HT201250 How to restore laptop from time capsule after replacing hard drive

How do I reload all my programs and files from a time capsule after changing hard drive? Also Apple store reloaded with Snow Leopard and not Lion. Will that be a problem? Thank you

Plug the external drive into a computer by usb or whatever box you have available..
When you say blank, is it correctly formatted.. we recommend HFS+ which is Mac OS Extended (jorrnaled)
Make sure you use GUID type disk setup not MBR if it came from PC world.
Copy the files via finder from TC to the external drive.

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Trying to restore from time capsule to nes hard drive, keeps looking for disks ! Can you help

ccan't restore from time capsule to new hard drive, after changing to new HD, after calculating required space to restore it keeps looking for disks! Have have put original OS X install disk 1 in it won't Eject , any help

The very best way to do this is with ethernet to the existing router. Put the TC in bridge mode manually.
Then plug it in to existing router.. we recommend LAN router to WAN on the TC but even that is not 100% necessary.
If you want to link by wireless, to a non-apple router that is bad.. recommend strongly against it. Join a wireless network is super slow.
If you have a desktop Mac you can plug it directly into the Mac by ethernet.
But we need to know how the Mac is connected to internet.
I have given some info on one layout here.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4817218?tstart=30
If you end up relying on an old TC. And any of the models from Gen1-3.. and increasingly Gen4 have all reached EOL.. they can die suddenly and either take your files with them or be hard to recover. Also a TC is slow cf a USB external drive even, which is more reliable. Considering a 2TB is <$100 I would be careful using an old TC simply because you got it free.

How to restore files from Time Machine after Clean Install of Mavericks

How to restore files from Time Machine after Clean Install of Mavericks. I know the data is there but seems unaccessable because I may have changed the Computer or Owner name. Is there any way to fix that now?

Hi Linc,
my back-up data is managed by Time Machine; the actual data is on a second internal Hard Drive with a capacity of 1TB - not partitioned. I am using Time Machine and have access to all data backed up since Mavericks Clean Install but not the data prior to this date.
When I open the 1TB drive in Finder I can see a folder "Backups.backupdb/Sigi's Mac Pro/ followed by many folders of backup dates going back to 2010-09-20-103441 and up to 2014-02-07-142414 all followed with folder Macintosh HD. February 7th 2014 was the date of the clean install.
These Backups are followed by backup date folder 2014-02-08-075554 with a subfolder of MacPro-320GB (this is the name I assigned to my Boot Drive during formatting; I suspect I should have assigned the same name as before ie. Macintosh HD) and 2014-02-11 with a subfolder Macintosh HD, these are the ones I get access to by way of Time Machine > Restore.
Weird thing is on Febr 11 when I relised my possible mistake and renamed the Bootdrive back to what it was initially ie. Macintosh HD despite this I have access to all backup data since the Clean Install in both folders MacPro-320GB as well as Macintosh HD but not to any data prior to the Clean Install.
Is there something that Time Machine knows and prevents access or is it simply a matter of renaming the subfolder 2014-02-08-07554/MacPro-320GB to ........./Macintosh HD?
I like to restore selectively and not everything - It was hard work reinstalling apps that were supposed to be the troublemakers (ref my discussion on Maverick problems) but I now need to get onto data specific to some of these apps as well as other data I may have missed. Long story? Yes and sorry.
Sigi

