Lost in Time Machine

Document completely lost in Time Machine.
Any other way to recover? Trash does not have document

A few more details would be helpful. When was the document created and deleted in relation to when your backups happen in Time Machine? Did you move the document so it might be in a different location in Time Machine?
There are programs and services that can recover lost files, but the more you use the machine after having deleted a file, the less likely you are to be able to recover it. I've never used them, but products like FileSalvage from SubRosa and DataRescue from Prosoft Engineering might be able to get the file back.

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So i bought a hard disk and i thought it might be better add a password. Now guess what i lost it. so how can i get my password back ? thank you
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If you mean that you encrypted your Time Machine backup, there's no way to recover the password. You must not have saved it to your keychain, or you wouldn't need to ask the question. Erase the drive and start over.

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Dear Aperture Community,
I recently purchased a new iMac and used a time machine backup of my old iMac to move my files over to the new Mac. All seemed to work well, and I have been using my new iMac happily for a couple of weeks.
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thanks for the reply Frank:
Masters. I do not know. I left it as the default. I assume that means managed?
Error message was the LONG error code with the jist of it being related to what sounds like a PLUGIN error. I don't have the EXACT coding right now as I am not home. I've googled the code +/- other stuff on it and according to discussions here and elsewhere (albeit all archived), it looks like it was related to my plugins.
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Thomas - You are awesome - THANK YOU!
I did exactly what you said (CAN"T believe an Apple Genius did not know this) and I think all of my events got restored.
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Also, the time setting must be wrong b/c I have events from 2008 showing up in 2012 - same day and time as the old sessoin - just out dated.    Do I need to manually change all of this?   Should I delete the Calendars folder again and try again?
Also, I read some where about deleting a iCal cache file.   Do I need to do this?
I TRULY appreciate you taking the time to help people in this forum.   I have spent hours the past two days trying to figure this out.   Plus, now I need to figure out about upgrading my Office for Mac b/c I didn't realize I lost Office 2004 when upgrading to Lion.
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Is there a way of retrieving draft emails i've lost though time machine back up?

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I am currently running Time Machine back up, which works fine. However for stupid reason the other day i managed to delete all my draft emails, which i kind of use as a note pad for things that i am working on.
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strangely i have gone and unanswered my own question, it was simple and brilliant too.
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Interesting, since it is the control key that works on my Mac....not option or alt.
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TM questions are best ask in the TM forum
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Thanks for posting. I have my library on an external drive and it spins processing before it crashes. I have tried everything. I think it believes some images are corrupted but who knows.
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Terence, Thanks for you response.
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I have a similar problem.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/25676099#25676099
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