did a time machine restore since i replaced the HD in my old macbook, and whenever i start up the machine it stays at grey screen and eventually pulls up a folder with a ? mark. But if I hold down option at start up and select the drive, it boots fine, even if i do a restart from start up settings in system preferences it works fine. Just if I'm booting after shut down, it won't work without holding option key, Is there something I did wrong, or anyway I could fix it?

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You also should make sure that the partition scheme of the drive is not MBR & that the file format of the startup volume is "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)." Disk Utility will tell you both of these characteristics when you select the drive & the volume respectively from the list on the left. (Look at the bottom of the window for this info.)
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Mail problem after Time Machine restore

New to the community..........hello everyone!
I just did a Time Machine restore and everything seems to be fine except
for the fact that my mail seems to be stuck.........spinning as if there was mail to be sent out?
I found a post with a similar problem: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1897021&tstart=0
Just wondering if I should follow the advice mentioned on that post or is there an easier way to resolve this issue?
Thanks

Make sure your out going mail server set up is correct according to what your ISP requires. Mail>Preferences>Accounts>Account Information.

Password doesn't work after time machine recovery!

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Problem after Time Machine pause

I just bought a a new 500 GB hard drive just for time machine. I reformatted it to mac, plugged it in and started archiving. Everything was running smoothly. I had to put the computer to sleep. I was told to to click on the dock icon and hit option and select 'stop backing up'. I was told when I wanted to start it again, it would just pick up where it left off. I did that and it took a very long time with the "preparing" screen. Then when that stopped, it seemed to be stuck on 48 KB out of 177.50 GB. It never increased in size even the the arrows were still moving in a circle. Is this normal? Is something wrong? I was told this time machine business would be easy and would not be an issue. Should I start all over? If so how do I do that?

Hello tyler:
I do not know what happened.....I have not experienced anything similar. To start over, reformat the external HD and restart. Time machine should ask you if you want to use that drive as a time machine drive. Incidentally, the first backup takes quite awhile - in my case, about two hours.
Barry

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Last week, I partition a 320 G Samsung external hard drive into a 300G volume (format: Mac OS extended (journaled)) for Time Machine, and other 20G NTFS for data exchange between Mac and Windows. At the same time, I stored 40G IMPORTANT data in the 300G volume.
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Please help! The data matters a lot to me!!

Specifically you screen shot does not show anything.
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I followed the following instructions provided on another thread (Open Directory: "Unable to load replica list"):
Many Open Directory problems can be resolved by taking the following steps.
1. The OD master must have a manually-assigned IP address on the local network, not a dynamic address.
2. The primary DNS server used by the master must be 127.0.0.1 (that is, itself) unless you're using another server for internal DNS. The only DNS server set on the clients should be the internal one, which they should get from DHCP if applicable.
3. Verify that the master's hostname matches its domain name by running the shell command
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4. Follow these instructions to rebuild the Kerberos configuration on the master.
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6. Unbind and then rebind the clients in the Users & Groups preference pane. Use the fully-qualified domain name of the master.
7. Reboot the master and the clients.
8. Don't log in to the server with a network user's account.
9. Export all OD users, delete them, turn off OD, turn it back on, and import. Ensure that the UID's are in the 1001+ range.
And got the following results:
Check.
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Resulted in the following console output: The names match. There is nothing to change.
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My trusted certificate was apparently not restored from the backup, as it was no longer listed. I switched to the self-signed one until a CSR can be made.
I'm not clear on what this actually means. There is no unbind or rebind functionality in the server app. Not to mention that my users or groups are no longer listed.
Nothing changed after rebooting the server.
Have always logged into server using the local server admin account.
Where is this done? I don't see any place to do this in the Server App.
At this point I'm suspecting that there are some serious Time Machine recovery bugs with server, as I have tried with multiple different restore points all ending in the exact same result.
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