Macbook reboots in preparation stage when restoring with time capsule

I just replaced a hard drive from a disk crash. When I tried to restore from Time Capsule, I get to the stage where it's preparing - reading the size of the restoral categories - and the Macbook reboots before getting out of that stage. When I connect with Ethernet, it stays in that stage about 10 sec before rebooting. When I connect via wireless, it takes maybe 30 sec before reboot. When I connect to Time Capsule via a PC with Airport, it appears in good order (but suggests a new firmware update that seems just one release later). My Mac is about 14 months old. Could I have an OS incompatibility or a firmware issue (I haven't updated Time Capsule yet in fear of causing new issues)? Would bypassing this stage and going to Migration Utility be an optioin (I haven't tried this because it requires a lot of input on profiles such as DNS entries)?

I'm running my TC in 5ghz mode with my MBA. My original problem was the lack of signal strength coming from my AEBS caused the MBA to have a slow connection. There are a number of pipes in the wall that separates the two rooms where my MBA lives and the AEBS is.
So, I hard wired the TC to the AEBS and placed the TC in the room where my MBA lives most of the time. Now that the signal strength is really good I'm not having any issues.

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When doing a restore with Time Capsule, I get -8003 error; restoring nothing

Hi,
When doing a full restore with Time Capsule, I get -8003 error; restoring nothing. This happens with all recent backups. Also after doing a verify/repair of the TimeCapsule disk.
This is a dissaster for my originals (my Ableton Live projects). I am very dissapointed in TC and TM at this moment, because I trusted my backup system in combination with my MBP fully.
Please help?
Best regards, Tom

Hi Pondini,
Sorry for the late response, but the problem was something else and were two separate ones.
Somewhere along the way the TC backup couldn't find backup to the original TC volume, that's why I let TM backup towards my user volume named 'Tom'.
When I wanted to restore the root of my drive when selecting the diskname and 'Restore' in any point in time, this resulted in error -8003 in the activated TimeMachine.
Then I tried to do it via the recovery OS and even via the original OSX DVD. Both not enabling me to select the TC volume named 'Tom'. Then I remembered that I first backed-up onto the original 'TimeCapsule' volume/partition. When I copied the sparsefile to the 'TimeCapsule' partition, I was able to recover the entire disk using the recovery OS.
All my files are backup and I am a happy Mac user once again :-)
Thanks & Regards, Tom

How to connect my new MacBook Air to a LaCie hard disk with TIme Capsule backup from my old Imac? LaCie has USB 2.0, FireWire and eSata ports.

How can I connect my new MacBook Air to a LaCie hard disk with TIme Capsule backup from my old Imac? LaCie has USB 2.0, FireWire and eSata ports.

You can direct connect your MBA to the LaCie via USB 2 cable. If you have an Apple Airport Router you can USB connect the LaCie drive to the router and then use Airport Utility to configure it. Time Machine can access it either way.

New hard drive, restored with time capsule -- safari won't open

Just successfuly replaced my crashed 500gb hard drive with a 2TB drive. Used time capsule to restore the system (what a godsend), but now programs on the computer arent working. I tunes opens, then crashes, the app store just bounces down in the application bar for a while then stops, safari opens 80% of a page and then the window crashes and goes away. I get a feeling it has something to do with my recent repairs, but what? Any help would be appreciated. this is very frustrating.
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ok, sorry for being new at this, but I just tried "repair disk" and have an almost infinite array of permissions errors....so many that it crashes when doing the repair. Is this a problem with the drive itself, or the fact that i restored an entire system onto a new drive? Either way, is it fixable?

Restoring with Time Capsule.

I have been having some issues with my computer wanting to shut down with the grey screen lately. And I want to format and reinstall my OS and start fresh.. My questions are as follows: When I do this can I restore partial files back on to my machine like certain apps. And when or if I drag the apps from the application folders I will assume all the necessary files will copy over? Or should I try to install from the original disks?

