Copy error -36 when copying from Time Machine disk to Mac

Since using OS X 10.6.(.6), I can't copy certain files from my Time Machine disk to the Mactintosh hard disk without getting a copy error -36. The error doesn't occur with all files: for example pdf files will copy without problems, but Filemaker Pro files and iCal files don't. May be it's important to mention that when I retrieve files from the Time Machine disk, I have to mount the "sparse bundle" with my user files first and then drag the files to the desktop or an other place. This is because I'm running File Vault. If I try to retrieve files that were backed up under OS X 10.5, I get no copying errors at all. So it looks as if Snow Leopard has something to do with it. Is there anybody who has seen this problem before and knows how to solve it?

Ok, I finally was able to complete the Disk Utility Repair, and it says everything is ok. Still the problem in restoring presists.
One thing I noticed is that most files that Time Machine restore chokes on have an added set of permissions added to the file or folder with the same user name as mine, and the permissions level says "Custom". Thus it has 2 sets of permissions defined with the same user name, one with Read/Write and another with the same name that says "Custom." Am I explaining this well? Maybe this is a clue?

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When migrating from time machine to a new hard drive, not all is transferd, only partial documents, applications , settings etc. How can I migrate the latest back-up with all the content.

sohs wrote:
When migrating from time machine to a new hard drive, not all is transferd, only partial documents, applications , settings etc. How can I migrate the latest back-up with all the content.
If you want to use Time Machine to recover the contents of one of its a backups to a new drive, follow the instructions in Mac OS X 10.6: Recovering your entire system. Note that you must select the "Restore System From Backup" option from the Utilities menu of the Installer disc to do this.
Also note that if you are transferring files to a hard drive to be used with a different computer, you should use Migration Assistant instead. This intentionally will not copy everything because some settings, applications, etc. are not compatible computer-to-computer. Migration Assistant will copy everything that is.

HT201250 When migrating from time machine to my new hard drive, it migrates the first back-up I made several years ago. How can I migrate the latest back-up ?

When migrating from time machine to my new hard drive, it migrates the first back-up I made several years ago. How can I migrate the latest back-up ? I need time machine to migrate the latest back-up. Should I delete the older back-ups ?

As noondaywitch says, it should use the latest backup.
Where are your backups (external HD, Time Capsule, etc.)?
It sounds like there are two separate sets, and you're not connected to the right set.

Is there any way to get back my data if I had not restored it from time machine before reinstalling Mac OS X on my comp from utility. PS - My OS version has downgraded from Mountain Lion to Mac OS X 10.75 . Pls. help

Is there any way to get back my data if I had not restored it from time machine before reinstalling Mac OS X on my comp from utility. PS - My OS version has downgraded from Mountain Lion to Mac OS X 10.75 . Pls. help

Look at the blue box on this link:
http://pondini.org/TM/19.html
Ciao.

How do I create a recovery partition when restoring from Time Machine?

I am planning to replace the HDD in my Macbook Pro with an SSD. I've used Time Machine to backup my HDD (running Mountain Lion) but am trying to find the best way to restore my Time Machine backup to the new SSD once installed.
Given that the new SSD will not have a bootable OS X Recovery partition, I have created a bootable OS X Recovery drive on a USB thumb drive using OS X Recovery Assistant.
In order to ensure that the new SSD has the OS X Recovery parition, should I:
(1) reinstall Mountain Lion on the SSD then recover my data from Time Machine; or
(2) can I simply use the Restore from Time Machine option in OS X Recovery to do it all at once.
I can't seem to work out whether option (2) will create the OS X Recovery partition on the new SSD or just recover the system partition.

Turns out the OS X Recovery partition is only created on a fresh install of OS X. Restoring via Time Machine will not do the trick.

No recovery mode available when recovered from Time Machine

My MBP has been really annoying ever since I bought it last year; every 1-2 months, HDD file structure is completely messed up which is beyond Disk Utility's recovery capability.
So I need to restore entire system from Time Machine after formatting the internal HDD, but every time I do, there is no way to reboot it to the recovery mode (command + R) and always end up with the Internet Recovery.
The only way to get the recovery mode available again is, so far, download the entire OS again and re-install it.
But it is quite time consuming and I would like to minimize the complete recovery time (total recovery time including recovering files from Time Machine and re-install Mountain Lion mounts to 10 hours or longer and I need to do it roughly every month...)
Does anyone have any good way to avoid the re-installation step?
Thank you.

If your system will not load the local Recovery HD partition then you will need to download and reinstall the OS again to get it working (and likely both partition and format the drive as well).
If you are simply trying to restore a Time Machine backup, then you can use the Internet Recovery to do so, by choosing the option from the OS X Tools interface and then choosing a backup instance on your TM drive to restore.

