Copying Saved Data/Folders to a Fresh Install of Tiger

Hi Gang
My thanx to Kappy and Macjack for providing the file paths and information below.
I'm doing a fresh install in a new HD. Have done this many times. Just making sure about a few things. I'm interested in the following Data/Folders which I will copy from the old drive before I remove it;
/Home/Library/Application Support/AddressBook (copying the whole folder)
/Home /Library/Safari (copying the whole folder)
/Home/Library/Mail (copying the whole folder)
/Home/Library/Cookies/Cookies.plist
/Home/Library/Application Support/WebFoundation/HTTPCookies.plist
Just wanna make sure; Do I have remove/delete the original folders, then paste these in? Do I paste over the old folders?
Thanx
Mike

Hey BD How are you?
Ok well it's getting a wee bit confusing now;
"but if you have anything in your present mail folder, move that folder to the desktop first" Don't know what you mean here, but I'm pretty sure I had handle on this.
Any SAVED folders; Mail, Safari etc., (when put back in the right place), will automatically replace those folders. I understand this. I'll save the folders I mentioned above, before I remove the old drive. Then put them back where they belong in the new formatted drive, (a replacement drive). I'm the same original owner of both drives.
I was also asking about old 'In' Mail, and 'Sent' Mail. Will all this data be returned/saved with the /Home/Library/Mail folder?
"Did you save the Mail.plist from the other one?"
Yes, and others too.
"Did you setup the account on this one yet with the same info?"
No, but I was going to.
Thanx
Mike

Similar Messages

Problem with importing saved .json backup file in fresh installed firefox 3.6.8? Message "unable to process the backup file", when i choosed option "Restore" from menu "organize your bookmarks" !?

Hello,
my problem is with importing saved .json backup file in fresh installed firefox 3.6.8? Message "unable to process the backup file", when i choosed option "Restore" from menu "organize your bookmarks" !?
Normally that i followed all instructions from your support site, and that i tried many things, but nothing helped :( !?
my .json file isn't corrupted cause it was saved on another partition before formatting my OS.
Please don't tell me that my bookmarks are lost :( cause i had many important things in that bookmarks, on 100.s pages :( ....
Thanks in advance!
Sincerely,
hoho33

"
Can you restore that JSON backup in a new profile?
Did you make sure that it is really a JSON backup and that there is no missing or hidden other file extension?
A JSON backup starts with: {"title":"","id":1,"dateAdded"
A HTML backup starts with: <!DOCTYPE NETSCAPE-Bookmark-file-1>
You can try if you can restore that JSON backup in a new profile.
Create a new profile as a test to check if your current profile is causing the problems
See Basic Troubleshooting: Make a new profile
If that new profile works then you can transfer some files from the old profile to that new profile (be careful not to copy corrupted files)
See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_data_to_a_new_profile_-_Firefox
Please for administration of this support site, make possibility to quote someone's answer, on this way is dificult to answer somebody who wrote some suggestion!
No, i can't restore JSON backup in new profile, even on fresh installed OS XP SP3, with fresh installation of latest version of firefox!
MAN I TOLD YOU 10X IT'S 200 % JSON BACKUP FILE!!! I'M NOT IN IT FROM YESTERDAY, I WORK IN IT 12 YEARS!!!
I tried restoring json backup in new profile, but nothing, i couldn't restore, cause that stupid error from screen shot which i posted again appears !
Man i'm not totally noob i repeat 2nd time here, and normally that i know to create new profile, and that i tried that, but that didn't help!
I can't believe that FIREFOX has not good support team, and doesn't care for yours users, this will not give me more reason to use in future firefox
like borwser, if i don't have good support, and when i have problem like this, to loose all my very important bookmarks and passwords on them, and
firefox support won't to help me to solve my problem!
If somebody from firefox support team read this, i can give you Remote desktop access to my computer to try solve this problem, like other serious company
like HP, Dell , etc. give remote desktop support to their users!
Corel are you from firefox support team? Please don't write same suggestions, cause i know to read, and i understand well if you write once some suggestion!
Greetzz

Fresh Install of Tiger and System Check?