Stvbrn wrote:
I have been having some issues with my computer wanting to shut down with the grey screen lately. And I want to format and reinstall my OS and start fresh.. My questions are as follows: When I do this can I restore partial files back on to my machine like certain apps. And when or if I drag the apps from the application folders I will assume all the necessary files will copy over? Or should I try to install from the original disks?
You have several choices:
A full system restore. That's everything, including OSX (unless you excluded important things). See #14 in Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of the +Time Machine+ forum).
After installing OSX, use +Setup Assistant+ to restore everything else, or parts of everything else. You can select or omit some broad categories of things, but you can't pick and choose within them. See the green box in #19 of the FAQ. Then download and install the "combo" update, to get back to 10.6.4 (unless that's the version on your Install disc). Info and download available at: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1048 Be sure to do a +Repair Permissions+ via Disk Utility (in your Applications/Utilities folder) afterwards.
Restore only selected items. To do that, you should first restore at least the user accounts from your backups via Setup Assistant, so the users on the Mac are the same ones as on the backups. Otherwise, they won't have permission to restore what looks like a different user's data.
Some apps can be restored that way, some can't. Complex apps, that came with special installers, put various files in assorted places. Unless you know what and where they all are, and restore them, the app won't work properly, if at all. In those cases, you'll need to reinstall them from the original discs.
And no, restoring apps doesn't restore data. Data is kept separately.
Try to avoid dragging anything from your backups. First, the permissions may not transfer properly; second, if you accidentally change, move, or delete anything there, you can hopelessly corrupt your backups. Use only the apps and procedures provided by Apple.

Help/strategy for restoring with time capsule

After some of the last Apple software updates, my computer has serious problems. Specifically, iTunes has a conflict with something else in the system. I've tried pretty much everything to fix this, The only thing that worked once (as directed by apple phone support) was to completely delete my system preference folder, but the next time I restarted the problem was back.
The only thing I can think to do now is to restore my system to how it was about 10 days ago, before the latest round of updates. However, I don't want to lose all the documents and emails that I've been working on since then. My thought is back up the "work" stuff like desktop, documents folder, etc onto another drive. Then use time machine to restore the comptuer to the past state, then copy the "work" folders back in to update them.
Is there an easier way to do this? If I restore to 10 days ago, I'm assuming Time machine loses the docs, email, etc from 5 days ago?
What are the advantages to wiping the drive first vs. a "soft" restore?
Any other advice? Thanks for your help.

I did a reinstall (back to 10.5.2), followed by a time-machine restore. Itunes is now back to 7.6.2, and Quicktime is at 7.4something. ITunes seems to work again.
While this solved my problem, it is an hugely time-consuming process. While it is more convenient to "set it and forget it", I think it would have actually been considerably faster to reinstall my apps from DVD and manually re-import docs and files from my home folder. Additionally, Time Machine will not fully restore my Leopard Mail messages. They appear in Time Machine, but neither the initial full restore or specific restores of just my inbox resulted in about 4000 messages not appearing. Fortunately I had manually archived my mailboxes before this process.
**I would not recommend relying on time machine as the only means of backing up important files**
**Also, do not expect to have your computer back to normal right away** Although I began the whole process of reinstallation and restoring Saturday morning, my computer is still about 24h away from being done with the initial Time Machine backup (ie. it won't be done until Tuesday). For desktops this would not be a problem, but for a laptop, I had to leave my computer at home today.

My macbook pro is connected to internet via my time capsule but my iPad and iPhone won't. it shows wifi connection to the time capsule but when i go on to the internet on the iPad or iPhone, it comes up with network error. can anyone help?

my macbook pro is connected to internet via my time capsule but my iPad and iPhone won't. it shows wifi connection to the time capsule but when i go on to the internet on the iPad or iPhone, it comes up with network error. can anyone help?

This can be caused by a number of issues.
Was everything working and then suddenly stopped??
Or is this a new clean setup and has never worked.
Do you have a cable modem which is not a router and the TC setup in bridge? That will cause it. The TC must be in router mode, ie dhcp and nat.
Check the IP the MBP gets including dns and gateway..
Then check the ipad/iphone.. post what IP dns and gateway (router in applespeak) they get.

I lost my iPhone5 data when restoring with my iphone4 contents, how to retrieve it?

I lost my iphone5 data when restoring with my iphone4 contents, how to retrieve it?

Unless you have a backup of the iPhone 5 data you lost, it's gone.

Problems with Full restore using Time Capsule backup???

