HT201250 Recover previous data on HHD after run Time machine

Hello, how can I recover the data which were on the external HHD and that have been canceled after having run the time machine for the first backup? I had all my pictures on it .... :-( Thanks for your help !!!

If you continue to use your machine it will be impossible to recover anything. You might look into data recovery software or take it to data recovery service. Could prove to be very expensive.

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Spinning Ball on Startup After Running Time Machine

I was running Time Machine for the first time today (backing up to a MyBook 750GB drive). While running it, I plugged my iPod in to sync it and got the spinning ball for an extended period. I quit time machine and restarted. Now, I can't get the system to reboot all the way. I've got it back to the desktop, but none of my folders or my drives are showing. Just the spinning beach ball. I've reset the PRAM about 5 times now and am running our of options.
Thoughts? (Other than wipe my drive)

Hi,
Install the v10.6.6 combo update available here. It's ok to do this even though you are already running v10.6.6. The combo includes fixes that were not included in the original update.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1349
Restart your Mac and try the MAS again.
You can download apps directly from the MAS once you have it running.
Considering the TM backup took so long, make sure there's enough space on your Mac startup disk.
Right or control click the MacintoshHD icon. Click Get Info. In the Get Info window you will see Capacity and Available. *Make sure you always have a minimum of 15% free disk space.*
Carolyn

Can I just delete a previous date from my list in Time Machine?

I have a 1TB hard drive from LaCie and it's almost full. Is it possible to go back to earlier this year and just delete the back up for a certain date?
I can see in the data in the file tree and it looks like Time Machine has literally copied my hard drive for each saved back up...
That's a LOT of data to be saving.
Am I right? It's not compressed in any way?

Here's the problem - I sent my laptop in for repairs, and when it came back, the system no longer recognized the "Backups.backupdb" file that had been running since January - it created a new instance of my computer (2) - and did the whole copy again! (1million+ files) Now I have an old backup file that runs from January 08 to Oct. 10, 2008 and a new one that started October 15. Can I just delete their original one and continue with the current one?
I really don't need to keep stuff since January and I've archived important stuff on DVDs for storage.

App store won't open after running time machine reinstall

my HD crashed last week, got it replaced and just got my iMac back (20" intel). I ran a restore from my Time Machine backup from before the crash (took forever, but finished).
All looked fine but I found two problems...
1) Safari would crash without opening. I fixed that by just downloading and reinstalling Safari.
2) the App store does the same thing. the icon jumps a few times and then just stops and won't open. Unfortunately, it's part of the OS and it doesn't seem Apple allows direct downloads of the App Store app. I'm current on my OS so I'm not sure how to fix this problem.
Again, summary, restore from Time Machine, App Store won't open, OS is up-to-date. Any suggestions?

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Install the v10.6.6 combo update available here. It's ok to do this even though you are already running v10.6.6. The combo includes fixes that were not included in the original update.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1349
Restart your Mac and try the MAS again.
You can download apps directly from the MAS once you have it running.
Considering the TM backup took so long, make sure there's enough space on your Mac startup disk.
Right or control click the MacintoshHD icon. Click Get Info. In the Get Info window you will see Capacity and Available. *Make sure you always have a minimum of 15% free disk space.*
Carolyn

HP G 42 UNABLE TO RECOVER OLD DATA AND FOLDERS AFTER I RAN RECOVERY TO FACTORY SETTINGS

HP G 42 UNABLE TO RECOVER OLD DATA AND FOLDERS AFTER I RAN RECOVERY TO FACTORY SETTINGS

Factory restore erases everyting on the drive, if you did not back up first, they are gone forever.

Running Time Machine after 'Archive and Install'

I had a strange problem with my iMac with finder and dock crashing on booting and not being able to open any files. It's been off to an Apple centre for repair, they've done an archive and install to replace the OS, and I apparently now need to run Time Machine to restore my system (don't have the computer back yet).
Am I right in thinking I'll just plug in Time Machine hard drive, insert my Leopard CD and then use Utilities > Restore System?
What's worrying me is I'm going to reintroduce the problem that was fixed by the Archive and Install in the first place! Any help or thoughts very much appreciated,
Andrew

AndyAsb wrote:
I had a strange problem with my iMac with finder and dock crashing on booting and not being able to open any files. It's been off to an Apple centre for repair, they've done an archive and install to replace the OS, and I apparently now need to run Time Machine to restore my system (don't have the computer back yet).
as mentioned you don't have to do that after an archive and install.
Am I right in thinking I'll just plug in Time Machine hard drive, insert my Leopard CD and then use Utilities > Restore System?
What's worrying me is I'm going to reintroduce the problem that was fixed by the Archive and Install in the first place!
that's very likely to happen if the problem was not hardware. did they do anything with the computer besides doing an archive and install? if not, you most definitely should NOT do a full system restore from TM as this would bring your problems back.
Any help or thoughts very much appreciated,
Andrew

