Can you recover files from Time Machine

It looks like my wife had a total disaster today. First, a couple of days ago her iMac stopped working. I have been trying to get it to reboot and have tried repairing the HD using disk utility, but the directory is corrupted. Tonight, I tried to use TechTool but it did not seem to repair the directory. I am assuming that the HD has failed and will have to completely rebuild.
To make matters worse, today the dog ate her Treo 680. So all her address book and calendar is destroyed on the phone.
I have both backed up on TM, but when I rebuild the iMac will TM recognize this or can I pull the files from TM from a newly rebuilt iMac?

I probably should have been clearer: I only backed up certain files, not the whole drive on TM. Thus, I am curious if I can recover say iCal, AddressBook, etc. since these data bases were backed up on both her phone and TM, and now that the phone is destroyed, I need to know how I can find these specific files on TM.
I looked into the TM drive last night and its not clear where they might be.

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    How do you delete file from time machine back up?

    This from Apple KB Article  If Time Machine is not in your Dock, you can enter Time Machine from the Menu Bar or System Preferences.
    Deleting data from a Time Machine backup
    To delete all backups of one or more items from a Time Machine backup, follow these steps:
    Click the Time Machine icon on your Dock to enter the Time Machine restore interface.
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    Control-click (or right click) the highlighted item(s) and select "Delete All Backups of..." from the contextual menu, or select "Delete all backups of..." from the Action Item menu.
    Authenticate with an administrator password when prompted.

  • Can't restore files from Time machine backup?

    I kinda successfully restored my files from Time Machine after a clean re-install of Snow Leopard (Time Machine thought they were new files, though, so backed up the 26 GB... waste of space), but now I'm trying to restore the files of the other user on the computer. In her pictures folder, I can't copy the iPhoto Library because I don't have permission to access it! The same problem occurred on my account too, but I was able to go to my Time Machine drive and manually change the permissions for the files I wanted, which doesn't work on her account.
    I have made a Youtube video of the error:
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    wrongusername wrote:
    But if I transfer everything with the Setup Assistant, won't I once again be experiencing the problems I had?
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    Probably not. Much more likely OSX was somehow damaged. And you got a whole new one.
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  • Please Help Me Is there any way of recovering files from time machine

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    Jawad
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    3.  Set-up iCloud and iCloud back-up
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  • How can i recover mail from time machine

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    Services ▹ Reveal
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    File ▹ Import Mailboxes...
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    Go ▹ Go to Folder...
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  • Can't recover iMac from Time Machine backup

    Hi there
    I need your help! My photos, music, videos, and other data is gone.. Especially the photos i would like to have back, they were stored in my Aperture library (about 13.000 pictures).
    For a few days ago my iMac (with Mountain Lion) wouldn't start, just showed the white screen with the 'thinking-circle' - no further… But I wasn't worried , because I had a Time Machine backup. So I restarted, holding down the option key. Then I chose to restore from the backup i had made. It started, but there wasn't going much time before it stopped, said there was an error with the backup.… When it started up again, tried again it said the same. So from there I couldn't boot the iMac, and i couldn't restore it with the Time Machine backup.
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    Time Machine Backup drive: WD external - 2 TB
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    Extra boot hdd (with the clean Mountain Lion install) : iomega 250 GB
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    Aperture file size: 163,29 GB
    My iTunes library was about 2.000 songs and 100 videos + app's + podcast… (haven't tried copying that yet, only the images because they are my main issue…)
    If you have read all this, thank you for that. Hope you see my frustration and hopefully have some ideas of what to do?.. Recover from the original hdd - recover backup hdd - or fix the files / copy them from the corrupted backup somehow? Please help...
    From Glenn :-)

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    That means that ideally you should use another bootable drive to download and run Data Rescue. Or booted from another Mac in firewire mode. Also, there is always the option of ordering or going to the store to  purchase the DVD. Then running from the optical drive.

  • Changed HD on Macbook Pro now can't recover backup from Time Machine

    Hi,
    My HD gave up the ghost after running very slowly for a while on my MacBook Pro 17" 2006 model using OSX Leopard.
    I bought a new MacBook Air running OSX Lion but did not recover from the Time Machine on Airport Extreme as a friend told me that files there could have been corrupted as well.
    Anyway, I replaced the HD on the old machine but again decided to do a clean instal in OSX Leopard. Using a caddy I selectively pulled in all my files and documents including my iPhoto Library. I set the TM on this new HD which did not use the old sparsebundle. So this is now a complete new backup.
    However, I need to recover a few old photos which somehow disappeared from the new iPhoto library. I am sure that these are still on the old TM back up file. But I cannot get to it through the TM application.
    Is there anyway I can get access to previous backups using either Leopard or Lion?
    I have consulted Pandini (I think that is what it is called) but they do not seem to have an answer to my specific problem.
    Many thanks
    Tariq

    you want a different forum though anyone here can likely walk through this.
    MacBook Pro
    https://discussions.apple.com/community/notebooks/macbook_pro 
    https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_os?view=discussions
    http://www.apple.com/support/macbookpro
    And as for backups, one backup set and one method are not enough and when you use the same drive that was used for an older OS that changes the set.
    You show 10.7.4 so 10.7.5 now? there was a supplemental update 1.0 to deal with bug in TimeMachine also.
    There is forum area for TimeMachine in OS X community.
    I like "Back in Time" from same people that have TriBackup ($60) and recommend using Carbon Copy Cloner (now $39). 
    Pandini is drive enclosure?

  • How do I recover files from time machine backup?

    I need to recover my entire system from my time machine backup.
    I'm following the help center instructions.
    The last step is step 6.
    It says, "Select the date and time of the backup you want to restore, and then follow the onscreen instructions."
    Problem is, no onscreen instructions appear.
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    While in Time Machine, press the key combination shift-command-C. The front window will show all mounted volumes. All snapshots should now be accessible. Select the one you want and navigate to the files you want to restore.

  • How to recover file from Time Machine ".purgeable" backup

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    Regards,
    Mateo

    Enter Time Machine from Finder. To see all mounted volumes shift - command - c.    Information learned from Linc Davis.

  • Can you transfer files using Time Machine back-up to a new computer?

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  • Need advice (help!) Can I get files from Time Machine to a PC

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  • Can you stream movies from time machine to apple tv

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    Philip Craig wrote:
    Can you stream purchased movies from Apple Time Machine to Apple TV?
    No.
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    So, what I was wondering, is it possible to stream from Apple Time Machine to Apple TV, i.e. use Time Machine to store your movies for Apple TV?
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