For some reason my MacBook Pro recently crapped out completely, and I am trying to do a complete restore of the OS via a full backup I made with using Time Machine onto my Time Capsule disk, but I am running into some problems doing so and I was hoping someone might have some insight as to how I should deal with things at this point...
Here's where things get messy...
- I insert my Mac OS X 10.5 Installation DVD into my Macbook and boot from the drive, and I immediately choose the menu option to 'Restore from Time Capsule Backup'...
- After logging into my Time Capsule and then choosing the proper .sparseimage file to restore from, I click 'continue' and it brings me to the screen where I choose where I want to restore to (which in my case, is the one and only internal HD inside my Macbook Pro)
- The bottom of this window tells me that it's "Calculating space required to restore data..." but it simply hangs at the point with a spinning wheel indicating its still doing the calculating, but never actually presents me with the space required, not does it allow me to click continue to perform the restore?? I've allowed it over an hour to calculate the space required and it still just spins its status wheel...
This is where I am stuck at this point, and I have no idea how to get it to proceed to the next step to allow me to perform the restore??
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, as I will have no choice but to do a complete reinstall (including all apps and data) if I can't get the backup restored... Thanks!

I had the same problem when installing a new HDD in my Macbook. The solution I found was to reinstall Leopard onto the new HDD from the install CD, then reboot off the install CD once I had done this. I was then able to choose the 'Restore from Time Capsule' option and get my HDD to show up in the window.
A word of warning, once you have reinstalled Leopard and it starts asking you for all you info, as if for the first time to set up your computer, there is an option at the end of that process to restore your data from a Time Capsule backup. While this did restore all my files and so forth, it did not update any of the 'Apple' apps, i.e. iTunes, iPhoto, Quicktime, or the operating system itself, suggesting a 500Mb download via 'Software Update' to update the system. It was faster for me to reboot of the install CD and restore via the process outlines above. That way you get all your system updates included.
Not sure if this is the 'approved' method but it worked for me! The restore process took about 75 minutes for about 100Gb of data from my external backup drive connected to my Macbook via a Firewire cable.
Hope this helps!

Problems after doing full restore with Time Machine

If I reinstall Leopard and and do a complete restore with time Machine, I have to erase my Time Machine backup drive and do a complete TM backup from scratch because TM will not pick up where it left off doing incremental backups. It wants to start over like it's never done any backups at all. It's a pain because it take me 4 or 5 hours to back up 270 GB. I've had to do this twice so far because once I had a problem with my startup drive and just today I made an external hard drive with leopard and restored all my files via TM.
Is there anyway to get out of starting over from scratch when I do a full restore with TM ?

The following procedure works for me if your restore happens to be from the last backup that Time Machine completed. (I'm not sure if it would work just as well if you restore from an older point in the Time Machine history -- but it certainly should!):
After you complete the full restore (which will force a Restart when it completes), log in and then immediately go to System Preferences / Time Machine and Turn Off Time Machine to prevent any premature additional backups.
Now go to System Preferences / Spotlight / Privacy and drag the icons for all your hard drives (including your main hard drive and the Time Machine hard drive) from the Desktop into the Privacy list. This will stop Spotlight indexing of all these drives to speed things up for what follows. You will do the indexing later (see below).
If you have any sort of automatic virus protection active, disable it at this point to speed up what follows.
Then Restart again (to get things into a fresh state), and then immediately do a Repair Permissions for your main hard drive (using Applications / Utilities / Disk Utility). Be patient. This will take 30 minutes or more and the progress bar may not advance until the very end. Do not be alarmed when several hundred notifications come up, as most of them are minor tidying up items, but some are significant. For example, you will see the ownership get adjusted for every help file in every language for every Lexar printer the system knows about (minor). You will also see the permissions adjusted for the root directory of your main hard drive (significant).
And all of these permission and ownership repairs will happen EVEN THOUGH the files you backed up into your Time Machine may have had no such problems. They are, apparently, a result of the method that Time Machine uses to rebuild your file system during the restore.
When the permission repair eventually completes, Quit Disk Utility and Shut Down the computer.
Now reset the Parameter memory (PRAM). PRAM holds copies of certain system settings for rapid access. To do this, hold down the 4 keys Apple-Option-P-R continuously and press and release the power button. When you hear the SECOND startup chime, release those 4 keys. The system will continue to boot up normally. This makes sure the system's Parameter memory is in sync with the System Preferences resulting from the restore you just completed. It probably would have been anyway, but this makes sure. Among other things, this makes sure the system takes proper note of your "computer name" (System Preferences / Sharing) which is crucial to Time Machine's ability to recognize and use your previous backup database on the Time Machine hard drive.
Now log in and fire up Mail to let it automatically finish the restore of its mailboxes by importing the necessary mail lists. Quit Mail when it finishes.
If you have any other, application specific tasks to perform to complete the restore for any other applications, now is the time to do them.
Finally, go back into System Preferences / Spotlight / Privacy, select the line showing your main hard drive in the list, and click the "-" on the bottom to remove it from the list. Repeat this for every other hard drive EXCEPT for your Time Machine hard drive. Exit System Preferences. Spotlight will now begin to re-index those hard drives from scratch. Watch this by clicking on the Spotlight icon in the menu bar. Wait for indexing to finish.
Your restore is now at the point where you can let Time Machine do a new backup.
I suggest you Restart again to get things into a fresh state (not truly necessary, but it is what I do). Then go into System Preferences / Time Machine and, at long last, Turn On Time Machine again. Then do a Back Up Now (right click on the Time Machine icon in the dock and select Back Up Now from the pop up menu).
Because of the restore, Time Machine will now do a Deep Traversal of your entire file system looking for EVERYTHING that has changed compared to the last backup on its hard drive (rather than depending on the file system transaction logs as it normally does to make incremental backups happen much faster). The "Preparing" stage for this will take a long time -- about as long as a Repair Permissions pass in Disk Utility. Eventually Time Machine will start transferring files. This will be a backup of significant size because all the permissions repairs you did above, etc., count as changes as far as Time Machine is concerned, not to mention that certain portions of the file system are rebuilt during the restore. But it should be WELL SHORT of actually doing a complete backup of everything on your system. I.e., it is just a particularly large, but nevertheless incremental, backup added on to the previous stuff on your Time Machine disk.
Crucial to this is that Time Machine recognizes the prior database on its hard drive as applying to your computer. Thus the permissions repair and PRAM resetting steps above.
When that backup eventually completes, go into System Preferences / Spotlight and remove your Time Machine drive from the Privacy list. Exit System Preferences and wait for Spotlight to finish re-indexing your Time Machine drive.
Restart once again, just to get things into a fresh state, and then re-enable any antivirus "live protection" stuff you disabled above.
You are done.
From this point on, Time Machine should do "normal" incremental backups, and the previous history of Time Machine backups should be accessible and used by Time Machine just as before.
--Bob
Message was edited by: BobP1776