How to restore from Time Capsule to bare hard drive

This is more for information, than a question, but I really hope that it helps someone else out facing the same challenge.
Scenario:
1 complete recent backup on Time Capsule
2 failed hard drive on Mac
3 no startup or OS disk
[My teenage daughter was distraught, as her much loved and much abused MacBook Pro died completely on a college tour; quick diagnosis confirmed that the hard drive was completely toast. And with it, she believed, all of her work this summer on her college applications.
That was the bad news. Now for the good news. Unbeknownst to her, I had configured her machine to automatically backup to the Time Capsule on the home network.
Now the problem. We just moved home. No OS disks. No install disks. And I discovered that she hadn't told me that the optical disk drive was also toast. So no way to get a disk in, in any case.
So I have a backup, and a new hard drive to go into the dead Mac, and (fortunately) a good Mac (actually several). But all of the guides assume that you have some way to get the zombie Mac to boot.]
Solution:
1 figure out spec for new hard drive, find one, buy it and install new hard drive in dead Mac (making it a zombie Mac - it moves but it has no real brains) http://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/0/MA161/en_US/MacBook_13inch_HardDrive_DIY .pdf and http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/MacBook+Pro+13-Inch+Unibody+Mid+2010+Hard+Drive+Repl acement/4305/1
2 mount hard drive as FireWire disk in Target mode by using ⌘T to any good Mac
3 download Carbon Copy Cloner http://www.bombich.com/
4 start the process of cloning, which involves creating a (hidden) Recovery HD partition http://help.bombich.com/kb/advanced-strategies/the-disk-center#recovery_hd
5 do NOT proceed to clone the 'good Mac', ejecting the formerly dead Mac, which was a zombie Mac, and now has a brain again, and shut it down
6 connect the now undead Mac to the Time Capsule
7 boot the now undead Mac, and restore as usual from the Time Capsule http://pondini.org/TM/14.html
[... and thereby obtain many many good father points]

Read Q14-18 in Pondini.. the grand poohbah of Time Machine.
http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html

Restoring files from Time Capsule after upgrading from Leopard to Snow Leopard.

I just purchased Time Capsule so I could back up all 105GB of data from my 2 year old, iMac 24 running Leopard.
I've been having issues, especially with Safari, so I'm (finally) upgrading to Snow Leopard.
My Time Capsule is being used as a SAN and is joining my already existing network via ethernet connection.
When I install Snow Leopard, I plan on blowing out Leopard and running Snow Leopard fresh from scratch, not doing an upgrade.
Will I be able to restore my files, iTunes, and photos from Time Capsule like if I were moving them from a flash drive, even though my iMac has changed?
I don't know if I'm thinking that Time Capsule is getting an image of my iMac and when I blow it out and load Snow Leopard on it, it won't be able to read it again...
But I'm thinking if the answer if yes, which mean I could move files backed up from my iMac to my MacBook Air. Right?
Thanks

Anyone has an answer?

Time Capsule after new hard drive installed.

I am new to this and consider myself a novice Mac person.
I just installed a 500gb Seagate hard drive and reinstalled my MAC OS on my Macbook.
I restored my old info onto the new hard-drive.
Do I need to reset the time capsule to do back-ups?
Will it automatically back-up wirelessly off the new hard-drive?
Should I reset the time capsule?

If you used Time Machine to restore your entire system, you shouldn't have to do anything special.
If not, you might have to set TM up again.
But do be aware that the first backup will be a full one, since everything on your new drive is +*new to that drive.+*
If there isn't enough room on your TC for a new, full backup, you might consider either erasing the TC's internal disk or deleting the sparse bundle. Otherwise, it will take Time Machine a very long time to make room.
I'd strongly advise you to connect to the TC via an Ethernet cable until the first backup is done; it will be much faster than WIFI.

How to restore data from time capsul

How can you restore your data from Apple Time Capsule?
Would it be an idea to share your back up with others? And can it be done?

Read Q14-17 here.
Q18 covers copying backups to other locations.
http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html
If you want a secondary backup use another tool. A direct disk image from superduper is free to do.. and works much better to do a restore of the computer.