What is it that people are talking about when they say they receive their mac and then do a fresh install of tiger? Can somebody give me the how's and why's for doing this?
Also, being new to mac, I'm not sure how to check my mac to ensure everything is running smoothly. What are the system checks that one can do through tiger to ensure you didn't receive a dud.
Thanks

All Macs are shipped with a preinstallation of mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger). The fresh install is useful for two reasons…
1) It allows you to erase the drive and zero the drive. This gives the software an opportunity to map out bad blocks on your drive, if any, what can cause issue later on. This is more for the slightly paranoid, like myself.
2) It enables an opportunity to do a custom installation which might be desired for reason like space savings etc.
The way to do is rather simple, insert your installation DVD and restart holding down the c key. It will then boot off the DVD and start off the installation process. One trick though is that when you are asked which hard disk to there is an option button at the bottom of the screen which allows you to erase the drive before the installation. You select thing if you want to do a completely new installation.
By the eay, to zero out the drive you need to launch Disk Utility and do it there. You can select it from the menus. You should do this as soon as you can BEFORE you select which disk to do the installtion on.

I have copy of data files! How to install and add these files to database!

Dear All,
I am using Oracle 11gR1 and Linux is the operating system.
I have OS level copy of my data files. This also includes the system and user tablespace data files.
Here is the list of datafiles:
*/DB/app/oracle/oradata/bssglb/system01.dbf*
*/DB/app/oracle/oradata/bssglb/sysaux01.dbf*
*/iscsi/oracle/db/undotbs05.dbf*
*/DB/app/oracle/oradata/bssglb/users01.dbf*
*/DB/app/oracle/oradata/bssglb/bss01.dbf*
*/var/oracle/oradata/bssglb/bss02*
*/var/oracle/oradata/bssglb/system02.dbf*
*/iscsi/oracle/db/bss03.dbf*
*/iscsi/oracle/db/bssdevp01.dbf*
I need to copy these files to a fresh install oracle database, kindly let me know the steps or any helpful document.
Thank you, Imran

I created control files with command:
CREATE CONTROLFILE REUSE DATABASE "BSSGLB" NORESETLOGS NOARCHIVELOG
    MAXLOGFILES 32
    MAXLOGMEMBERS 5
    MAXDATAFILES 600
    MAXINSTANCES 10
    MAXLOGHISTORY 1168
LOGFILE
GROUP 1 '/DB/app/oracle/oradata/bssglb/redo01.log' SIZE 500M,
GROUP 2 '/DB/app/oracle/oradata/bssglb/redo02.log' SIZE 500M,
GROUP 3 '/DB/app/oracle/oradata/bssglb/redo03.log' SIZE 500M
-- STANDBY LOGFILE
DATAFILE
'/DB/app/oracle/oradata/bssglb/system01.dbf',
'/DB/app/oracle/oradata/bssglb/sysaux01.dbf',
'/DB/app/oracle/oradata/bssglb/users01.dbf',
'/DB/app/oracle/oradata/bssglb/bss01.dbf',
'/var/oracle/oradata/bssglb/bss02',
'/var/oracle/oradata/bssglb/system02.dbf'
CHARACTER SET US7ASCII
;I have all the files mentioned in the datafile section of the above command.
But somehow when i try to open the DB, first it asks for the media recover. When i recover database then it disconnects database saying:
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01092: ORACLE instance terminated. Disconnection forced
Process ID: 4768
Session ID: 170 Serial number: 5Contents of the alert log file are:
Beginning crash recovery of 1 threads
parallel recovery started with 3 processes
Started redo scan
Completed redo scan
1 redo blocks read, 0 data blocks need recovery
Started redo application at
Thread 1: logseq 7, block 2, scn 20356182450
Recovery of Online Redo Log: Thread 1 Group 1 Seq 7 Reading mem 0
Mem# 0: /DB/app/oracle/oradata/bssglb/redo01.log
Completed redo application
Completed crash recovery at
Thread 1: logseq 7, block 3, scn 20356202453
0 data blocks read, 0 data blocks written, 1 redo blocks read
Sun Feb 20 08:16:23 2011
Thread 1 advanced to log sequence 8
Thread 1 opened at log sequence 8
Current log# 2 seq# 8 mem# 0: /DB/app/oracle/oradata/bssglb/redo02.log
Successful open of redo thread 1
MTTR advisory is disabled because FAST_START_MTTR_TARGET is not set
Sun Feb 20 08:16:23 2011
SMON: enabling cache recovery
Errors in file /Oracle/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/bssglb/bssglb/trace/bssglb_ora_4550.trc:
ORA-01173: data dictionary indicates missing data file from system tablespace
Error 1173 happened during db open, shutting down database
USER (ospid: 4550): terminating the instance due to error 1173
Sun Feb 20 08:16:25 2011
Instance terminated by USER, pid = 4550
ORA-1092 signalled during: alter database open...
ORA-1092 : opiodr aborting process unknown ospid (4550_182910338848)
Sun Feb 20 08:16:26 2011
ORA-1092 : opitsk aborting processPlease help