MacBook Lost Connection With Time Capsule, Unable to reconnect

On my first attempt installing time capsule and setting up airport was ok. Then one day, I completely lost the connection. Now my MAcBook can not find time capsule or airport.
I have tried the following:
1. Resetting the Arris modem and the time capsule.
2. Unplugging and disconnecting everything, re-install the Time Capsule Set up disk.
3. Updated software on mac website.
Still., the light continues to blink amber, when I have my computer scan it doesn't find anything. It will not allow me to choose manual setup. This is very frustrating. Please help. I'm about to return it. I'm wasting a lot of time on something that should work.

Here is the setup I use to configure my Time Capsule. Haven't had a problem with it since day one - even through multiple reconfigures for testing purposes.
*_How Do I Setup Up My Time Capsule As My Only Router?_*
Naturally, the possible combinations of modems / routers / Airport Devices / etc. cannot be accounted for in one set of instructions. However, if you are using your Time Capsule as your only router, and not attempting to add it to an existing network then the following instructions should be helpful:
*Verify Cabling*
Phone line --> phone jack on your ISPs modem.
Next, attach an ethernet cable between your ISPs modem --> and the WAN port on the Time Capsule (that’s the little round ‘wheel’ symbol), NOT to one of the LAN ports <•••>.
There should be no other devices between your ISPs’ modem and the Time Capsule.
*Reset Time Capsule*
First, if previous attempts to configure the Airport device have failed, it’s a good idea to reset it following steps outlined in this KB article:
[http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1300]
Make sure you hold in the reset switch for a good 10 seconds, then release.
*Reboot ISPs’ Modem & Time Capsule*
Make sure that any time you disconnect and reattach the TC (or any wireless router) to your ISPs modem, that you cycle the modem's power off and on. Sometimes it doesn't forward the IP address assigned by your ISP unless it is rebooted.
If you are using the Time Capsule as your only router then power down your ISPs modem.
Unplug the TC from the wall outlet.
Wait 10-15 seconds.
Next turn your modem back on first. Let it initialize and acquire an IP address (about 30-60 seconds).
Plug in the TC back in again.
After it has restarted (30-60 seconds), the amber light will slowly flash.
*Configure Airport Utility*
Next, launch Airport Utility.
Highlight the device on the left and click “Continue”.
You may be asked if you want to “Reset” or “Restore” one of the configuration profiles. Select “Reset”, and click “OK”.
Name your Time Capsule. Keep it short and simple. Use only letters & number, no special characters.
Enter the password twice and check “Remember this password in my keychain”. Avoid using a “different password to secure disks” for now.
Click “Continue”.
Airport Utility may “discover existing wireless networks”. If the Time Capsule is your only router, then choose “I don’t have a wireless network…”, and click “Continue”.
Name the new network. Keep it short and simple. Use only letters & number, no special characters.
Enter a password for your new network twice, check “Remember this password in my keychain”, and click “Continue”.
Select “Share a single IP address…” and click “Continue”.
If you are presented with a dialogue box warning you of a blinking amber light, click “Ignore”.
At “Select how you connect to the internet” choose the type of service. (Most will choose “I use a DSL or cable modem with a static IP address or DHCP”.)
Click “Continue”.
For “Configure IPv4” choose “Using DHCP”.
Enter the DNS server numbers provided by your ISP. If you don’t know what they are, many have had success using the ones provided by OpenDNS:
208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220
For “Domain Name” enter what is provided by your ISP. (i.e. dslextreme.com)
For “DHCP Client ID” enter what is provided by your ISP. (i.e. dslextreme)
Click “Continue”.
Review the Summary and then click “Update.”
If you are presented with +“This device and its network services will be temporarily unavailable”+ click “Continue”.
At “Congratulations! Your Time Capsule is configured…” click “Done”.
