How I can recover data formated by time machine

I was using mac book pro in partition 250 GB Mac, 250 GB Windows 7
when I use time machine for back up, Time machine ask for hard drive and I choose window 7 HD,
Time machine formated the second hard drive and erased all window files and OS
Now how can I recove the data ?

From your Windows backup after reformatting the Windows partition.
Allan

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I have made a query and Document date format is DD/MM/YYYY but i want Document date Format as YYYYMMDD. Please help me out as soon as posible.
Thanks is advance.

Hi Harman,
By default query shows same date setting what is maitianed in SU01 (user maintenance). User can set the dates as they want. Ask user to log in BI system and go to system> User Profile> Own Data. They can select the date format and save the changes.
If you want to display same setting for all user, please select the format whenever you create any users and change for existing users.
Regards,
Kams

How Çan I Recover Files Without Using Time Machine?

Before Time Machine, you used to be able to recover files using, I think, one of the utilities.
Now if you search for "recover files" in Help, all the options involve using Time Machine with and without Spotlight.
I don't have a backup drive to use Time Machine yet but I would still like to try to recover an accidentally deleted folder.
How can I do that now without Time Machine?

Basics of File Recovery
If you simply put files in the Trash you can restore them by opening the Trash (left-click on the Trash icon) and drag the files from the Trash to your Desktop or other desired location. OS X also provides a short-cut to undo the last item moved to the Trash -press COMMAND-Z.
If you empty the Trash the files are gone. Recovery is possible but you must not allow any additional writes to the hard drive - shut it down. When you delete files you erase only the directory entries, not the files themselves. However, the space occupied by the files has been returned to the system as available for storage. Writing to the drive will then eventually overwrite the space once occupied by the deleted files in which case the files are lost permanently. Also if you save a file over an existing file of the same name, then the old file is overwritten and cannot be recovered.
If you stop using the drive it's possible to recover deleted files that have not been overwritten with recovery software such as Data Rescue II, File Salvage or TechTool Pro. Each of the preceding come on bootable CDs to enable usage without risk of writing more data to the hard drive.
The longer the hard drive remains in use and data are written to it, the greater the risk your deleted files will be overwritten.
Also visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on Data Recovery.
There has never been file recovery software in OS X. Recovering deleted files is not the same as restoring files from a backup. The best way to prevent losing a file is to maintain a backup. Obviously you aren't doing that, so you should consider adopting some kind of backup plan.
Basic Backup
Get an external Firewire drive at least equal in size to the internal hard drive and make (and maintain) a bootable clone/backup. You can make a bootable clone using the Restore option of Disk Utility. You can also make and maintain clones with good backup software. My personal recommendations are (order is not significant):
1. Retrospect Desktop (Commercial - not yet universal binary)
2. Synchronize! Pro X (Commercial)
3. Synk (Backup, Standard, or Pro)
4. Deja Vu (Shareware)
5. PsynchX 2.1.1 and RsyncX 2.1 (Freeware)
6. Carbon Copy Cloner (Freeware - 3.0 is a Universal Binary)
7. SuperDuper! (Commercial)
8. Intego Personal Backup (Commercial)
9. Data Backup (Commercial)
The following utilities can also be used for backup, but cannot create bootable clones:
1. Backup (requires a .Mac account with Apple both to get the software and to use it.)
2. Toast
3. Impression
4. arRSync
Apple's Backup is a full backup tool capable of also backing up across multiple media such as CD/DVD. However, it cannot create bootable backups. It is primarily an "archiving" utility as are the other two.
Impression and Toast are disk image based backups, only. Particularly useful if you need to backup to CD/DVD across multiple media.
Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQs on maintenance, optimization, virus protection, and backup and restore. Also read How to Back Up and Restore Your Files.
Although you can buy a complete FireWire drive system, you can also put one together if you are so inclined. It's relatively easy and only requires a Phillips head screwdriver (typically.) You can purchase hard drives separately. This gives you an opportunity to shop for the best prices on a hard drive of your choice. Reliable brands include Seagate, Hitachi, Western Digital, Toshiba, and Fujitsu. You can find reviews and benchmarks on many drives at Storage Review.
Enclosures for FireWire and USB are readily available. You can find only FireWire enclosures, only USB enclosures, and enclosures that feature multiple ports. I would stress getting enclosures that use the Oxford chipsets (911, 921, 922, for example.) You can find enclosures at places such as;
Cool Drives
OWC
WiebeTech
Firewire Direct
California Drives
NewEgg
All you need do is remove a case cover, mount the hard drive in the enclosure and connect the cables, then re-attach the case cover. Usually the only tool required is a small or medium Phillips screwdriver.

