Can I search Safari history in Time Machine
I was wanting to find a site I visited a couple months ago. Does Time Machine back that up? If so, how would I go about finding it? Where is the history saved - like a specific folder?
You cannot directly browse previous history versions, but you can restore a previous history then look at what Safari remembers (e.g. restore this history file for a month ago, then relaunch Safari and see what's in your menu. Rinse, repeat until you find the sites you're after
The history data is stored in ~/Library/Safari/History.plist so that's what you want to restore via Time Machine.
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How to recover safari history from time machine?
Hi guys,
I need your help ... I use time machine for the backup and I cancelled the history of Safari few days ago and now I need to recover it.
Where and how can I find it among the time machine files?
I have already read some suggestions in the web that told me to find it in the user/Library/Safari/History but I can't find any Safary folder in my Library :-(
Many thanks in advanceTriple-click the text on the line below to the clipboard, then copy it to the Clipboard (command-C):
~/Library/Safari/History.plist
Quit Safari. Disable Safari synchronization in iCloud, if applicable.
Select
Go ▹ Go to Folder
from the Finder menu bar. Paste into the text box that opens (command-V), then press return.
A folder window should open with a file named "History.plist" selected. Restore the file from a backup that predates the unwanted changes. If you disabled sync, re-enable it and test. -
I can't see any history in time machine
I have Time Machine backups for my MacBook on an external USB drive. When I connect the drive and turn on Time Machine by the control panel switch, it happily recognizes the backups and tells me when the first and most recent backups were performed. But when I enter the Time Machine, it shows no history for anything whatsoever -- the only window I can see is "now". When I click on any of the windows stacked behind "now", nothing happens. Also, there are no backups labeled on the timeline (right edge of the screen), just a bunch of tick- marks that I can't click on.
That is supposed to force all backups to mount, thus letting you go back in time.
Start with A4 in the 1st linked article.
Time Machine Troubleshooting
Time Machine Troubleshooting Problems -
Can I increase the capacity of Time Machine with an external hard drive connected to Time Capsule?
Can I increase the capacity of Time Machine with an external hard drive connected to Time Capsule via the USB port? My current Time Machine has a total capacity of 1TB. I'd like to double or triple its memory. I don't want to use the external hard drive in lieu of the Time Capsule hard drive. I'd like to use it in addition to. Just don't know if/how it's possible.
This is another one of those questions that I've searched the web for answers, and have gotten tricky answers back. So now I'm trying to introduce a clean slate to the mix.
Thank you for your time!Well, what you mentioning is possible. However, I don't know whether it's supported (as in, "easy to set up."). Time Machine officially supports backing up to a locally attached drive, to a machine running a Time Machine server (i.e. running OS X Server software), and to a Time Capsule. I don't know that it officially supports a drive attached to an AirPort or to a Time Capsule. Though I know some people have gotten it to work.
Best I can say is to try it. Plug the drive into the Time Capsule, ensure it's shared on the network, and then try and set it as a backup target from a machine in the Time Machine backup panel (you'll need to ensure it's mounted first). If it works, you're all set. -
Searching/Restoring Mail on Time Machine
Hello. I am considering a Time Capsule and Time Machine on top of my existing Crashplan subscription. I am particularly interested in a good backup plan for backing up Mac Mail and my iCloud account, since iCloud deletes e-mails put into trash after 30 days.
The question though is about searching my backups. If I use Time Machine to backup Mail on my Mac and want to restore a message, is there any way to *search* for the message in Time Machine?
Or would I have to start restoring the Mac Mail file day by day, around the time I received the e-mail, hoping to then find the message?
Thanks for any feedback!Recover items using Time Machine and Spotlight
If you use Time Machine to back up your Mac, you can use Time Machine with Spotlight to recover lost or deleted items.
Note: You can retrieve earlier versions of TextEdit documents from within TextEdit. For more information, see:
View and restore past versions of documents
Open a Finder window and type a search word or phrase in the search field in the upper-right corner.
Select a location to search in the location bar.
Refine the results by specifying search criteria.Narrow down Spotlight search results
Open the Time Machine menu in the menu bar, then choose Enter Time Machine.
Use the arrows and timeline to browse the Time Machine backups. Your search is performed in every window.
When you find the item you want to restore, select it, then click Restore.
The restored item is returned to its original location. For example, if the item was found in the Documents folder, it’s returned to the Documents folder.
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Can I use a mountain lion time machine back up on new mavericks macs?
