Genius Bar lost a business file. Can't seem to find it in Time Machine...Got Ideas?
Genius Bar lost a business financial file. Can't seem to find it in Time Machine. Gone back several days...Got Ideas?
You need to give me more info..
What did you take the Mac to the genius for??
What did they do to it?
Did you have TM setup at defaults doing backups hourly?
Are you using a Time Capsule? Did you ever backup the time capsule??
Please do a backup of your Time Machine backup right now.. in TC plug in a suitable sized USB drive and do an archive.. you can do nothing else while this is happening but it is crucial for you to have another copy of whatever you have.
Archive is a bit slow.. and the backup is slightly less useful.
The fastest method is plug the USB into your computer and copy and paste the backups.backupdb directly to the USB drive. It should copy at around 60GB/hr so calculate how long that will take. See instructions here. http://pondini.org/TM/18.html Assuming you are using a TC then you use method 4.. copying from a Network backup to local drive.
Never work directly from the original backup .. work just from this copy so anything you do can be reversed or recovered.
Read very carefully the methods of restoring files from TM.. it is a bit out of date but Pondini has the best details.
So Q14-17 here. http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html
You can do a full recovery of the backup to a USB drive.. and then search for your file in more normal way.
Get professional help.. and this is where you need data recovery people who are familiar with apple TM backup format. Check local apple store or perhaps better local Apple independent repair business that are used to handling this kind of event.
Also talk to the company that makes the software as they must have to deal with people who manage to lose, corrupt or in some other way ruin their data and need to recover.. see what hints they can give you.
Surely at some point you pass your info to your accountant in the form of a computer backup file from your accounting package.
I have to admit I am surprised if you never backed up your business data file to a USB stick and put it in a filing cabinet at home or a hard disk at a friends place.. Cloud storage for your business files.. Did you depend totally on TM for backups? You never planned for a fire or theft of your computer and TC?? Or what has happened.. loss of computer files and failure of the backup? No greater teacher than the burnt hand that touching hot stuff isn't a good idea. Sorry .. it is a very hard lesson.. but electronic data storage on magnetic media is ever one byte away from being gone forever.. !!
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Genius Bar lost a business file
Can you tell me why, if I travel backward to an earlier date in Time Machine prior to my trip to the Genius Bar on Thursday 3/27/15 and open the Account Edge NE folder, shouldn't my lost file be in there? If the lost file was lost on 3/27/15, wouldn't it still exist prior to that date? How could that file and ALL history of that file disappear. Is there any way to recover that lost file somewhere hidden in my computer? Or is my only hope to download another version of that application and rebuild all lost work.....Help!!!!
Did you continue to use the same backup after the repairs were done on the computer? This is really important.
If you did keep using the Time Machine backup that existed before whatever event took place that resulted in the loss of the file.. Time Machine itself can have found the file gone in your computer and deleted it from the entire backup.. that is how Time Machine works..
It is a current snapshot of the computer.. with some history recorded.. but once a file is gone.. it can at any future point.. delete the file that it now discovers is missing.
If the computer was rebuilt using the backup and the file is not there. It could also have never been backed up.. as we discussed in the last thread.. if you have never had to go looking for it and trusted to blind luck it was there.. in this case you lucked out.
What did apple do to your computer?? We never established that.
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