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I have a new MacBook air that hangs on boot-up. I can restore from a Time Machine back up, but it is a day old and I would like to recover work I did today off the hard drive before restoring, if possible. Apple support tells me that this should be possible using Terminal, but was not able/allowed to tell me how to do this and referred me to the communities. As usual, timing is miserable as I leave on a 3-week business trip in a few hours and need my laptop and files. Can anyone help me to do this?
Many thanks!

First, you need to be able to boot from the Recovery HD:
Boot Using Command+R keys:
1. Restart the computer.
2. Immediately after the chime press and hold down the
"COMMAND" and the "R" keys together.
3. Release the keys when the Utilities Menu appears.
Once at the Utilities Menu select Terminal from the Utilities menu in the screen's menubar. Now, you need to know where these new files are located. You move to any location using the 'cd' command such as cd /Users/user_name/Documents, then press RETURN. Replace user_name with your actual username. Next you need to do a directory listing to see if your files are in that location, Documents. Use ls -al to do a directory listing of the files and folders in Documents. If you find your new files there, then connect an external drive or flash drive. You will need to know the name you have assigned to this drive. It needs to be already formatted. Copy your files using cp /Documents/filename /Volumes/volname/filename. Replace volname and filename with those that apply. Press RETURN.
Or take it to your local Apple Store and see if they can do the chore for you.

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