Can you rename backed up files on time capsule?

Can you rename backed up file on time capsule?

You can rename the sparsebundle file that Time Machine has used for the backups of a Mac on a Time Capsule.....if that is what you are asking......just like you can rename any file on a Mac.

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  • Can't find backed-up files on Time Capsule

    I have a MacBook and, more recently, an iMac, both of which have been regularly backing up to a iTB Time Capsule. Then the hard drive on my MacBook, which contained all my iTunes and my photos, broke and had to be replaced. Now that I have my MacBook back with a new (but empty) hard drive, I want to restore all my old documents to it. But when I go into Time Capsule, "Documents" and "Music" are greyed out. All that I can recover are applications. Will someone please tell me that my old documents were in fact being backed up and that they can still be recovered?

    tom,
    Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
    The following may be helpful in migrating your data back to the new hard disk.
    *_Migrating User Data From One Mac to Another_*
    *Wirelessly or Directly Connected?* (For AirDisk Users)
    Bear in mind that for Time Machine to successfully migrate user data, the backup disk must be accessed in the same manner in which the backups were originally created. Otherwise, the backups may not be visible for migration.
    In other words, if backups were performed wirelessly to a hard disk attached to an Airport device, then the restoration will need to be performed wirelessly. On the other hand, if backups were performed with the hard disk attached directly to your Mac, then the restoration will need to be performed with the hard disk connected directly to your Mac You cannot perform backups via one means and be able to access them via another means.
    *Using Time Machine Before Initial Launch of New Mac*
    Before starting the new Mac for the first time, attach the hard disk that contains the Time Machine backups from the old Mac.
    Start the new Mac and begin the setup process. At some point it will ask you if you would like to Migrate/Import user data from another computer or a Time Machine backup disk. Follow the prompts and select the date of the backup you would like to restore your user data from. Once the migration is complete use Disk Utility to repair any permissions issues.
    *Using Time Machine After Initial Launch of New Mac*
    If you have already created a User Account on the new Mac using a DIFFERENT Username and Password from the old Mac, then do the following:
    Attach the hard disk containing the previous Macs' Time Machine backups to the new computer.
    Go to Applications --> Utilities --> and launch Migration Assistant.
    At the welcome dialogue click "Continue." You may be required to enter your Admin password.
    For Migration Method choose "From a Time Machine backup or other disk".
    Select the hard disk containing the previous Time Machine backups. (Give Migration Assistant some time as it scans the disk for eligible data to migrate.)
    Now select which User Accounts you would like to migrate over.
    However, if you have already created a User Account on the new Mac using the SAME Username and Password as the old Mac, then you will need to do this:
    Create a new User Admin Account on the new Mac with a completely unique name.
    Now, delete the first User Account you created on the new Mac - The one that is identical to the old Mac. (Of course, backup any important files that were created using the new User Account before deleting it.)
    Finally, use Migration Assistant as described above to move the old User Account data over from the Time Machine backups.
    *Full Backup After Restore*
    Bear in mind that in all cases Time Machine will perform a full backup after a full restore. This is normal. Time Machine will resume incremental backups after the full backup has completed. To view previous backups, Control-click or right-click the Time Machine icon in your Dock or Option-click the Time Machine menu extra and Choose "Browse Other Time Machine Disks," then select your previous backup volume. You will enter Time Machine and be able to browse your previous back ups and restore files. (http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1338)
    Let us know if this was helpful.
    Cheers!

  • How to improve the speed for backing up files to time capsule via in hose wifi?

    How to improve the speed for backing up files to time capsule via in hose wifi?

    via in hose wifi?
    Use a bigger hose??
    House??
    Need to spell this out a bit more..
    But speed via 2.4ghz to the TC is restricted by Apple to max 130mbps link speed.. much slower actual transfer.. latest TC and laptops can do 450mbps on 5ghz but you need to be up close.. so place the TC near the device using it.. and force 5ghz connection by using a different name for 5ghz network.

  • How can you restore your backup files from time machine?

    Hi how can you restore your backup files on your mac book pro from time machine? i lost all my pic and files on my phone and then restored it from the last back up which was when i lost all my files i dont know what i did? someone please help!
    Thank You
    Jon

    YOu might get more info if you post in the MAC forum.

  • Can i pull just one file off time capsule?