How do you access data on a Time Machine backup for a different computer?

The hard disk on my daughter's computer is having problems - it may be broken. If so, it may take a while to get the computer working again.
The information on the disk has been backed up to our Time Capsule using Time Machine. I can see the backup file sitting on the server.
How can I get access to the information in the file from my computer?
I have read that it is possible to browse other user's backup files from Time Machine by holding the Option key when clicking on the Time Machine icon in the status bar. This produces the menu choice "Browse other backup discs ...". When I select that option, I am given a choice of backup files, including my own file and my daughter's file. When I select my daughter's file, I go into Time Machine.
However, there is no data available to me. There is no timeline, and the windows behind the current finder window are all black. The same thing happens if I select my own backup file. (Entering Time Machine the normal way works fine.)
So, as far as I can tell, the "Browse other backup discs..." option is non-functional.
Is there some other way to access the data in that file?
I'm also concerned that when I finally get her computer working again, which may involve erasing the disk and re-installing the OS, or perhaps even replacing the disk entirely, that the repaired computer won't be able to access her backup file because I might not be able to recreate here username/uid with the same credentials as originally setup.

Hi,
Thanks for the response. Unfortunately, following the directions on that page does not help.
As I interpret it, I should be following the steps in the green box. I can get to the point where I am asked to select a backup file, and my daughter's backup file is one of the options. When I select that file, I am taken to the Star Wars interface.
In that interface, I can see a finder window in front. Behind that finder window are a series of other finder windows, as one would expect in the interface, but instead of being normal finder windows, they are simply black rectanges of the same size. I can browse within the front finder window, but that browsing is limited to the contents of my computer.
However, I did discover something interesting. If I follow the instructions in the pink box, which tells how to mount the disk image of the backup file, I am able to browse within the mounted backup file using a Finder window without entering TimeMachine at all. (Which to me is a big plus, since I think that the "Star Wars" interface is very bad.)
Of course, my daughter's file system is a mess. I'm going to have to give her some organizing advice. I'll also have to sit down with her after school to see if we can access the files that she needs.
Bottom line - I don't know at this point whether this is going to work, but mounting the backup file seems to have produced some progress.
Thanks,
Geoff

How do I recover another computer's time machine backup to an external drive

I did much searching on this and came up dry on how to clone a new drive on one computer (A) from a Time Capsule backup from another computer (B) for the purpose of installing on that other computer (B).
Specifically, I want to replace the drive in my wife's MacBook Pro (Snow Leopard 10.6.8) with an SSD. I have a drive Dock that can be attached to the iMac (Mavericks 10.9.3) with FireWire 800 (and also to the MBP using a much slower USB2). I wanted to allow her to use her MacBook Pro (browsing only, no new documents or emails) while I used my iMac to create her boot drive from her Time Capsule backup, but couldn't figure it out. Migration Assistant assumed I was migrating to my own Mac or to a remote Mac running MA. I couldn't figure out how to get CCC to just see one backup on Time Machine as input rather than the entire volume with all the backup versions. Everything I found with Google assumed I was using the MBP for the restore. CCC won't clone to a remote drive either--local only.
This is academic at this point as I connected the dock to the MBP over USB and am now using CCC to the attached drive, which will take several hours during which I assume we shouldn't be using the MBP. Maybe that was the only way all along? I suppose another way would have been to install the SSD in the MBP and boot from a DVD and use Migration Assistant. I'm just curious for the future as I help friends upgrade from time to time.

Since you don't really have a question, I will give you a very broad information source for the next time you have a Time Machine question.
Please visit Pondini's Time Machine FAQ for help with all things Time Machine.
Oh, you cannot use a computer whose only disk drive is the target of a an OS X cloning operation regardless of what software is used for the clone. You can, however, use the source drive except if you try to clone using Disk Utility.

How do I recover deleted notes from Time Machine?

Ok, I was away on a business trip for 3 weeks. While in the hotel, I was looking at my notes on my iPhone (I use iCloud with notes on an iPad, iPhone and Mac Mini running OSX Mavericks and time machine backups). I noticed iCloud had duplicated a couple of notes. I deleted the duplicate of each. Then the next time I went to check, any trace of those notes were gone.
I'm looking to figure out how to restore them with Mavericks. With Mountain Lion, it was fairly easy to go in to the mail folder in time machine, but now that notes are seperate from Mail, I'm having trouble figuring this out.
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~/Library/Application Support/iWeb/
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Recovering data from partial time machine backup

I bought an external hd to backup my macbook using time machine. During the initial backup with time machine the computer froze. I took it to the apple store and they said the hd crashed, so they replaced it.
i had the external hd with me and they showed me how to find the files in the backups folder (using Show Package Contents) and said that I could drag and drop to restore any files i wanted.
when i got home, i tried to copy the files from the .inprogress backup and i got error code 1426. i've tried to use migration assistant, but it doesn't recognize a partial backup. i've tried repairing the disk with disk utility. i know the files i want are there and i can even use them (i can, for example, run ms word from within the .inprogress backup file), but i can't free them from this external hd.
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to get a path to a folder you can drag it to the terminal window.
make sure all the spaces in the above command are there.