NOTE: If, after the Time Capsule restarts, you are present with “Problem 1 of 1: Internet Connection”, click “Continue” and then “Ignore”.
Select “Update my Time Capsule with these settings”, and click “Update”.
When the Time Capsule reappears, click “Manual Setup”.
Select “Wireless” in the toolbar.
Click the “Internet Connection” tab. Here you may see an IP address that looks similar to this, “169.254.96.123”.
Click the “Renew DHCP Lease” button.
The number beside “IP address” should refresh in a few moments.
If the “Update” button in the lower right becomes active, then click it.
*Join the New Network*
Finally, go up to the Airport menu. Give Airport a few moments to scan for available networks. When your new network appears, select it from the list.
At “Mac OS X wants to use your confidential information…” click “Always Allow”.
You should now be connected to the internet.
Cheers!

Restoring with Time Machine help!!!

I have searched for many hours for an answer to my problem to no avail. I have seen multiple discussions on here about this issue, but none seem quiet the same.
I use an Intel iMac, 500GB, Snow leopard, and all the most current updates.
While trying to cmd+q Safari from the ESPN fantasy page I received the spinning rainbow ball. I gave it about ten minutes to quit and nothing. I tried to key a force quit and nothing. So I then did a hard reset pressing the power button. Once it restarted the screen froze on the grey startup and seconds later gave me the Folder with a question mark icon flashing. I found the Snow Leopard install disc and put it in to restart. I restarted and held "c" while doing so.
Mac OS X Installer appears and I follow it to a point where I can select >utilities and select disk utility or restart from back up.
I first tried to use my Time Machine backups that are stored on a Lacie 1TB external, but I receive a message that "this disk does have enough space." I tried selecting all the way back a year ago when I started using it to restore. No luck.
Next I tried going to the >utilities >disk utility selection and it only shows the install cd and a hard disk labeled "Media" but in the Total cpacity: it reads 0 Bytes. I don't know where to go from there.
Now I am am deleting the back ups from August 1, 2010 and before to try and free up space and attempt a restore with Time Machine.
Does anyone have any ideas or solutions or anything. I have 120GB of music, CS5, Logic Pro 9, Office, and many other programs all at risk. Yes, I paid for all of them. I just don't have time to spend installing it all again, especially when some of my work depends on them.
Tragic, huh!
Thank you
Chuck

CSmith615 wrote:
Okay, so I have mentioned this twice, in both post that I have written, the hard drive is not showing in the disk utilities,
Yes, I understand you can't see the +*internal HD.+* I advised you to do a +*repair disk+* on your backups.
Tell me that there is nothing I could have done, that it was on the verge of crashing since it was probably under a lot of stress.
Correct; other than dropping your Mac or having it zapped by a power surge, you didn't break the internal HD.
I have already erased some of the backups from August 1 2010 and before. I still have from this past sunday, 21st until August 2nd. Please elaborate how it will corrupt the backups. I plugged the external into my macbook pro and trashed those backups mentioned before.
The message you were getting was that there wasn't enough space on the internal (since it showed zero), not the backups.
If you did that via the Finder or Terminal, they may be corrupted.
Unfortunately, Apple doesn't do a very good job of warning folks not to do that.
You shouldn't have to delete things there, since Time Machine will do it automatically when the disk gets full. But if you want or need to, you can do it via Time Machine without harm. See #12 in [Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions|http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/FAQ.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum).
So, repair them per #A5 in [Time Machine - Troubleshooting|http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/Troubleshooting.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum). If they're ok, or can be repaired, your best bet when you get your Mac back is to do a full system restore, per #14 in the FAQ.