My macbook retina was stolen at my school. I was wondering because I used time machine having mountain lion, does it affect anything when if i purchase a mavericks macbook pro? the just announced one. I have all my pictures (iphoto) in that last back up. Can i use a mountain lion time machine back up on new mavericks macs? My macbook retina was stolen on August 16? So I don't know if there was an update on my mac that might affect it in any way...
It's ok you can use your ML TM to transfer your account. iPhoto library and other things will be upgraded when you open the apps.
At the end of the Apple article it says:
Migrating a Time Machine backup to a new Mac
When you get a new Mac, you can transfer all of your applications, files, settings, and other information from a Time Machine backup you've already made. When you start up your new Mac for the first time, the Setup Assistant asks you if you would like to restore from backup. If you've already set up your new Mac, you can use theMigration Assistant (located in Applications/Utilities) to do the same thing.
After Migration Assistant completes the transfer and you select your existing Time Machine backup drive, you will be prompted with "Inherit Backup History". Once selected you will be able to continue to use your existing Time Machine backup on your new Mac. -
Safari stalls during Time Machine backups
Ever since I upgraded to the combination of OS X 10.6.8 and Safari 5.1 (my workflow is not yet Lion-ready), I've been seeing Safari stall while Time Machine is running its automatic backup. I get the spinner on trying to interact with any tab's content, and then Safari tells me web pages are unresponsive and must all be reloaded (which itself baffles me...why do *all* my 100+ tabs have to be reloaded in this case? Aren't they each an isolated thread now?). This continues throughout the backup. Once the backup is finished, I can tell Safari to reload a tab and everything's fine again.
Other apps will also sometimes become unresponsive during backups, but none as predictably as Safari. Some sites are more likely to start the stall cascade than others (Facebook is the worst culprit, though that may be due to my use of the Better Facebook extension). It's bad enough that I've tweaked the Time Machine settings to back up only every four hours instead of every hour, just so I can get a decent period of time between backups where I can work. (If I let it backup every hour, one backup is barely complete before the next one starts, leaving Time Machine essentially constantly backing up.)
(Based on what advice has come up when I've googled this question, I will point out that Time Machine itself is not freezing. The backups themselves are proceeding normally, though perhaps more slowly than I'd prefer. It's only other apps I'm trying to use while TIme Machine is performing a backup that are freezing.)
I've taken to watching CPU percentage during backups, through iStat Menus, and it never spikes at these times, so it doesn't seem that processor capacity is an issue. The only other thing that comes to mind as a possible cause is disk access speed—could my internal hard drive simply not be fast enough to keep up with both an active backup and the large number of tabs open in Safari at the same time? If so, is there a fix that doesn't involve replacing my internal hard drive?OK. Problem solved. Did a total clean install of Lion and stopped using Time Machine altogether. Using Memeo Life Agent backup app on both Macs and sending backups to a 1 ter network drive.
Found restoring via Time Machine to be unreliable. Also relized that with Lion and most other apps avilable for clean install via the net, I don't really need to backup my whole system as Time Machine provides.
Both Macs now run really well and no more problems.
Note: When using Memeo with a network dirve make sure to make that drive automatically mounted on startup. You can do this in System Preferences/Users/Login Items.
Done! -
How to recover deleted browser history using time machine on osx lion
I turned my time machine backup on. Deleted some of my browser history. And restored the entire App, Google chrome, hoping my history would reappear. However it didn't. Same with Safari.
What am I missing? Or rather, how to restore just the hisotry and not the rest of the application?I'm surprised because I just opened History.plist in TextWrangler and all the history listings are in there. There may be some interaction with other parts of what Safari saves during a session, and the only other approach that comes to mind is more serious surgery. The History.plist you found is contained in a folder called "Safari" along with a bunch of other stuff. At the risk of losing anything else you've done in Safari since then (e.g., new bookmarks), try restoring the entire Safari folder from Time Machine, being sure that the TM point you've selected is before the deletion. You might want to copy the current Safari folder to the Desktop first, just in case. And, again, Safari must not be running during the attempt.
There is also a Safari directory in /Users/username/Library/Caches/Metadata/Safari which has a history component in it but I'm not sure if you need that restored, too. -
Can Yosemite read a snow leopard Time Machine backup
Can Yosemite read a snow leopard Time Machine backup. Once I installed Lion over SL and it was a disaster since I could not get any docs or photos back, so had to put SL back on my old iMac.
Will 10.10 give the same problem or is there a way to migrate the old 10.6.8 data to 10.10?
ThanksYes, you can do that. The only limitation is that you can't encrypt the backup volume.