Copy Files to new iMac and fresh install of Apps?

I am upgrading to a new 27" iMac from a Mid (2007) 24" Core 2 Duo
My understanding is that setup assistant or migration assistant, will copy over my user data, applications, etc.... My issue is, I don't want a lot of that copied over to the new machine. For instance, If I understand correctly, if I copy the Apps, it is an all or nothing scenario, correct?
Would I be better off just setting up the new iMac "as-is" out of the box, and just reinstall the apps that I want?
Also, for my user directory, couldn't I just copy those files off to an external hard drive from the old machine, and copy them back into the new one?

With a new Mac running Mountain Lion, I would install the latest (newest) versions of all apps from scratch. I would not migrate apps from an older system. You said your existing Mac is a 2007 iMac - what version of OS X are you using?
You can easily transfer all your data files (things that are in your old user folder and elsewhere on your old Mac by starting it in Target Disk Mode and connecting it via FW to your new Mac. Then just user the FInder to copy whatever files/folders you want to transfer to your new iMac. There is no need to do a "double copy" by copying them to an external drive first, and then copying them a second time from the external drive to your new iMac.
Note: you will probably need the Apple Thunderbolt-Firewire Adapter to do this.

Copying/saving email folders in Outlook Express to somewhere else

When I upgraded my G4 from Classic to OS X, I couldn't figure out how to move the email I'd saved in folders in Outlook Express. Besides several years of emails from my kids, there are other folders I'd like to keep. I'm now giving the computer to a friend and want to have those folders of email. How do I do that? I am keeping a powerbook that still has Classic on it. I have a new Intel iMac. Or ideally I could burn them to a CD. I can't figure out how to get them out of Outlook Express to move them anywhere at this point.
Thanks!
G4 Mac OS 9.2.x

Jane, hello.
I think you can simply drag and drop them out to a folder you have made (or allocated) on your desktop.
ie. In Outlook Express, select one email (it can be any email) as it is listed in your Inbox, then go to the menu bar and choose Edit > Select All (command key + A) ... the files will become highlighted (blue on mine) ... then drag the files out to the empty folder you made on your desktop. The folder will highlight (darken) when it is ready to accept the files. Of course, the same process will work for your Outbox, or Drafts etc.
This website seems to focus on the functionality of Outlook Express, maybe there is some useful advice here:
http://www.macoptions.com/oe/newuser2.htm
You can compact the database and what not, but I would do all that when you have saved your files to your desktop.
Hey, I am not as computer savvy as some of the other members –maybe someone will have a better idea– but what I outlined is what works for me.