HT201250 I run time machine on my iMac using an external hard drive. I just bought a MacBook Pro and want to know if i can run time machine on it using my wireless network on to the iMac external hard drive

I run time machine on my iMac using an external hard drive. I just bought a MacBook Pro and want to know if i can run time machine on it using my wireless network on to the iMac external hard drive

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How do I retrieve data from a 500 GB Time Machine used as external hard drive?

I have a very particular situation. For several years I used a 500GB Time Machine as a wi-fi broadcaster, a back up, and also as external storage for iTunes - I 'partitioned' it to allow for it's use as an external drive.
Fast forward, and I've replaced the Time Machine with a new 3 TB Time Machine, as well as purchased a separate external drive (3 TB Western Digital) to store my iTunes files (so I no longer need to partition). The new Time Machine is my wi-fu hub.
The problem: I need to retrieve the 300 gb of audio files that are on my old partitioned Time Machine, and move them to my new WD external drive. I've already set up the new Time Machine as my wi-fi broadcaster, and de-activated the old Time Machine.
(I had tried to move the files previous to setting up the new Time Machine, but I realized after de-activating it that I wasn't as thorough as I thought, so I need to go back and move them again.)
I've tried to re-connect to the old Time Machine using an ethernet cable, but when I do, it recognizes it as my wi-fi hub, and it screws up my network - it suddenly allows me access to the old Time Machine, but blocks access to the new WD external drive.
So in a nutshell - I need to be able to connect the old Time Machine to my laptop (a Macbook running OS X 10.7.5) and have my new network see it as just an external drive - so I can then move the 300 GB of audio files directly on to my new WD external drive.
Any thoughts on how I can do this?

Why not connect both drives to the computer, turn off the wi-fi, and then copy the files over. Or you can use Disk Utility/Restore to move the files. See the note - it will erase the WD drive.
You can then set things back to the way you want them. You should have more than one back up as hard drives do fail. In this case, you could use a clone and keep it on the WD drive.
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When i run Time Machine to back up my computer onto an external hard drive, i have no way of knowing when the back up process has been completed. I don't know when it is safe to disconnect the external hard drive - which is store in a separate location.

When i run Time Machine to back up my computer on to an external hard drive, i have no way of knowing when the back up process has been completed. This is necessary to know because i don't leave my external hard drive connected to the computer. I routinely disconnect it after backing up the hard drive, and then i store the external hard drive in a different location from the computer. So, knowing when the back up process has been completed would be a very helpful thing to have the computer specify.

Just enable Time Machine's menu extra (System Preferences -> Time Machine -> Show Time Machine in menu bar.
This will add a little Time Machine icon to your menubar. When Time Machine is actively backing up your data, the icon will spin as a visual indicator. You can also click the menu icon to see the backup status, including how much data is left to back up.

Error 18 after moving Time Machine to a bigger disk.

Good evening, I have been running Time Machine since August and everything was fine. Now my internal drive is getting full and I wanted to move it to a bigger drive and since I was doing that I figure why not time machine.
Here are the original stats.....
PowerMac G4 DP 1Ghz Quicksilver
1.25GB of RAM
Two internal Disks 74.5 (Formated) each with the secondary being my primary disk.
189.9 (Formated) GB Maxtor with 125GB at the end of the disk being devoted to Time Machine.
10.5.7
Following instructions and other users experiences from here
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2028949&tstart=0
I copied my time machine disk using Disk Utility Restore to a Seagate FreeAgent 934GB (formated) disk, that work successfully and that was July 11th. A few days of mandatory backups and scheduled backups and everything worked well.
So today I decided to test the integrity of the backups made recently before I erased the 200GB Maxtor and move my HD to there. Since there were no other options available I partitioned the FreeAgent 1TB drive with Time Machine on there to a 74.5GB Partition at the bottom of the disk with a 5GB of blank free space in between TM and the test partition. That took about an hour to partition. Before I left for work I loaded off of my Retail Install DVD and ran a repair on the FreeAgent Drive since TM hasn't done a deep transversal and I wanted to force it.
According to my brother the repair went without a hitch, okay and he shut down the computer. When I came home started off of internal started a mandatory backup looked at the log message using the Time Machine Buddy Widget saw it was doing a deep transversal and I stepped out. When I came back I noticed Time Machine Menu had an "!" on it/in it saying there was an error, I loaded TM Buddy and it said there as an error 18 on the scheduled backup AFTER the mandatory backup.
Sarting standard backup
Volume at path /Volumes/ALN Perm Backup Disk does not appear to be the correct backup volume for this computer. (Cookies do not match)
Backup failed with error: 18
Now the mandatory backup that I did when I came back went smoothly and so did the next scheduled backup apparently, however I am not sure if this is just a one time error or something else until the next schedule backup sometime tomorrow (right now the drive has been ejected and TM turned off.)
So does anybody have any insight into the cause behind this.
My theory is it could be since I partitioned the new Time Machine Backup to a smaller size but then again I have in past extended the old Time Machine backup by utilizing some free space I left at the end of the drive which is ummm 15.4GB.
To clarify on the old Time Machine backup which is still holding original data...
42.00GB of an Old 10.4 Installation
125GB of Time Machine
15.4 of unformatted free space.
Hope all this information helps any questions please ask.
Have a good night