How do I recover files from a Time Machine backup after a clean system reinstall?

I had a really funky problem with my Japanese input that is too weird (and irrelevant at this point) to go into here. The gist is that I took my 13-inch, Mid-2012 MacBook Air to the Apple Store in Osaka, and one of their geniuses told me he couldn't isolate the cause and that the only solution was to do a complete reinstall. Of course, I had backed up my whole disk to my Time Capsule before going to the store. The problem is, I cannot do a straight backup, because that will simply bring back the unsolvable problem.
I got the MacBook Air home and used the moving assistant utlity (sorry, I don't know the English name for it since my system's in Japanese) to resinstall all my applications. So far so good. The problem is, I have no idea how to get my files, photos, music, and movies from the Time Capsule into my new account. I didn't see any option for that when I ran the moving assistant utility, and I absolutely do not want to resinstall anything from the old Library Folder.
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right - TM does not restore indivitual photos - you can find tehm on the TimeMachine backuo volume, copy to your Mac desktopa and import to iPhoto
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How can I retrieve data on a time machine if I have forgotten the password?

How can I retrieve data on a time machine if I have forgotten the password?

There are so many passwords.. which one do you mean?
TC password or disk password in the TC.. no problem.. soft reset.
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https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3372
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Plug an external drive into the computer and use that to expand data onto.
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I'm currently writing an application that has to be compatible with different database backends.
But I have some problems with the date/time fields when using Oracle as a db backend:
After searching the forums, I found a solution for my "inserts" problem:
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// ending the session and nullifying the ALTER SESSION command
con.setAutoCommit( false );
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Where query is something like "INSERT INTO DATE_TEST VALUES ('val1',"val2','val3','25/03/2004 15:59:44');
But when I want to retrieve this data, the timestamp is returned in another format:
result = stmt.executeQuery("SELECT * FROM DATE_TEST");
This gives me "2004-03-25 15:59:44.0" for the timestamp !
when I run exactly the same query in the Oracle SQL*Plus console, I get the correct format:
SQL> SELECT * FROM DATE_TEST;
VAL1 VAL2 VAL3 TIME
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SQL>
I already tried the trick with the NLS_DATE_FORMAT before retrieving the data, but that doesn't seem to do anything.
Any ideas how I can manipulate the format of a DATE field for retrieval ?
Note:
This is what I use:
- Oracle 9i, Release 2 (9.2.0.1.0) for Windows (on windows 2000 Server)
- ojdbc14.jar (Oracle thin jdbc driver)
- j2sdk 1.4.2-04 for my application (currently running on windows server 2003 Enterprise, but is also tested on windows 2000, xp, linux, solaris)

well, in fact I wrote a "dbAdapter" which I use to let my application communicate with a database.
the method I use to retrieve data from the db just reads the resultset row by row, adding each row to a
vector.
each row is represented by a hashtable (colname - colvalue pairs).
Vector result = dbadapter.queryDB("SELECT * FROM DATE_TEST");
the method "query" looks like this:
public Vector queryDB(String query) {
Connection con = null;
ResultSet result = null;
ResultSetMetaData metadata = null;
Vector tableData = new Vector();
Statement stmt = null;
try { // Attempt to load the JDBC driver with newInstance
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try {
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stmt = con.createStatement(ResultSet.TYPE_SCROLL_SENSITIVE,ResultSet.CONCUR_READ_ONLY); // TODO-ORACLE
catch (Exception e) {
logger.error(logPrefix + "problems connecting to " + sURL + ":" + e.getMessage());
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try {
con.close();
catch (Exception e2) {
return tableData;
} // end catch
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try {
result = stmt.executeQuery(query);
// first display some metadata
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try {
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try {
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then I display the data using this code (output goes to a logfile):
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It is correct indeed that I want to keep it as vendor neutral as possible, because other databases will
be added in the (near) future (such as IBM's DB2)
I already thought about formatting it using the SimpleDateFormat class, but then I have to rewrite most
of the code in my dbAdapter, because it doesn't know anything about the field types.
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