After a complete Time machine recovery....
I just finished using time machine to recover my iMac after putting in a new HD. Everything worked perfectly but now the contents of the time machine appear to be gone from before the install date. This is kind of concerning since one never knows whats missing until it's needed. Whats going on here?
The new HD is treated as different from the old one (even if you give it the same name). Depending on how you put your data back on it, the next backup may "associate" the new drive with the old backups, and only back up the changes. If it doesn't, it may have to delete a lot of old backups to make room for a new, full backup of the new drive.
If you've already run a backup, and don't see the old backups, try the procedure in #E3 of Time Machine - Troubleshooting.
Your signature says you're running Snow Leopard; if that's out of date, and you're running Lion, you may be able to force TM to "associate" the new drive with the old backups, per #B6 in the same article.
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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.
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I have replaced my old hard drive with a new SSD drive. Can I restore a complete Time Machine backup
I have replaced my old hard drive on a MacBook Pro midyear 2010 with a new SSD drive. I have a complete system backup of my old drive in an external hard drive using Time Machine.
Questions that I would like to get answered.
1) Can I connect my external hard drive to the macbook pro and use that to boot up my machine by pressing and holding down the Options key? Once booted up successfully, can I use Disk Utility to format the new SSD and then restore the complete time machine backup?
2) If that is not possible, can I use my old drive which I can connect using a USB adapter and use that to boot up by following the same strategy as listed in Step#1 above?
3) If neither options are possible, do I need to use a bootable USB drive for Mavericks OS X to boot up the machine,
I have Mavericks OS X ( 10.9.6) and I do not have a DVD of the OS.
Any help is appreciated.Let me first document the steps that did not work and then I will document the steps that worked.
1) Replaced the hard drive with SSD.
2) Connected the original hard drive using a USB adapter to the MacBook to make it behave like an external device.
3) Powered on the machine and on hearing the chime pressed Command-R to start in recovery mode.
4) Chose the Disk Utility option to erase and format the SSD. The format chosen was Mac OS Extended Journaled.
5) Once the formatting was done, then clicked on the "Restore" tab in Disk Utility
6) In the Source field, dragged my original hard drive from the left pane and placed it in the field
7) On the destination field, choose the new SSD drive. Clicked on "Restore". Gave me a warning, accepted the warning and the restore was under way.
8) I had 236 GB to restore so took 3.5 hours before it was done.
9) Disconnected the external hard drive ( my original internal HDD), shut down the machine and powered on again.
10) Heard the chime and after that it was a white screen with no Apple logo.
Was visibly upset and started thinking what my next move will be. Then tried these steps
1) Again powered off the machine.
2) Connected my internal HDD once more as an external drive
3) Powered on and on hearing the chime, pressed Command-R as before
4) Once the OS X utilities screen popped up, this time chose Install OS X
5) Erased the contents of SSD once more and reformatted it using Mac OS Extended Journaled.
6) Installed OS X by following the prompts.
7) Once the OS was installed, I was presented with an option on how to transfer data to this new Mac
8) Chose the option to move the data from my original HDD.
9) Took another 3 hours to move the data.
10) Removed the original HDD once the transfer was complete, powered down the machine and started it once more.
11) Booted successfully and all my content is now accessible on the new SSD.
Moral of the story - It is the spirit that counts. -
after installing lion, time machine does not always back up. The back up disk is occasionally not recognized. Help!
This is easy one.. for most.. just restart the TC.. ie pull out the power.. count to 10.. plug in the power.
If the simple doesn't work you can see more info here.
C12 http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html -
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.
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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,
-mikeHi 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.
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Time Machine Recovery (after data recovery)
Several months ago, Disk2 and Disk3 in my 2007 MacPro 1,1 (OSX 10.7.5) became unreadable by the computer. To make matters worse, the Time Machine external backup became equally as unreadable. All at the same time! Drive 1, with the operating system, seems to be unaffected. The two unreadable drives showed up as "media" in disk utility, but didn't show up in Disk Warrior or any other similar programs (partition repairing) using the "terminal." I sent the Time Machine drive (WD Mybook Essential 3Tb) to DataRecovery.com and they found no phyical issues with the drive. There was, however,"Data Corruption in the file tables and data area" (according to the evaluation report). This was corrected and the TM drive was supposedly completely recovered.