That particular error happens on occasion after switching a TM drive from one Mac to another, erasing your TM disk/partition, or attaching a new TM drive with the same name as an old one.
You can usually fix this by simply re-selecting your TM drive in TM Preferences > Change Disk.
Since your backups are now working, it's likely ok.

How do i see my desktop and applications after a time machine restore?

What a disaster.   For reasons I won't bore anyone with, I had to end up reformatting my iMac hard drive (internal drive, I7) to get my machine working again. I have had a daily backup going (thank goodness) with my Drobo NAS drive using Time Machine. Yes, I know Apple doesn't technically support network drives with Time Machine, but anyone with a Drobo (and Data Robotics) will tell you it works great.   That's NOT the issue.
I flattened (reformatted) my machine and reinstalled Snow Leopard. I then connected to my Drobo drive with Time Machine, and searched the most recent backups and had it restore THE ENTIRE MACHINE. All applications, all documents, etc. Took about 14 hours.
I also created the same account (I think!) that I used before when I installed Snow Leopard.    However, when I reboot, my desktop looks like a fresh Snow Leopard desktop, and none of my applications or documents show anywhere. Yet, I am sure they are there, because when I went to later restore one file (Photoshop CS5), it said "this file already exists, do you want to copy over it?" I chose not to.
I feel like it must be some permissions or account thing, but for the life of me, i can't figure out where I went wrong.   It would be a HUGE inconvenience for me to truck this huge machine (and my network backup drive) into an Apple store to talk to one of their experts, so I'm hoping I can get this resolved here with your help.
Basically, I'm stumped. Anyone got any ideas?
thanks
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From your description, it sounds like you may have more serious issues than a simple permissions problemand that you are now dealing with a dysfunctional "Frankensystem." Nevertheless, it is usually worthwhile trying something relatively fast and simple before going on to more complicated solutions.
You have not indicated what remedies you may have already tried outside of the setup Assistant Tip, so I am assuming you have not yet tried anything.
I have never faced this precise problem before, but in other situations involving permissions issues, I have often had success doing the following:
1) Do a "Get Info" on the folder(s) with which you are experiencing issues. In your case, this is pretty well your entire restored drive, since the Applications folder exists at the root level. So go ahead and do a "Get Info" on your internal hard drive.
2) Click on the padlock icon in the lower right corner of the GI window and enter your admin password when prompted.
3) At the bottom of the window in the Sharing and Permissions section, ensure that your disk is set up this way:
system=Read & Write
admin=Read & Write
everyone=Read only
4) Click on the gear icon and choose "Apply to enclosed items" from the pull-down menu. Allow this to work through, which in the case of a whole drive may take some time.
5) Reboot the machine and log back into your home account. Hopefully, you can now see and access all the files that should be there.
If this doesn't work, your problem may lie in the fact that upon your reinstall of Snow Leopard, you created a home folder with the same name as the one you are trying to restore from your backup, thereby creating a big headache. You might have to repeat the entire reinstall/restore process, but this time creating an account with an entirely different name when you install Snow Leopard, and then deleting it after the restore from backup.
OR
If the total amount of data contained on your Drobo Time Machine backup is not yet prohibitively huge, I would suggest that the easiest and most foolproof solution might be to use a program such as SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the drive to a partition on a storage device of sufficient size directly attached to your iMac. You could then reformat your internal drive and repeat the complete restore process from the Snow Leopard install disk which should then yield normal results, i.e. a fully functional home account in which everything works as usual upon login.
This will eat up considerable time, but most significantly, it is machine time, not your time!
In my experience, the entire Time Machine process is a finely tuned one that does not take kindly to tinkering under the hood or straying from the blessed path, as you have just discovered.