Restoring from Time Machine after 1T hard drive replacement

I am a super computer novice. I picked up my computer yesterday after having the recalled Seagate hard drive replaced. I backed up my computer using Time Machine before I took it in on a Seagate "Backup Plus" portable hard drive.
Now, when I have tried to use the restore start up, the computer recognizes that my drive is connected, but says there are no files on that drive it can use to restore the system.
I can see that there are 50GB on the disk, and when I look in it, there are files called "Macintosh HD" so that makes me think that my stuff is in fact on my external drive. why can't my computer see it?
Do I need to get a FireWire cord to connect to my computer? I'm using the USB 3.0 that came with the hard drive.
My computer had Mountain Lion when I backed it up. I think it is back to whatever OS it came with originally. Do I need to update to Mountain Lion? If I do, how do I do so without having to pay for it again? My app store is empty since my computer was wiped.
Thanks for the help, I really need it!

The first thing to do is upgrade back to ML, which you can easily do. Just redownload ML from the app store with the same AppleID you used the previous time you purchased the ML upgrade. Your purchase is tied to the AppleID you used when buying, so you can download it again (as many times as you wish) without payment as long as you use the same AppleID.
Once you have upgrade it to ML, then try the restore from the backup (which I gather was made when while running ML before).

Restore iTunes library from Time Machine, after full hard drive wipe

I had to do a full hard drive wipe on my MBP running 10.6.6, so I made a full Time Machine backup before hand. I reinstalled os x (10.6.3) and used migration assistant to restore my files from the Time Machine backup.
Most of this process has been painless, however, when I open iTunes it's empty. I have all the music files, iTunes Library.itdb, iTunes Library Extras.itdb and iTunes Library Genius.itdb. Is there a way to restore my previous iTunes library with these files? I feel like this should be a pretty basic thing to do but I haven't found much/any documentation of it online. Any help would be much appreciated.

Take the files that you list and the iTunes music folder from the TM b/u and drag them to the iTunes folder. To put it in simpler terms - drag the iTunes folder from the TM to the same location on the internal HD.
By default the path should be HD>User>Your Account>Music>iTunes(your iTunes files are here)>iTunes Music (your music files are here)
MJ

How i can use my time capsule as an hard driver

i cant copy any file to my time capsule
it is 2 tb v 7.6.3
my system is mac 10.8.2

Did this problem start with 7.6.3 which is one of the poorest firmware updates ever.. or was it pre-existing??
If it started with firmware update.. best resolution is downgrade again.. It offers you nothing in 99% of cases. Totally useless.
If it was issue beforehand.. do a factory reset of the TC.. this will not effect data on the drive.. and redo the whole setup.
You might find just a reboot gets it going though.. this is just buggy mountain lion.

Time Capsule after Macbook hard drive upgrade

I just upgraded my original 60GB HD to a Seagate 500GB HD. I could see when I started the Time Capsule backup that it was going to back up the entire drive again. This took most of the night. When I went into the TC this am, I could only go back in time as far as when the TC completed the backup on the new drive.
My question is: should I ever need to retrieve anything from before that time, how do I do it? Would I have to reinstall my original drive?

rowen61 wrote:
I just upgraded my original 60GB HD to a Seagate 500GB HD. I could see when I started the Time Capsule backup that it was going to back up the entire drive again. This took most of the night. When I went into the TC this am, I could only go back in time as far as when the TC completed the backup on the new drive.
My question is: should I ever need to retrieve anything from before that time, how do I do it? Would I have to reinstall my original drive?
Hi, and welcome to the forums.
Your previous backups are probably still there, but remember, they're from a different disk, which is no longer connected. See #E3 in the Time Machine - Troubleshooting *User Tip,* also at the top of the +Time Machine+ forum.

Problem with time machine after replacing hard drive

A couple of days ago i went to the apple store and got the hard drive replaced on my macbook pro. When i got home i realized i couldnt back up from my time capsule. When i open time machine the only backups i can find are from "today" and i cant find anything else. I have not deleted anything and have not got any warnings about any backups being deleted.
I then went in to the time capsule from the sidebar in finder -> data, in which i found two sparsebundles. When clicking on the one i needed, i got this message:"no mountable filesystems". And from here on i dont know what to do.
I have been reading all over the forum, but can not find the answer. Also have in mind i am NOT a mac geek and know very little about this. I just want my important files back on my mac in a way i can understand.
Any help appreciated!

