My hard drive crashed. I have my time machine backup. How do i recover all my data?

I have an external hardrive that i backed my Mac up on for just this kind of incident.  I have 30 Gigs of music and many documents that i would like to have back.  When i go into time machine, it acts as if it has transferred the data but its not in my itunes, or iphoto.  HELP!!

Hi.
There are two ways.
1. restore her user account to your Mac, that way she can log on with her account and use it like she did her iMac
2. connect Time Machine, navigate to the latest backup, user folder, pictures and copy the iPhone Library to your desktop. Rename the library to "wife name iPhoto Libary" and copy it into your pictures folder inside your user folder. Now when you start iPhoto and go to the file menu you can switch to her library.
Good luck

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