    I have successfully used my airport time capsule to transfer all information from my old Mac to my new Mac but somehow in the new iTunes update, I lost a video located in home movies. Is there a way to go into time capsule to retrieve only one file? Fortunately I had another external hard drive back up and was able to get this one, but wondering if I should keep using another external hard drive as a second back up.

    Files that are held in libraries cannot be recovered without recovering the whole library.. that is not the fault of Time Machine or the TC.. it is the way apple structure its files now.
    See the info from pondini on restoring files.
    Q15 here.
    http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html
    I think in our present state of affairs with TM becoming less than reliable.. I would encourage everyone to use a bootable clone.. eg Carbon Copy Cloner which will hold the files in the identical manner to your hard disk.. if a file is lost from your hard disk boot from the clone and you can then extract it from the library.. but it works differently and so changes will be made to the backup as they happen on the computer.. therefore it is important to also keep libraries in separate backups.

  • How to delete backed up files from Time Capsule in Lion.

    Since I upgraded to Lion I have been unable to delete old backed up items in Time Machine. I use Time Capsule and previously with Snow Leopard I could right click on a file and choose to delete all copies of the file. The option to do that is no longer available. Is there a setting I'm missing here? Thanks.

    You cannot delete items from Local backups (the white "tick marks").  See #30 in Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions.

  • View backed up files in Time Capsule

    how can I check that time capsule is actually backing up all my files
    How do i tag folders i want backed up in Time Capsule?

    mackerman wrote:
    how can I check that time capsule is actually backing up all my files
    See #15 in Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions.

  • I can' find my back-ups on my Time Capsule

    I  can't find my back files on my Time Capsule.  Where can I look that I haven't?

    Hi Aquatone
    To restore from a TM back, just follow the +"Recovering your entire system"+ article below:
    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/15638.html
    Dennis

  • How can you retrieve photo's from the time capsule(airport)

    Hi
    I recently had a problem with my mac and had to archive my stuff and put the operating system back on my computer.
    I 'lost' everything however I have been able to get some things back from the time capsule (airport) from previous backups. I can not find my photo's and they are the most important things I want back on my computer.
    Can anyone help? I have tried various things but still can't find them.
    thanks Lorraine

    If you did an Archive and Install, look for your "Previous System" folder and check for iPhoto in it.

  • Can you recover saved data on a Time Capsule that has died?

    I came home today to find that the green light to my Time Capsule was off.  Did all the usual fixers...and after going to the several posts on a DEAD TC...I guess I have latest one.  In addition to backing up my PC...I had a bunch of saved documents also.....can these be recovered or should I just can the TC?
    Thanks for any responses!

    With power supplies on ebay for $25 it is just as cheap and easy to unplug the power supply as it is to remove the hard disk and buy a cradle for it.
    Power supply. Replacement left sitting next to the old one right. The covers have been removed and replaced.. Just make sure you get the 34W supply for the 2TB drive. The early supply was 30W and could not handle it.
    Pull out the supply.. 3 plugs.. Mains in, Sata power and board.. and plug the new one in.
    Only because these are fairly plentiful and much cheaper now.. it might not even last long.. but at least to recover your data and erase and sell as a working unit that is fair enough.
    (not sure how long the post will last with pics of open TC??)

  • Time Machine does not see back-up file on Time Capsule

    I recently moved. I have a Time Capsule which is also my airport base station. I have about 7 months worth of back-ups on the drive for an iMac and a MacBook. The local cable company would only hook up the modem directly to my iMac and would not set up through the Time Capsule as it is not one of their routers. No problem. I did it once -- I could do it again. After discovering that it was not as simple as plugging the ethernet cable into the Time Capsule (after doing so, the Time Capsule recognized it had internet feed -- the iMac recognized the Time Capsule/Airport network -- but I could not get onto the net.) I discovered that I needed to do a hard reset. The instructions said the files would not be erased. They were not. I can still see the original back-ups for both computers in finder. But Time Machine does not recognize that either computer was ever backed up. There is no history and when I try a back-up it begins from scratch and creates a brand new back-up file.
    How do I get Time Machine to recognize the original back-up files? I tried "choosing disk" in Time Machine preferences but it only lets me choose the actual disk (the Time Capsule) and not an individual back-up file
    Thanks in advance to the collective brain trust.
    Robert