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I am installing a larger harddrive on my Mac. Can I copy the Aperture library from my backup disk running Time Machine without loosing anything? I am getting help migrating everything else on to the new harddrive, but since copying the 350Gb Aperture library takes a lot of time, I am planning to do that part myself.

I found the following information on Time Machine help about restoring Aperture library from TM
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If you buy a new computer or use another system at a different location and want access to the Aperture library, you can install Aperture and then transfer the library from your vault (on your backup disk) to the other computer. If you experience equipment failure or other unexpected events, such as fire or weather-related damage to your equipment, you can easily restore the entire library to your new computer from a backup disk.
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Restoring Your Aperture System
If you buy a new computer or use another system at a different location and want access to the Aperture library, you can install Aperture and then transfer the library from your vault (on your backup disk) to the other computer. If you experience equipment failure or other unexpected events, such as fire or weather-related damage to your equipment, you can easily restore the entire library to your new computer from a backup disk.
HideTo restore the entire library from an external backup disk
If you buy a new computer or use another system at a different location and want access to the Aperture library, you can install Aperture and then transfer the library from your vault (on your backup disk) to the other computer. If you experience equipment failure or other unexpected events, such as fire or weather-related damage to your equipment, you can easily restore the entire library to your new computer from a backup disk.
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Choose File > Vault > Restore Library.The Restore Library dialog appears.
Choose the vault you want to use to restore your library from the Source Vault pop-up menu.If the vault doesn’t appear in the Source Vault pop-up menu, choose Select Source Vault from the Source Vault pop-up menu, navigate to the vaults location in the Select Source Vault dialog, then click Select.
Click Restore, then click Restore again.

IMac won't boot if external hard drive running Time Machine powered on

Upon rebooting, my iMac 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 4GB RAM, running OS X 10.5.4, locked up in a gray screen, the "gray screen of death."
At the recommendation of the Apple Tech Support rep, I turned off the iMac using the power button, and rebooted with my USB and Firewire devices removed.
The iMac boots fine with everything except my G-tech drive 1GB external hard drive running Time Machine with no partitions, attached using a Firewire 800 cable.
If the external hard drive is on, I get the interminable gray screen.
If I boot with the external hard drive powered off and then power it on after I'm at the Mac desktop, the disc image mounts normally on the desktop.
I've already repaired all disc permissions and it doesn't help.
My external hard drive has used 907 of the 931 GB true capacity. Supposedly, Time Machine removes the old files to make room for the new files.
Time Machine itself is running properly once I get my iMac booted in this peculiar way.

Raja,
Do a SMC reset perhaps even a couple of times and see if that helps. Also in System Preferences + Startup Disk make sure the internal HD is selected.
SMC RESET
Shut down the computer.
Unplug the computer's power cord and all peripherals.
Press and hold the power button for 5 seconds.
Release the power button.
Attach the computers power cable.
Press the power button to turn on the computer.
PRAM RESET
Shut down the computer.
Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Command, Option, P, and R. You will need to hold these keys down simultaneously in step 4.
Turn on the computer.
Press and hold the Command-Option-P-R keys. You must press this key combination before the gray screen appears.
Hold the keys down until the computer restarts and you hear the startup sound for the second time.
Release the keys.
Roger

IMac crashes when trying to run Time Machine to 500 gig Time Capsule

After working fine for several months, every time my iMac tries to run Time Machine to my 500 gig Time Capsule the mac crashes. The grey veil cascades down the screen and I have to hold the power button down for a while to restart. Any suggestions.

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this happens whenever i connect to time capsule.
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any ideas on how to remedy this, i know ita kernel panic, but i dont know what the fix is?????

Just got new macbook pro (13inch) and restored all data from old mac via time machine. Now whenAudio drop out for 3-4 secs every 10 - 15 secs!! What is going on and what can I do?

Just got brand new macbook pro (13inch) and restored all data from old mac via time machine. Now when I p/back a track in logic I get audio drop out for 3-4 secs every 10 - 15 secs!! What is going on and what can I do? Its the same version of logic and all other functions seem fine!

First of all, why did you say yes to Nero Back up before researching what it does with files already on the HDD? When I install Nero, the Back Up is the first thing I disable, it is a nagging pain, there are much better backup programs available. There are several file recovery programs out there to recover deleted files, that is, if that is what happened. Also, if you haven't overwritten the files, so you should be able to find them.

HT201250 Recover previous data on HHD after run Time machine

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