Load applications using time machine
Hi
I have two imacs on an ethernet network. This morning one of them just had a flashing folder in the middle of the screen with a question mark in it. I have an old clone of the system on an external hard drive that is partitioned with the clone on one partition and time machine on the other. I managed to boot the mac from the external hard drive. I cannot see in internal hard drive on the desk top but if I go to disk utilities. I can see it in the side window named media. Do you thing the internal is broken and if so will I be able to save myself time loading on all my applications by using time machine to restore the system back to what it was before and not have to find all the disks and updates again. Also can time machine be used as a boot disk to start a broken mac
Thanks
Chris
Christopher Steele wrote:
Hi
Thanks for your help, It appears that my hard disk has had it and a repairer is going to put me a new one in. He will put a basic system on the machine 10.5.2 I think. When I get the machine home can I just go restore and time machine will put all my applications emails etc. back on to the machine
Yes. He doesn't really have to install OSX, but no doubt will, just to be sure it's working.
do I have to use my startup disk to reload the system myself before I can get these back on the machine.
You do have to use the Install disc, but you don't install OSX from it. You use the Installer utility on it to restore your entire system from the backups (assuming you didn't omit anything important). That's all laid out in #14 of the FAQ Tip.
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Repairing the Hard Drive and Permissions
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/Users/yourusername/Library/Preferences
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From reading similar threads I thought that restoring the login.keychain file would restore secure notes, but this didn't happen. Does anyone have a suggestion?
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http://www.macworld.com/article/161156/2011/07/view_library_folder_in_lion.html
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