How to do a fresh install of tiger on g4 ibook

Hi everyone,
I am wondering how I can do a fresh install of mac os tiger on my ibook with the cds that came with it. I am selling it and want to make it like its getting turned on for the first time and the person has to register and all that good stuff.
Thanks.

So pretty much all I need to do is just insert the cds and follow the directions?
If you are referring to reinstalling, the answer is yes.
Should i zero my startup disk also or should zeroing the harddrive be enough?
The iBook's current startup disk IS the hard drive. When you boot from the install disc (CD/DVD) you will zero the hard drive in the iBook.

Motion 1.0.1 won't open from fresh install on Tiger.

error log
===== Friday, March 3, 2006 10:42:44 AM US/Eastern =====
dyld: Library not loaded: /Library/Frameworks/PluginManager.framework/Versions/A/PluginManager
Referenced from: /Applications/Motion.app/Contents/MacOS/Motion
Reason: image not found
Mar 3 10:42:48 Video crashdump[288]: Motion crashed
Mar 3 10:42:48 Video crashdump[288]: crash report written to: /Users/Admin/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Motion.crash.log
*********Motion.crash.log*******
Host Name: Video
Date/Time: 2006-03-03 10:42:48.394 -0500
OS Version: 10.4.5 (Build 8H14)
Report Version: 4
Command: Motion
Path: /Applications/Motion.app/Contents/MacOS/Motion
Parent: WindowServer [63]
Version: 1.0.1 (1.0.1)
PID: 287
Thread: Unknown
Link (dyld) error:
Library not loaded: /Library/Frameworks/PluginManager.framework/Versions/A/PluginManager
Referenced from: /Applications/Motion.app/Contents/MacOS/Motion
Reason: image not found
Also may be ineresting to note that motion installed as and "upgrade" even though there was no previous install. Install disk is 1.0 which I upgraded to 1.0.1 through software update.
System was wiped clean and tiger installed fresh. then installed Final Cut Express 2.0.3 succesfully. and also installed Office 2004. Everything else is stock Tiger -upgraded to 10.4.5
Tried removing all files i could find related to motion and reinstalled numerous times. I am stuck....
IMac G5 1.8
512MB RAM
GeForce FX 5200

UPDATE
found that the folder in the error log called "A" was actually named "B" on the system. changed name of folder to "A" and got farther in launching, app intro window appeared, and then program quickly crashed again.....
Host Name: Video
Date/Time: 2006-03-03 13:10:20.351 -0500
OS Version: 10.4.5 (Build 8H14)
Report Version: 4
Command: Motion
Path: /Applications/Motion.app/Contents/MacOS/Motion
Parent: WindowServer [63]
Version: 1.0.1 (1.0.1)
Build Version: 2
Project Name: MolokiniApp
Source Version: 1120000
PID: 335
Thread: 0
Exception: EXCBADACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERNPROTECTIONFAILURE (0x0002) at 0x00000020
Thread 0 Crashed:
0 libobjc.A.dylib 0x909bf118 objc_msgSend + 24
1 Ozone 0x0109350c OZApplication::ScanPlugins(PCString*) + 620
2 Ozone 0x01028160 OZApplication::initialize(PCString*) + 41984
3 com.apple.motion 0x0000d3e8 0x1000 + 50152
4 com.apple.motion 0x0000cf38 0x1000 + 48952
5 dyld 0x8fe01048 dyldstart + 60
Thread 0 crashed with PPC Thread State 64:
srr0: 0x00000000909bf118 srr1: 0x100000000200f030 vrsave: 0x0000000000000000
cr: 0x44000224 xer: 0x0000000000000000 lr: 0x000000000109350c ctr: 0x00000000909bf100
r0: 0x000000000109350c r1: 0x00000000bffffa10 r2: 0x0000000000000000 r3: 0x00000000a09ba88c
r4: 0x00000000909cf02c r5: 0x00000000a28e6e44 r6: 0xffffffffffffffff r7: 0x00000000018632ac
r8: 0x00000000018632ac r9: 0x000000000181b560 r10: 0x00000000909bd648 r11: 0x000000006f62f02c
r12: 0x0000000000000000 r13: 0x0000000000000000 r14: 0x0000000000000000 r15: 0x0000000000000000
r16: 0x00000000456811d8 r17: 0x000000000180dd68 r18: 0x00000000bb00000a r19: 0x000000000180eac0
r20: 0x000000006186b5e4 r21: 0x000000000041e620 r22: 0x000000000185d54c r23: 0x000000000185d550
r24: 0x00000000004551a0 r25: 0x00000000018632ac r26: 0x000000000185d548 r27: 0x000000000185d240
r28: 0x00000000018132ac r29: 0x000000000181b560 r30: 0x000000000045a2b0 r31: 0x00000000010932ac

