Have Lion (10.7.3) and can't get my Time Machine to hook up???

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If they no longer have any in stock you will have to buy it from eBay or Apple resellers that still have stock. But you will have to pay a premium since the DVDs are no longer being made. Snow Leopard DVDs are already up to $100 on Amazon.
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=10.6+snow+leopard&_sacat=0&_odkw=mac+os+10.6 &_osacat=0
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. Do not know what version I had to start with. When I
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to close the Internet explorer and bartshel!
If i do this then there is nothing left to load.
I tried to save it to my desktop but then itt says no active thread foun
d. How do I load it without my Internet being open and a
dobe site up and running when it tells me to close them?

Thanks the address you gave me gave me what I needed but still had alot of trouble with the game. Come to find out it was my browser IE8 that was causing all the problem. So I changed to google chrome and loaded the regular version of Flash player and have been able to get on the game. Now i have trouble with my plugins can you send me a link to find Adobe flash player plugin 9.0.124.0?
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 19:39:16 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: I have Windows XP 32 bit and can not get Adobe flash player to load!!! Do not know what version I ha
Hi,
Could you download the appropriate version of the installer from the following page?
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/889580?tstart=0
Once downloaded, please quit all of your browsers and launch the installer. If it still fails, please restart your system and try again. Let me know how it goes.
Thanks,
Chris
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Reset the printing system:
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You might post this query on the iPhoto forum and perhaps someone there can provide an answer.
I tried this on my MBP and it seems that you have to restore the entire iPhoto Library. What I did was put the current library in a separate folder on the desktop and then I restored the library from a prior date. If you were to do that, you then could extract the desired photos and then delete the restored library. Then place the current library back to the original location and import the desired photos.
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Yeap that all makes sense now.
Do you only have the current backup showing in the TM display?? Won't it fill in the rest?
Over wireless are you waiting for the indexing to finish.. ??
Previous backup may not show for a couple of hours.
Long short of it.. Mavericks version of TM is a pain.
Sometimes it is easier to completely ignore the TM backup and do the restore manually.
I have posted the details here. See if this helps.
Can't access old files on time capsule

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I've seemed to have deleted my iPhoto app and can't get back to my desktop. It had numerous pictures of mine included and can't find them in my hard drive where do i find it and restore it?

I've been trying to do some cleanup on my mac, and somehow have removed my iPhoto from my desktop and can't get it back, i don't know how to get it back. I've had years of pictures on it and am going to be pretty hot if i can't get it back up.

Is it in your Applications Folder?
If not
To re-install iPhoto
1. Put the iPhoto.app in the trash (Drag it from your Applications Folder to the trash)
2a: On 10.5: Go to HD/Library/Receipts and remove any pkg file there with iPhoto in the name.
2b: On 10.6: Those receipts may be found as follows: In the Finder use the Go menu and select Go To Folder. In the resulting window type
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3. Re-install.
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ICloud sent emails disappeared and can't restore from Time Machine

I'm having a very weird problem with my iCloud email. Sometime between last Friday and Saturday, all the sent messages on iCloud disappeared. They disappeared from the webmail and from all my devices (Macbook, iMac, iPhone, iPad). All the other mailboxes on iCloud are still intact.
Since I have a Time Machine backup, I tried to restore the messages. I can see all the messages on Time Machine, and I can browse and open them individually but if I try to restore them, nothing apparently happens (a dialog box saying "Restoring messages from iCloud" appears for a few seconds then disappears and no message has been restored). I tried restoring the entire Sent mailbox, then a few messages and then just one message with the same result.
I suspected a corruption in the mailbox, so I repaired the disk (no errors found) and reindexed the mailbox according to this article http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14876 and tried again but still no luck.
I'm very puzzled. Any advice?

Don't know why they disappeared. Did you check all setting for the mailbox behaviors? If any are set to delete from the servers after a certain amount of time, then it will do that. Make sure you check each device carefully where the sent messages are stored (server, going to trash).
Also check iCloud.com website and make sure sent messages aren't being sent to trash and deleted after a number of days also.
Also, deselect all iCloud mail from all other devices to test and solve from here. That way no other device will interfer with sent messages. Be sure to check iCloud.com settings also.
When you restore from TM, you should do it from the Mail Application. Open mail and choose Sent Mailbox. Click to enter TM. Go back in time till you see your messages. Click to restore. A folder for TM will appear in the sidebar under On My Mac section. If it is not expanded, place the cursor over On My Mac and choose Show (it will appear when the cursor is over it). You should see your recovered messages there.

How can I get my Time Machine to Quit Failing?

I've got a MacBook Pro running Mavericks 10.9.2, and I'm hooked up to two 27" external thunderbolt displays daisy chained together when I'm at work. On one of the monitors I've got a hard drive attached via USB that is my time machine backup. The amazing glory of having to only plug in the one thunderbolt cable plus a power connection is severly dimished by the fact that most of the time when I unplug my thunderbolt monitors my time machine hard drive gets corrupted. Which then I have to wipe the drive, and rebackup my entire hard drive. The issue can't be resolved from repairing the disk in disk utility. All because I didnt eject the drive before unhooking. It's 2014 for christs sake, why is this an issue at all?
I need suggestions on how to get it so that I dont have to eject the drive before unhooking the thunderbolt monitors. This is super frustrating, and I'm at my wits end. I've thought about creating an apple script to automatically eject the drive about the time I usually unhook my laptop from the monitors, but I can't anticipate last minute meetings, or days when I leave early/late. Maybe I need to look at another backup option? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Yeap that all makes sense now.
Do you only have the current backup showing in the TM display?? Won't it fill in the rest?
Over wireless are you waiting for the indexing to finish.. ??
Previous backup may not show for a couple of hours.
Long short of it.. Mavericks version of TM is a pain.
Sometimes it is easier to completely ignore the TM backup and do the restore manually.
I have posted the details here. See if this helps.
Can't access old files on time capsule

Can I get a time machine hard drive to restore onto Windows XP?

Yeah, I just bought an iMac and I figured why not sell my Mac Mini? So I have time machine on and I back up all my files to my external hard drive of course. Now, sense I am selling my Mac Mini, I need to use Windows XP on my old PC for a month cause I custom ordered an iMac and that takes 6 weeks. Will my external hard drive with time machine back ups work with Windows XP so I can restore all of my files from my hard drive to Windows XP? and than also, will I be able to put my files back onto the hard drive and than load them all up to my new iMac?

The external hard drive you have been using for Time Machine will most likely not be recognized by Windows XP. The external hard drive is formated as HPFS. You may be able to read files from it (not sure) but you won't be able to write anything new.
When you get your new iMac, however, you can plug in that external hard drive and tell Leopard to load your account, documents, bookmarks, contacts, applications, etc. It will make your new iMac look like and behave like your old mac mini. It's pretty cool.
I hope this helps,
Julian

Have Lion (10.7.3) and can't get my Time Machine to hook up???

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