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After Time Machine Recovery Safari can access internet but Chrome not?!
a) Full System Recovery via Time Machine from a MBA Full Backup to a new MBPro
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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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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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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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Password issue after reinstalling OS X and time machine recovery
I recently installed a new SSD drive in my unibody macbook (6.1). Installing OS X leopard worked fine. Than recovered my time machine copy, (I was runnng OS X Mavericks). The recovery from time machine did not show any errors, so I assume it went well. When I rebooted my macbook, I saw my existing Macbook-useraccount and my computer asked for my user-account-password.
Problem: When I typed my user account password, it keeps returning with the "invalid password" message (I tried my Apple (iTunes) user ID password as well, but nothing seems to work.
Any suggestions how to solve this? Thanks!!If it's at 10.6.8, you can either redownload Mavericks in the App Store, or... sorry, I forgot what the other option might be!
Try re-installing the big 10.6.8 Combo...
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1399
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Password doesn't work after time machine recovery!
My hard drive failed. Got a new one installed. Re-installed Mac OSX 10.4 from my original disks. Then upgraded to Leopard with my upgrade disk. Used Migration Assistant to bring over my old files etc from Time Machine... When I used Migration Assistant it said something about usernames being the same or something so I just renamed it as per one of the options. Everything seemed fine until I shut down my computer, restarted it, and my password no longer works. What the ****?? When I attempt to reset the password using the OSX 10.4 disk it says that I cannot and that I do not have permission. When I try to boot from the Leopard upgrade disk I cannot do so, it just spits out the disk and boots from the HD and I'm back to square 1. Argh! Any suggestions??
BTW, correct password hint is there, just doesn't access computer.
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IMac password not working after time machine recovery
Just got a new hard drive - used Time Machine to reinstall the files - now my password does not work - suggestions?
Running latest iOS
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Time Machine recovery is missing last 6 months.
My SSD drive died and no data is recoverable from it. Fortunately I have had Time Machine running for years, so there should be an up-to-date backup. (It always is turned on. In fact I used it a few months ago to retrieve earlier versions of a fine, so I know it was working.)
However when I tried to use the disk recovery partition and recovery from Time Machine, it says the last complete backup was Jan 31. It recovers everything up to that date, but nothing for the past 6 months. I tried a system re-install followed by Migration Assistant from the Time Machine disk, but the same thing happens. Looking at the Time Machine file (using Show Package Contents) there are no files after Jan 31.
I am mystified as to how I might recover the missing files for the past 6 months and would appreciate any advice.Thanks Bob. I gave that a try but it cannot find any other backups.
I have not paid the $20 to ask AppleCare for advice yet, because I suspect they will just tell me that since the Time Machine files and bands last mod date was Jan 31 then nothing was backed up after that. -
Mail.app 4.1 does not work with 10.6.1 after restore from time machine
After I restored my complete system from time machine backup using the original snow leopard install disc. My Mail.app won't start up anymore. It shows me the message:
"You can't use this version of Mail with this version of Mac OS X"
"You have Mail version 4.1 (1076/1075.2). It can't be used Mac OS X Version 10.6.1 (Build 10B504). For more information, click the Help button"
I don't understand the error message as mail 4.1 was installed as part of Mac OS X 10.6.1?
Detailed event log:
2009-11-03 06:00 AM: Backup succeeded successfully via time machine on my time capsule
2009-11-03 11:00 AM: Original laptop was broken. (Screen didn't work anymore)
2009-11-03 03:00 PM: Got a temporary new Macbook Pro from my System Administrator.
2009-11-03 09:00 PM: Successfully restored complete system on new temporary macbook using time machine with data of my time capsule. Everything looked the same (login image, installed applications, etc...). But when I tried to start Mail.app it gave me the above message.
Can someone help me with this???
Kind Regards,
NielsI've seen two possible solutions to this:
1. Easier, but less likely to work - try to start mail from the Finder, rather than the Dock. If it works, replace the Dock Mail with the Finder one.
2. More probably the solution: download and reinstall the 10.6.1 combo update. I know you shouldn't need to after a TM restore but ...
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