17" C2D 2 gHz iMac w/fresh install of Tiger won't boot to desktop; takes me through setup, then instead of normal boot, it re-enters setup. (I don't have install disks)

Hi, I just bought an iMac from E-Bay, a pre-aluminum, 17" C2D 2.0 gHz machine. The seller told me that he wiped the hard drive and installed Tiger, with a borrowed disk, so I don't have install disks.
I booted up the computer and it took me through the initial setup process. Everything seemed slow, it took a couple of minutes to get to the setup intro screen. After going through setup, it looked like it was going to go for a normal boot, but it re-entered setup. I went through the process 3 times, and it wouldn't let me choose the same user name twice, so it seems to have created 3 user accounts. But I can't get it to boot to a normal Finder desktop. Safe mode is no-go. I reset the pram, no change. I plan on trying to boot using Linux Mint on an external USB, to see if the hardware is functioning.
Any suggestions or insights
Thanks!

You're not getting many hits here, try reposting at the Tiger site:
https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_os/mac_os_x_v10.4_tiger

Migration of all setup from ebs 12.1.3 to fresh installed ebs 12.1.3

Hi everyone,
EBS 12.1.3 was installed 1year ago on Linux rhel 5. and after 1year with lots of customization and setups.
EBS showing lots of issues ,and requirement is to install fresh EBS 12.1.3 and move all previous EBS data & setup to the freshly installed.
As it seems EBS 12.1.3 was not installed properly which led to so many issues.my questions is.
1)is this possible to install fresh EBS 12.1.3 and then move previous data & setup to this one.
is this recommendable?
if yes? how? Kindly give me a detail guidance
2)how to do a health checkup of currently installed EBS 12.1.3.
I mean if I can show them their is nothing wrong with installation. Then we need to think over other solutions.

what kinda of issues ? are they functional setup issue ? or customization issue?
if yes why would you move those setup when you already have issues on that...
Yes you can migrate
For the application tier migration please see:
Application Tier Platform Migration with Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 (Doc ID 438086.1)
R11i / R12: Oracle E-Business Suite Upgrades and Platform Migration (https://support.oracle.com/rs?type=doc&id=1377213.1%29Doc ID 1377213.1)
For setup
https://blogs.oracle.com/stevenChan/entry/ten_ways_of_using_isetup_to_st
For the database tier migration please see:
Export/import process for 12.0 or 12.1 using 11gR1 or 11gR2 (Doc ID 741818.1)
Using Transportable Tablespaces for EBS Release 12.0 or 12.1 Using Database 11gR2 (Doc ID 1311487.1)
TO cross check installtion
How to locate the log files and troubleshoot Rapid Install for Release 12.0.x and 12.1.x (Doc ID 452120.1)
ApPsMaStI
sharing is Caring