MAC.sparsebundle modified 21.june 2011 and MACBOOKpro.sparsebundle modified today
MAC.sparsebundle is the one i want to access.
2011-07-05 20:02:19 +0200: Disk Utility started.
2011-07-05 20:04:41 +0200: Verifying volume “Time Machine-sikkerhetskopier”
Starting verification tool: 2011-07-05 20:04:41 +0200
2011-07-05 20:04:41 +0200: Invalid content in Journal
2011-07-05 20:04:41 +0200: Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
2011-07-05 20:04:41 +0200: Detected a case-sensitive catalog.
2011-07-05 20:04:45 +0200: Checking Extents Overflow file.
2011-07-05 20:04:56 +0200: Checking Catalog file.
2011-07-05 20:23:35 +0200: Stopped by user
Verifying tool completed: 2011-07-05 20:23:35 +0200
2011-07-05 20:23:35 +0200:
2011-07-05 20:23:35 +0200:
2011-07-05 20:23:38 +0200: Verify and Repair volume “Time Machine-sikkerhetskopier”
Starting repair tool: 2011-07-05 20:23:38 +0200
2011-07-05 20:23:40 +0200: Invalid content in Journal
2011-07-05 20:23:40 +0200: Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
2011-07-05 20:23:43 +0200: Detected a case-sensitive catalog.
2011-07-05 20:23:47 +0200: Checking Extents Overflow file.
2011-07-05 20:23:54 +0200: Checking Catalog file.
2011-07-05 20:41:30 +0200: Stopped by user
Repair tool completed: 2011-07-05 20:41:33 +0200
2011-07-05 20:41:33 +0200:
2011-07-05 20:41:33 +0200:

IMac doesn't find my time machine after replacing hard drive

The Apple Store replaced my hard drive today, after determining it was shot. We then had trouble getting my time machine to connect to my machine, but finally got it connected after changing the password, and FIVE hours later I left the Apple store. My challenge is when I plugged in the Time Machine when I got home, my computer is not showing it in the Airport Utility. I am less than fluent in this stuff, can anyone walk me through how to get connected again?
Stephani

500 GB, $219.68 installed. So imagine how annoyed I was when I called Apple Care and they wouldn't help me on the phone unless I paid for support tonight.
Light is blinking amber on the TM.

How to reinstall os x 10.7 after replacing hard drive?

Hi,
Can anyone tell me how I can reinstall my purchased copy of OS X 10.7 (Lion) to my new hard drive. The hard drive in my imac recently died. I had to replace with a new one. It is currently running on 10.6.8 (snow leopard) because I used the CD to put on the OS after formatting. However, I prior to the dead drive, I purchased a Lion and was running on Lion. My purchase was on line so there is no CD. How can I make this upgrade again? Do I have to pay apple again for Lion?
Thanks

You will ultimately have to download it over the Internet. Or I don't know, you could take your computer to an Apple Store and have them do it.
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/07/how-to-create-a-bootable-backup-mountain-li on-install-disk/

Where does restored data from time capsule get placed

Where does restored data from time capsule get placed?
For instance, is the data seamlessly placed where it was missing or corrupted, or does it enter a program under some separate "heading" in the program 1) if letter is restored to Mail, 2) if entire mailbox restored to Mail, 3) if single letter restored to Documents, 4) if several photos to iPhoto, 5) if one folder restored to desktop.

Cannot answer all your questions, but will answer regarding iPhoto.
You cannot restore individual photos to iPhoto, you must restore the entire iPhoto Library.
When you do this, you are given several options. See the shot below for details:
The restored library will be placed in the default location....the Pictures folder

HT201250 How to restore laptop from time capsule after replacing hard drive

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