Couldn't Select File to Restore in Time Machine
Yesterday after running some experiments on an unrelated issue, I realized that a file on the Desktop I had been using in the experiment was gone. (I'd evidently moved it to the test folders instead of copying it with option-drag.) As that Mac was being backed up with Time Machine to a Time Capsule, I launched Time Machine, waited for the "Star Wars" display for the Desktop to appear, and navigated to a backup several hours before. I could see the file I wanted to restore, but even though I waited a number of minutes, but the Time Machine Finder window never "went live" (as opposed to grayed-out). As a result, I couldn't select the file I wanted to restore. Can anyone explain what would cause this? This all took place within the same OS X user, if that could have been an issue.
I finally gave up, used the Finder to open the mounted Time Machine "sparsebundle", opened a backup folder from several hours before, navigated to the user's Desktop, and used the Finder to copy the file back to the Desktop.
Yeah, I see that too on occasion, especially over a network.
I've asked Apple (several times) to put up a progress bar or wheel, or some indication that propagating the display is in process, but of course to no avail (along with ANY suggestions to add a Help button or any other explanation there, and Lion will be even worse for laptop users).
It does seem that TM keeps the status of the last display cached somewhere; when you select something different from the last time, you see the old timeline for a moment or two, then it starts re-propagating.
Other than the things in #E4, all I can suggest is patience; if it really seems frozen, cancel out and try again.
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