Cannot boot from time machine disk

I have a 2012 MacPro with 1 SSD and 3 Mechanical Disks installed. The disk in Bay 4 I use as a time machine disk, but upon booting the computer and holding down option I was only able to select my primary OSX Boot device ("Macintosh SSD") with no other bootable devices listed. If I have Time Machine on an external disk, I am able to select it as a boot device.
I just had a recent scare with a completely currupted disk that needed reformatting, so I'm checking everything I have to make sure it works as expected. Not being able to actually boot from the Time Machine disk to restore my computer if anything should go wrong with the Primary SSD and Hard Disk is quite worrysome.
How would I boot from an Internal Time Machine disk?
UPDATE:
I have found that I do not have internet recovery and I also do not have a Recovery HD.
I am downloading Mountain Lion from the App store again and will try and create some recovery media from that.
Message was edited by: Ginger-Ben

You should be using Carbon Copy Cloner to put a bootable copy of your SSD on another disk drive (it will offer to create ML Recovery volume also).
Cloning
Using Cloning as a Backup Strategy
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/7032/carbon-copy-cloner
You can have one drive that has clone of all the other drives in multiple partitions.
You could have more than one TimeMachine drive and a copy (cloned partition) of the system on each.
I do NOT understand why you can boot from TimeMachine on an external drive.
I have never even tried to boot from TimeMachine. You mean Recovery mode, not a standard system?
Mac Basics: Time Machine
Hold down the Option key at startup to boot into the startup manager. Select the Recovery system of the Time Machine backup to start from. Once started, you will have all of the functionality of Recovery.
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT1427
Mac OS X Recovery: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718
What I do and what I think you should include and add to your backup strategy:
An SSD *NEEDS* to have a disk image for restore if and as needed (and you need TRIM Enabler, and you need TE on your secondary drive.
You / we always have needed an "emergency / maintenance boot drive"
You can shrink and create 120GB partition on your backup drive but never have just one backup set or drive, "all your eggs in one basket" does not work forever.
Your OPTION boot should, if you installed ML or it came with it and you installed or cloned to the SSD, had one, or using "Command + R" on startup to boot from Recovery Mode. Trouble with that is if the drive needs to be formatted, and an SSD should be at times, you can only erase another partition, not the entire device.
Mac OS X & Mountain Lion Community
https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_os
https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_os/os_x_mountain_lion?view=discussio ns
Recovery Mode
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718
Cloning
Using Cloning as a Backup Strategy
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/7032/carbon-copy-cloner
http://www.bombich.com/software/updates/ccc-3.5.html
OS X Lion Install to Different Drive
How to create an OS X Lion installation disc MacFixIt
Migration Assistant Update for Mac OS X Snow Leopard
http://www.apple.com/support/lion/installrecovery/
Create an OS X Lion Install disc
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20080989-263/how-to-create-an-os-x-lion-ins tallation-disc
http://www.coolestguyplanettech.com/how-to-make-a-bootable-osx-10-8-mountain-lio n-disc-or-drive-from-the-downloaded-mountain-lion-app/
How to clone your system:
http://macperformanceguide.com/Mac-HowToClone-backup.html
http://macperformanceguide.com/Mac-HowToClone.html
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/7032/carbon-copy-cloner
http://www.macperformanceguide.com/blog/2012/20120711_2-MacPro-internal-clone-ba ckup.html
Before you clone, install TRIM Enabler!
And after you clone, run Disk Utility's REPAIR DISK on the SSD -- just to be on the safest side. http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/37852/trim-enabler
TimeMachine 101https://support.apple.com/kb/HT1427
How to relocate system and user data to another drive:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4337
http://chris.pirillo.com/how-to-move-the-home-folder-in-os-x-and-why/

Transferring from time machine onto my mac after its had a new hard drive installed.

I have a new hard drive in my iMac, using Mavericks 10.9.5.
I would like to restore from Time Machine, all my info.
The Apple video "Time Machine Basics" talks about "migrating to a new mac" and this is straightforward, but I already have logged into my new mac! I don't have the option to migrate.
How do I go back into Time Capsule for the first time?
If I just open Time Machine and start backing up my "empty new hard drive" onto the Time Capsule which contains the saved info from before, will I then be able to then just go back to the previous saved dates? Does that make sense?

Thank you, that makes sense, however, I've only just realised that I'm logged onto the new Hard Drive as "Test".
When I plugged it in, and turned it on, it just opened up like that, without me needing to log in as 'me' yet?
Is this ok, and the best option to do as you suggest?

How to import mailboxes from Time Machine to new Mac

I had Time Machine backing up our old G5. We got a Mac Pro back in November and I never was able to import the mail from the G5 to the Mac Pro so I left it alone and just kept using mail on the old G5. Well, the G5 took a dump last monday. I currently have the Time Machine backup for that computer connected to our Mac Pro (but not using it as backup yet). So, the mail from the G5 should be on the Time Machine backup right? If so, can I import it into Mail on the Mac Pro?
I also pulled one of the hard drives from the G5 and have it in the Mac Pro in the 2nd bay just to make sure that HD wasn't dead. It works fine and I tried importing the .mbox files from that drive but it appears that all the mail on that particular drive are from like 2006. So, again, I need to find out how to import mail from the Time Machine drive. Any thoughts?
10.7.4
Mail 5.2

Back up what data? Mail data? I don't have any yet. I haven't used Apple Mail on this Mac Pro yet.
Edit: Launching Mail and holding Option right afterwards does nothing. Holding down option and then launching Mail does nothing.
Oooooh.... launching time machine while holding down option......
Edit again.... I don't have a Time Machine menu because that disk is not currently set up as time machine for the Mac Pro yet. I don't want to use it as a backup for this computer yet. I just want to be able to pull some of the backed up contents from it until I'm set.