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Since I upgraded to OSX 10.7 I can not browse my photos in Time Machine
since I upgraded to OSX 10.7 I can not browse my photos in Time Machine.The instructions in Help do not help.
This option was removed in v9.1.5
IPhoto menu -> Provide iPhoto Feedback -
Can I move all data from time machine backup to another external drive & work from it?
Hi all, the harddrive on my macbook died (2nd time in a year) & I had a new one put in that's much smaller than the old one. Can I move everything from my time machine backup onto a seperate external drive and work directly from that on my laptop/imac? At the mo. I don't think time machine will recognise my computer as it's a new drive etc. Thanks Jenny.
What exactly do you want to do?
Is it that you wish to extract an older version of some documents to edit, but leave the original intact?
You can Restore an older version from TM and choose not to replace the current one.
Or, do you wish to install the OS on your new drive, and migrate all the information from the TM backup to the new isntallation?
EDIT: Ok, re-reading your question, I think macjack probably has the right idea.
However, see Pondini's Time Machine FAQ # 16 -
Can I restore photo files from Time Machine without the use of an external drive? While I was transferring photos back and forth from a thumb drive something went haywire and my IPhoto was wiped clean! When I click on Time Machine I see all the dated pages (without an external storage drive connected), go back to a date where all my photo files are there, click "restore", and I get the message: "The Finder can't complete the operation because some data in file cant be read or written (error code - 36)"
Thanks so much Terence. I tried some of the fixes from that page, but then discovered the suggestion to compress the Time Machine Back up of the original library and transfer it as a zip back to my computer as detailed here:
http://pondini.org/TM/E9.html
That worked like a charm. I really appreciate it. -
I have created a new partition on the Mac HD for Lion as I would like to dual boot. Do I need to install Snow Leopard on that partition before installing Lion? If so, can I use one of my Time Machine backups to do this?
zoominnana wrote:
Can I set up 2 different time capsule backups? one for the lion partition and one for the snow leopard partition?
No, you can't partition a Time Capsule's internal HD. Both partitions will back up to the same sparse bundle. keeping the backups for each partition separate.
Time Machine will not take the two OSX partitions as two different computers, but for best results, exclude the Snow Leopard drive from backups on the Lion partition, and exclude the Lion partition from backups on the Snow Leopard partition.
There may be some files on the Lion partition that Time Machine on Snow Leopard won't like, among other things. See #10 in Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions for details. -
I have just upgraded to Mavericks and have been using Time Machine on an external disk with Snow Leopard. Can I continue to backup with Time Machine on the same external disk or do I need a new disk since the operating system has changed?
Hi there,
I found that Time Machine in Mavericks will sort it all out for you. You shouldn't need to buy another backup drive, unless you have insufficient space left and can't afford to delete whats on there. It should just work fine. -
I want to transfer all my iPhoto, iTunes, contacts,documents, etc. files from my MacBook, which I am selling, to a MacBook Pro. What is the easiest and safest method of achieving this? Can the files backed up on Time Machine from the MacBook be transferred to the Pro in some way? I would like to capture the files as they appear on the MacBook, such as "Events" in iPhoto and the various song categories within iTunes without having to rename them all once saved on the Pro, which is the case with photos when I simply save them to thumb drive and import them to the Pro. Sny advice would be appreciated.
Best regards,
Rob.Michael,
Thanks for all your assistance. There is no need for apologies, Migration Assistant did indeed create a second account for the MacBook data. It has just taken me some time to figure out how to access it. I now have all the MB data in one account and the MBP files in another, which suits me fine. In fact, it is an advantage in my case as it keeps the private and business aspects separated.
I will however try the fatcatsoftware to transfer all the iPhoto files to my iMac, where I keep my main photo library. and it will be of help to keep the events, etc in the transfer. As far as iTunes is concerned, I have HomeSharing on all my computers and this has obviated the need to worry about playlists being transferred successfully. However, HomeSharing did not appear to share the iPhone/iPod apps that were stored on the MB and although these have now come across with the new MacBook account on the MBP, I was wondering whether my iPhone and iPod will be recognised by the MBP and sync with it? Will I need to have the MB account open to achieve this or will the MBP recognise and sync with the iPhone/iPod automatically irrespective of which account is open?
Thanks for the tip on deauthorising my iTunes account from the MB before sellng. This I will do and I believe the best way to remove all of my data from the hard drive is to reinstall the MacOSX operating system software. Is this the right approach to securely delete everything?
Thanks again for sharing your expertise and your guidance through this exercise.
Best regards,
Rob.
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