My start up disc is full i have a macbook air, i back everuthing up with time capsule and have movies all my music libraries and photos onto that too so as i have free space, but my max still says my startup disc is full with "other"

my start up disc is full i have a macbook air, i back everuthing up with time capsule and have movies all my music libraries and photos onto that too so as i have free space, but my max still says my startup disc is full with "other"

First, empty the Trash if you haven't already done so. Then reboot. That will temporarily free up some space.
According to Apple documentation, you need at least 9 GB of available space on the startup volume (as shown in the Finder Info window) for normal operation. You also need enough space left over to allow for growth of your data. There is little or no performance advantage to having more available space than the minimum Apple recommends. Available storage space that you'll never use is wasted space.
If you're using Time Machine to back up a portable Mac, some of the available space will be used to make local snapshots, which are backup copies of files you've recently deleted. The space occupied by local snapshots is reported as available by the Finder, and should be considered as such. In the Storage display of System Information, local snapshots are shown as "Backups." The snapshots are automatically deleted when they expire or when free space falls below a certain level. You ordinarily don't need to, and should not, delete local snapshots yourself.
To locate large files, you can use Spotlight as described here. That method may not find large folders that contain a lot of small files.
You can also use a tool such as OmniDiskSweeper (ODS) to explore your volume and find out what's taking up the space. You can delete files with it, but don't do that unless you're sure that you know what you're deleting and that all data is safely backed up. That means you have multiple backups, not just one.
Proceed further only if the problem hasn't been solved.
ODS can't see the whole filesystem when you run it just by double-clicking; it only sees files that you have permission to read. To see everything, you have to run it as root.
Back up all data now.
Install ODS in the Applications folder as usual.
Triple-click the line of text below to select it, then copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C):sudo /Applications/OmniDiskSweeper.app/Contents/MacOS/OmniDiskSweeper
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Paste into the Terminal window (command-V). You'll be prompted for your login password, which won't be displayed when you type it. You may get a one-time warning not to screw up. If you see a message that your username "is not in the sudoers file," then you're not logged in as an administrator.
I don't recommend that you make a habit of doing this. Don't delete anything while running ODS as root. If something needs to be deleted, make sure you know what it is and how it got there, and then delete it by other, safer, means.
When you're done with ODS, quit it and also quit Terminal.

TS3423 Mac book pro stops responding after Maverick OS restart. Currently have a circle with a line through it after 20+ hours. Tried to shut it down and use the Time Machine to restore but no response. How can I restore with Time Machine if it will not s

Mac book pro stops responding after Maverick OS restart. Currently have a circle with a line through it after 20+ hours. Tried to shut it down and use the Time Machine to restore but no response. How can I restore with Time Machine if it will not start?

sonjadg,
you can purchase a replacement pair of grey installation DVDs for your MacBook Pro from either Apple or iFixit. If Startup Manager is only showing an OS X Installer volume, then it sounds like the Mavericks installer had a problem midway through its installation process. To fix this, you’re going to need to erase your internal disk and reïnstall your original version of OS X from the grey Mac OS X Install DVD, use Software Update to get it back to 10.6.8 (presuming that your MacBook Pro originally came with Snow Leopard), and then restore from Time Machine.

HT201250 when restoring a time machine backup to a new computer, does it affect the new operating system on the new computer

when restoring a time machine backup to a new computer, does it affect the new operating system on the new computer?

That depends on how you do it.
By far the best, easiest, most reliable method is to use Setup Assistant when your shiny new Mac first starts up, to transfer your apps, users, data, etc. That doesn't disturb either the OS or basic Apple apps that came with the new Mac. See Using Setup Assistant on Mountain Lion or Lion.
There is a facility to restore an entire system from Time Machine backups, including the version of OSX on the backup, but that's for use when your internal HD has been erased or replaced only. It's not a good idea to restore the full backup of one Mac to a different one. Depending on the circumstances, the installer may not allow it. Even if it does, the Mac may not start up, or may kernel panic, or not work properly.

Macbook reboots in preparation stage when restoring with time capsule

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