How do i selectively chose files from time machine to my mac which had to be wiped out by the genius (who I cant get to come to my house to help!)

HELP
How do I selectively select files and programs from TimeMachine to put back on my macbook pro?
it had to be wiped out by a genius who unfortunately will not come to my house to fix - no matter how much cash I offer

This page:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1427
this section:
• Restoring data from Time Machine backups - Restoring specific files of folders

Strange error trying to restore from time machine sparsebundle

I had my iMac hard drive go bad, so I replaced it, powered the unit back up and booted into the Snow Leopard install disk.
I got to the step where I'm trying to restore from my Time Machine .sparsebundle and I selected the date and time of the backup I wanted to restore. When I click Next to go the next screen (Select a Destination) the utility gets stuck "Searching for Disks," and below that a warning icon says
"This disk does not have enough space to restore your system."
This sounds scary, and as the Time Machine drive now has the sole copy of my data I'm reluctant to do anything to it.
Does anyone know what's going on?
Thanks in advance,
Dan.

Are you sure the new drive is formatted properly?
Check it via Disk Utility (you can get there from the same Utilities menu where you selected +Restore from backups).+
Select the top line of the drive (with size and make). Be sure the *Partition Map Scheme* at the bottom says +GUID Partition Table.+
Then select the next line, with the name you gave it, and be sure the Format shown towards the lower left is +Mac OS Extended (Journaled),+ unless you made it +Mac OS Extended (Case-Sensitive, journaled),+
Also see how much space it shows for Available to the right.

Grey Screen when restoring from Time Machine Backup

I was having some issues with my Macbook (circa 2008, aluminum) so I thought restoring from a Time Machine backup might solve the problem. The restore goes fine, always, but unfortunately, now whenever I start it up, it goes straight to the Gray Screen and goes no further. When checking the error logs, I see somewhere around 60% (I'm guessing, based on the time) the error:
bookmark failed to issue extension for item /com.apple.recovery.boot/BaseSystem.dmg
And a few other errors. Is there something I should be doing to fix this? Someone recommended reinstalling Lion, but as I have no wireless internet at home (only a plug-in USB 3G thing) it can't verify the installation.

Make a "Genius" appointment at an Apple Store.

Error message from Time Machine : "Disk Image ... is already used"

Time Machine was working well till today. I receive an error message saying that the disk image «Volumes/Time Capsule/ ... sparsebundle» is already used.

It just means Mountain Lion is so stupid it cannot remember its own name.. let alone the TC or when it last connected..
Reboot the network to give it a swift kick.. restart in correct order.. modem .. router/TC... clients.. 2min gap.
See C12
http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html

Don't see target disk when recovering from Time Machine

on my MacBook (vintage 2006?) I am now running 10.7.5
A few days ago it all of a sudden would not boot correctly. It goes through the start up screens and gets all the way to the screen where you can select a user (I have 4 users [family members] installed on this machine). You can select a user and enter a password and then the screen goes nearly white and then dumps you back to the user selection screen. If you put in the wrong password it errors as it should. If you ask for a password hint it operates as it should. It just won't log in ANY user.
I started it in the mode where you can run disk doctor and everything checks out as OK.
I run Time Machine so I thought "go get a 1 week old back-up, restore it and try that"
So I start up holdinging Control-R and I get to the screens that let you restore etc.
I find the drive, I find a back-up I want.
BUT
when it gets to the "Select a Destination" screen the only drive showing is the external drive I have attached which has the Time Machine back ups on it.
HELP!!!

wait - after sitting there for a long while on the 3 attempt all of a sudden the internal drive became visible.
I have selected it and am now restoring (which I will let run over night)
If this fixes it I will let everyone know.
IF it does not I will ask if anyone has a good idea as to how to fix this boo/log-in problem

Default admin user when restoring from time machine backup in setup assistant

Hello,
Apologies if this has already been answered elsewhere.
I will soon take delivery of a new iMac running Mac OS Mountain Lion, and I will want to restore my full Time Machine backup which was made on a MacBook Pro (which was my main machine, but is now faulty - it was running Snow Leopard).
On the MacBook Pro I had 2 user accounts. Mine which was the default admin account (named Ian Johnson), and my wife's which was a standard user account.
Now, I know that I should use SetUp Assistant to restore user accounts etc from the Time Machine backup, but I'm wondering whether during that process I will be asked to create another admin user account when I first run SetUp Assistant. Ideally I would like to end up with exactly the same user accounts as on my old MacBook Pro.
The reason I'm asking in advance is that I believe it's hard to "undo" whatever default admin user account you set up on first use of a new Mac, so want to be prepared.
Any help appreciated, thanks.
Ian

I'm wondering whether during that process I will be asked to create another admin user account when I first run SetUp Assistant.
You won't be, provided you go straight into Setup Assistant the first time you boot the new machine.

Copy error -36 when copying from Time Machine disk to Mac

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