HT4859 Help! How to restore files?

I was playing with this find iPhone app and hit lost mode and erase phone then suddenly my phone re started and everything on phone is completely washed out. Is there any way that I can recover or restore all the file from my phone?

Syncing doesn't restore messages, restoring to your backup does. If you have any data on your phone that is not in your backup you'll need to save this first as restoring from backup reverts all settings and data to those contained in the backup. Then, if you backup is on your computer you connect your phone to iTunes, right-clidk on the name of it on the left side and select Restore from Backup. If it is in iCloud you have to erase the phone to restore from it. To do this go to Settings>General>Reset and tap Erase all Content and Settings. You will then go back through the setup screens on your phone as you did when it was new. When given the option, choose Restore from iCloud Backup (see image below). Make sure you phone is connected to wifi and your charger as this will take some time to finish.

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Help! Anyone know how to restore files on tiger? I lost my WHOLE library of photos! And I don't have back ups. :'(
I was running short of disk space, so I decided to clean up some unnecessary files on my disk. I once imported all my photos from iPhoto to Aperture. Since I usually use iPhoto, I decided to delete all the photos from Aperture library. But the next time when I opened my iPhoto, I found the photos in iPhoto library were also deleted!!! Now there are only thumbnails of all the photos!
Please! Anyone know how to restore the photos on Tiger? I can't afford to lose all my photos. :'(

Try Subrosasoft's FileSalvage.
If that doesn't work try Prosoft Data Rescue II
If that doesn't work, take it to a professional such as http://www.drivesavers.com/
And in the future always keep backing up your data as my FAQ* explains:
http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html
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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.
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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

So now i might ned u all help, currently im using ipad and i get some news abt ios 6.1 and im interested abt it so i updated wif my Ipad (ver. ios 5) and i checked some web said ipad1 cnt update to ios6 so i might ned u all help how to restore bck to ios5

so now i might ned u all help, currently im using ipad and i get some news abt ios 6.1 and im interested abt it so i updated wif my Ipad (ver. ios 5) and i checked some web said ipad1 cnt update to ios6 so i might ned help how to restore bck to ios5 as normal be4

If it's showing the connect to iTunes screen then you will need to do that.
But Apple don't provide any method to update the first gen iPad to iOS 5 (nor do they support downgrading the iOS version).

Canvio DTD21B - how to restore FIles and Folders on a different system

Hi I'm helping my friend. We backed up her old laptop's hard drive to a new Canvio 1Texternal hard drive, but backed up the whole system. The system is now defunct. It ran Win 7. This is three weeks later and we have a new 17" Toshiba laptop running WIN 8.1. I can't seem to find a way to restore just her FIles and Folders to the new system. I do not want to overwrite the Win 8.1 operating system so do not want to do a full restore. Her Files and FOlders are important to her so I would appreciate your adice as to how to restore just that data. I can't find anything in HELP or on this forum that addresses this issue.
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try revealing all hidden files in Finder before using TM
run this in terminal
*defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles True*
*killall Finder*
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HT1766 please help...we updated ipod2 4.1 to IOS 5.1 at itunes...after it was finished only the contacts were restored...not the music & videos...we found the backed up data in the pc(windows 7)after entering %appdata%..pls help how to restore..thanks!God

please help...we updated ipod2 4.1 to IOS 5.1 at itunes...after it was finished only the contacts were restored...not the music & videos...iwe found the backed up data in the pc(windows 7)after entering %appdata%..pls help on how to restore...we will appreciate it very much....thanks! God bless!

The iPod backup that iTunes makes does not include synced media like app, music and videos. Thus, you wll have to resync those back to your iPod.
If necessary you can redownload iTunes purchases by:
Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store

How to restore files to crashed iMac without Time Machine.

My iMac crashed and I am about to try and recover it with the Recovery partition. A month ago a pet somehow knocked my Time Machine disk off my desk and I hadn't replaced it. I have my files back up via BackBlaze as well, but don't know how I am going to incorporate (restore) those files in the proper places later.
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Reinstalling OS X is easy. But unless you have a restorable backup of your files there's little you can do to restore them. Read your BackBlaze documentation to find out how you restore a backup made with it.
Install or Reinstall Mavericks, Mountain Lion, or Lion from Scratch
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OS X Mavericks- Erase and reinstall OS X
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OS X Lion- Erase and reinstall Mac OS X
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because it is three times faster than wireless.