Fresh OS X Tiger install won't go past the "Select a Country" screen

I did a fresh install of Tiger on a G4 Cube which previously had 10.2. The first attempt failed, so did the 2nd and 3rd after which the computer was stuck on the gray Apple start-up screen. So, I restarted, went into open firmware (Cmd-Opt-O-F) and ejected the disk. Cleaned the disk throughly, reinserted, and rebooted from the install disc (C key).
This time the installation went well. At the end it asked to Restart, which I did. It took a long time to boot, stayed on the blue screen for a while, went through the intro animation and to the Welcome screen where it asks to select a country.
On this screen, when I select United States and click Continue, it waits a few seconds, goes to a blue screen then replays the Intro animation and comes back to the Welcome screen. It keeps repeating this loop and I can't get past it.
Any idea what's going on and how to fix it?

I checked the console and here's what the system log had:
Oct 30 14:38:57 Cube kernel[0]: disk0s10: I/O error.
Oct 30 14:38:59 Cube crashdump[211]: crashdump crashed
Oct 30 14:39:01 Cube crashdump[211]: crash report written to: /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/crashdump.crash.log
Oct 30 14:39:17 Cube kernel[0]: disk0s10: I/O error.
Oct 30 14:48:14 Cube kernel[0]: disk0s10: I/O error.
Oct 30 14:48:32 Cube kernel[0]: disk0s10: I/O error.
Oct 30 14:48:34 Cube crashdump[254]: Safari crashed
Oct 30 14:48:35 Cube crashdump[254]: crash report written to: /Users/raj/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Safari.crash.log
Oct 30 14:49:23 Cube kernel[0]: AirPort: New Group Key, Idx 1
Oct 30 14:50:54 Cube kernel[0]: disk0s10: I/O error.
Oct 30 14:50:55 Cube crashdump[259]: YouView crashed
Oct 30 14:50:56 Cube crashdump[259]: crash report written to: /Users/raj/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/YouView.crash.log
Oct 30 14:52:06 Cube kernel[0]: disk0s10: I/O error.
Oct 30 14:59:43 Cube crashdump[268]: Software Update crashed
Oct 30 14:59:49 Cube crashdump[268]: crash report written to: /Users/raj/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Software Update.crash.log
Does this give any clues? I am able to launch apps such as Textedit, iCal, iTunes, Calculator, Disk Utilities etc. But it crashes when launching Safari, Software Update and some Installers like OnyX.

Clean install of Tiger on new HD. Clone? or what....

is the best thing to do. I have just bought a spiffing new Hitachi 7200 HD for my PB and am torn between creating a clone using Drive Genius and copying it back or should I just copy my Home folder to the clean instalation of Tiger. Of course I would need to reinstall all my progs.
If some can point me in the right direction I would be gratefull.
I have also bought a HD enclosure USB 2 for the old 5400 original drive.

I hope you are aware that you cannot boot the computer with a USB drive. If you planned to clone to the USB drive, then boot from it, you will not be able to do so. USB drives cannot boot OS X. You will need a Firewire drive instead. Best swap that USB case for a Firewire case.
If I were you I would clone your existing system to an external Firewire drive. I would then boot from the Firewire drive and upgrade to Tiger. If all works well and you have no problems arise, then you can decide whether to install Tiger cleanly on the internal hard drive or to clone back from the external drive.
If you choose the above then before creating the initial clone you must do the following:
Boot from your OS X Installer. Be sure to use the installer for the version of OS X you have installed. After the installer loads select Disk Utility from the Installer menu (or Utilities menu if using Tiger.) After DU loads select your OS X volume from the list on the left, click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer. Now shutdown the computer for a couple of minutes and then restart normally.
If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior (3.0.3 for Tiger) and/or TechTool Pro (4.0.6 for Tiger) to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.
Do not clone unless your hard drive is verified as OK.
Next prep the new external hard drive as follows:
1. Open Disk Utility in the Utilities folder of your Applications folder.
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Set the number of partitions from the dropdown menu (use 1 partition unless you wish to make more.) Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled, if supported.) Click on the Partition button and wait until the volume(s) mount on the Desktop.
4. Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
5. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled, if supported.) Click on the Options button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
6. Click on the Erase button. The format process will take 30 minutes to an hour or more depending upon the drive size.
Last, perform the clone using Disk Utility:
1. Open Disk Utility from the Utilities folder unless it's already open.
2. Select the startup volume from the left side list.
3. Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
4. Drag the startup volume to the Source entry field.
5. Select the backup volume from the leftside list and drag it to the Destination entry field.
6. Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
Test the clone by opening Startup Disk and setting the external drive as the startup disk. Click on Restart.