    I recently moved. I have a Time Capsule which is also my airport base station. I have about 7 months worth of back-ups on the drive for an iMac and a MacBook. The local cable company would only hook up the modem directly to my iMac and would not set up through the Time Capsule as it is not one of their routers. No problem. I did it once -- I could do it again. After discovering that it was not as simple as plugging the ethernet cable into the Time Capsule (after doing so, the Time Capsule recognized it had internet feed -- the iMac recognized the Time Capsule/Airport network -- but I could not get onto the net.) I discovered that I needed to do a hard reset. The instructions said the files would not be erased. They were not. I can still see the original back-ups for both computers in finder. But Time Machine does not recognize that either computer was ever backed up. There is no history and when I try a back-up it begins from scratch and creates a brand new back-up file.
    How do I get Time Machine to recognize the original back-up files? I tried "choosing disk" in Time Machine preferences but it only lets me choose the actual disk (the Time Capsule) and not an individual back-up file
    Thanks in advance to the collective brain trust.
    Robert

  • How can you extend the signal range of time capsule

    I have a time capsule in my office down stairs, and my apple tv upstairs, but the signal strength is very week (only one bar) so when I try to stream a movie is very slow. There is some thing I can do or buy to make the signal stronger??
    Thank you.

    You can add an AirPort Extreme to "extend a wireless network" to improve the wireless signal. Locate the AirPort Extreme approximately half way between the Time Capsule and the Apple TV.
    Setup instructions are here:
    Extended network

  • Can you remove Old Backup files from Time Machine sooner?

    So I'm aware that the default settings state that Time Machine will start to delete old backup files from your saved destination once that destination starts to approach full storage capacity. But what if you are not looking to fill up most of your storage capacity with Time Machine backups? Is there a way where you can cut the delete threshold in half and have Time Machine delete old backup files sooner rather than later?

    See Pondini's TM FAQs, for starters.

  • HT201250 How can you just back up photos. 2000 of them

    How can you just back up photos with Time Machine. 2000 of them

    peterz911 wrote:
    I am a photographer and trying to backup my photos. I would be using Seagate Backup Plus USB 3.0 , 1TB.
    I am very computer illeriate so please dumb it down so I understand.
    Hook up the Seagate drive (don't use their software) to the Mac and a TimeMachine window should appear, click yes and let it work for hours until completed. Hook up occassionally and it will backup your entire boot drive.
    If you need to format the drive, open Disk Utiltiy in your Applications > Utilities folder, click on your new drive on the left and Partition, 1, Option GUID and OS X Extended Journaled as the format and click apply.
    You should get another external drive, this will be your storage drive for a duplicate of all your photo's.
    Connect it to the Mac, format it the same way as above, then you need to drag and drop your photo's to it.
    If your photo's are in iPhoto, then inside your Pictures folder is a iPhoto Library, drag and drop it onto the icon of the external storage drive every time you want to make a backup.
    The first time you drag and drop, it will copy it.
    The next time you do it, it will ask if you want to replace the iPhoto Library with the new one.
    If your sure you want to do this, then say YES.
    If you want to make multiple dated backups of the iPhoto Library, double click on the external hard drive icon and it will open into a window.
    Use the Finder > New Folder and you can click on the name and change the type to date, then drag the more recent copy of iPhoto Library to that folder.
    This way you can have more than one copy of the iPhoto Library on the external storage drive at the same time as they are in folders. This way you can create a archive of dated photo's.
    Good Luck, and take a class or have someone teach you about basic OS X user interface.

  • Time machine working well but I can't find backed up files fast enough?

    Time machine working well but I can't find backed up files fast enough. When I look in Time machine backups I'm looking in a folder and I can't remember what it was, but I go back in time and the finder goes from 98 files to 100 files, how do I find which 2 files were the ones deleted? Going back and forth from past to present is a pain! I need to figure out which file it was faster? Have any ideas?
    With the new "Find" feature it actually highlights what you are looking for such as in Safari. Does Time Machine have a feature to highlight the files/folders that were deleted really from the present?

    It sounds like you aren't looking for any file in particular, but notice a change in number of files and would like to know what changed rather than knowing that a specific file is now missing.
    that's a good point, and it appears that TM is not setup to describe the changes over time. If I recall correctly, it has a plug-in ability, so maybe somebody will fill in that void.
    Sheldon

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