HT201250 How to Restore files on timemachine to windows pc?

How to restore folders or files to a windows pc?

Yes we can.
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Could get all incremental backups since the last full backup in timemachine.
Could not get the files in this full back up. But was not necessary for me.

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Hi all,
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I could swear that the restore button was once there. Or am I confusing OS X with XP?
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If you press COMMAND-Z (Undo) immediately after placing a file into the Trash, then the file will be returned to its original location. However, the undo function is only applicable to the item most immediately placed in the Trash, otherwise it will not work, nor will it work for items placed there previously. In effect it's a one-time deal.
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Help - how to restore playlists that have not been backed-up...

hi All - some help required please!
my itunes library has been getting bigger and bigger so a few days ago I decided to transfer all my itunes media to an external drive to free up space on my internal drive... So far so good, all 106gb of the music and movies have transferred across and iTunes can find it all etc.
MY PROBLEM:
the problem is that now all my playlists have gone, ie they are still shown in iTunes down the left side, but they are empty
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Buy a 3rd-party ipod manager that supports your model of ipod and also supports getting playlists off of it. There is no transferring of playlists from ipod to itunes using itunes itself.
Here is a good place to start your research on that:
http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/copying-music-from-ipod-to-co mputer/P2/
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Hello
I did a Factory Image reset recently on my Windows 8.1 PC. I did a backup to an external drive of all my personal files before I did the Factory Image reset.
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thank you!

alrprairie wrote:
Hello
I did a Factory Image reset recently on my Windows 8.1 PC. I did a backup to an external drive of all my personal files before I did the Factory Image reset.
This backup is listed on the external hard drive as: "Backup files 2014-07-06"
THe properties of this is 322 GB -   765 files   - 17 folders.
THis cannot be all my files UNLESS they were compressed.
The reason i say this is that also on my extrenal hard drive is "Filehistory"
THe properties on FileHistory are: 1.45 TB   - 59,580 files - 765 folders.
I need to restore these files back to my C: drive
I am not confident that the Filehistory has all my files, BUT, since the Backup files 2014-07-06 is so much smaller
than my Filehistory , I do not know what to think.
I have attempted to restore the files from the Backup files 2014-07-06 but get errors that I do not have security clearance. I am the only user on this PC.
I am not very confident that everything is contained on the "FileHistroy" , but I don't really know.
Does anyone have experience with "Backup files' and "Filehistory" that can help me?
thank you!
Hello,
The backup file must have become inaccessible. I am not sure about the error message but it can because of virus infection in your PC that your files must have got damaged. If you are not able to restore backup file from File History, tehn you may try backup recvery software to recover data from it. Try this Windows backup recovery sofwtare - http://goo.gl/kYPP6J
It might help you.
Thanks.

How to restore files from Carbonite

My computer crashed and I had to reinstall my software. I previously had not backed things up on Mozbackup, but Carbonite backed my files up. now, can you tell me the procedure to restore my addresses and other files from carbonite's backup?

You'll need to restore the Thunderbird profile from the backup.
Check this article for more information on the profile location for MacOS.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Thunderbird#Mac_OS_X
How exactly this is done with Carbonite I have no idea.

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I started using Adobe Reader for iOS to annote and comment pdf files. I used the Adobe Reader for Mac OS to upload the files to the Acrobat.com cloud.
Opening the files on iPad worked pretty straight forward and I started editing the pdf right away. When opening the pdf again a couple of days later on iPad, the app downloaded the pdf again in an older version with a couple of annotations present, but a couple of the more recent missing. This is a very disturbing behaviour since I cannot understand why it would sync an older version of the pdf from the cloud over the newer one. Luckily, this was no very important edit, but I will be very hesitant to use this feature in the future if there is a likelyhood for this happening again. Is there any possibility to recover the file with the original edits from the iPad?
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AnAppleADay,
I personally agree that having two separate Adobe cloud storage services (Acrobat.com and Creative Cloud) is confusing and undesirable. However, I am not able to speculate on Adobe products or services in future releases.
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I suspect that your problem is related to changes not being saved to Acrobat.com properly (not about syncing to an older version). When you make a lot of changes to a PDF document (e.g adding annotations or filling out forms), I'd recommend closing the modified PDF document occasionally, which forces Adobe Reader to save the changes to Acrobat.com. You will have less chance of losing changes due to unexpected problems or defects in Adobe Reader.
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