Shifting data from Old R/3 server to Freshly installed server

Hi All
I have freshly installed 4.6 C server on Windows 2000 and database is Oracle.
Now i want to shift the data from existing 4.6C server to this new server.
Is there any other procedure rather than backup/restore bec we are not going for the tape backup .
I am copying the datafiles manually.
Is there any other procedure for that.
Thanks
Sapna

Yes - you can copy the files manually.
check the homegeneous system copy guides at
http://service.sap.com/systemcopy
for the procedure.
Markus

How can i gain access to my data on a Time Capsule after a fresh install of Mavericks? I can't access any backups through Time Machine... They appear purple/transparent, and I can't even select them to view their contents. PLEASE HELP!!!

So, I've got several thousand photos, and a decent amount of videos of my daughter, along with a lot of stuff for work stored on my Time Capsule, and now I can't access any of it. I did a fresh install of Mavericks on my MacBook Pro last week sometime, and haven't been able to figure out how to get my files back. Please Help!!! My daughter is 2 and a half, and every picture/video I have of her is locked on this thing. I was planning on making some photo/video projects fo my wife for Christmas, and now I'm definitely not going to be able to pull it off. Her birthday is at the end of January, though, so if I could have it by then, that would rule!
Basically, the bar on the right of the screen has some gray dates, which I can access (all backups after the Mavericks install), and purple dates that go all the way back to March (when I originally purchased and began using the TC) which deny me access/viewing. It's possible that I created a slightly different user name when I reset my MacBook, which I guess is most likely the cause, but I have no idea what to do now to correct it. Thanks for taking the time!

Mavericks does really nasty stuff..
Try manually mounting the sparsebundle and extract the files you want.
Yet another Pondini reference. http://pondini.org/TM/15.html
We have avoided Mavericks you see knowing that it would cause these kinds of issues..
You never ever load a new OS without doing a disk image beforehand.. TM is not reliable enough or trustworthy to be depended on.
If none of the above work..
I would get a USB drive on the computer and install Mountain Lion or whatever OS you had before you unfortunately upgraded to Mavericks.. Then use TM from that decent installation but mount the sparsebundle and choose the backup from a date well before mavericks was installed.
Once you have extracted the files.. or even done a full restore you might be able to extract the files you want.

2006 iMac running 10.4 OS. I copied files to ext. drive. Put in 10.6 disc and did a clean install (format) of 10.6. Copied data from ext. drive back to Mac. I didn't get all the files. CAN I REVERT BACK TO THE 10.4 OS SO I CAN COPY MY DATA PROPERLY?

2006 iMac running 10.4 OS. I copied files to ext. drive. Put in 10.6 disc and did a clean install (format) of 10.6. Copied data from ext. drive back to Mac. I didn't get all the files. CAN I REVERT BACK TO THE 10.4 OS SO I CAN COPY MY DATA PROPERLY?

How did you copy files to the external drive, and what files did you copy? Did you drag and drop in the Finder? Use a clone utility? What files did not successfully copy?
If you reformatted the drive as part of your install, then you won't be able to recover any files from the drive. Reverting back to (reinstalling) 10.4 will not help you.
Do you have a complete-drive backup of your old system?
Matt

Copying Saved Data/Folders to a Fresh Install of Tiger

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for