Need help restoring data to new mac from time capsule

I received a new Macbook Air today. We have a time capsule where my old Mac was backed up. How do I restore my old data (I know they told me how to do it, but I forgot. And also, I'm not sure I want to restore everything, but I do want my itunes and I don't have my itouch at the moment. Can anyone help? Thank you!

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I need help restoring data from my time machine.

1) On the time machine, where do I find the TRASH file that is located on the dock in my desktop? I'd like to restore that to a prior date but can't find it.
2) I DID A VERY BAD THING & need help to get back to where I was before. I wanted to delete files that were taking up lots of space. My OTHER section was using 160G. I downloaded OmniDiskSweep and found that 120G was being used by my virtual machine (I run Quicken in Windows, through VMware). I started to delete files that were called Snapshots assuming these were the snapshots that the program regularly takes of my files. Apparently they were not. I also deleted the program Windows XP Professional because that was never used. When I try to open VM or quicken program, it says it is missing a particular snapshot, i.e. Snapshot 11104. I deleted about 20 of these. I left all the other files that said Windows XP Home Edition. But now it shows that I only have the Professional Edition, even though that's what I deleted. I'm trying to restore from Time Machine and it looks like the information is not there - I've tried various different backups and nothing seems to have the information I need. The earliest back up I have is from 5/7 when I started time machine on a new external 1TB HD. Would that have the information I need since it's the very first back up? Please Help.

I am assuming it's real data because it's taking up storage on my HD. It falls in the category "other" and the total of this section is 160G. Here is a snapshot of the virtual machine.
I also took a shot of the VM snapshots & it tells how much space is being taken up by the snapshots.
I've now changed the number of snapshots taken down to 12 (didn't know I had this option) & I can delete alot of the 21 snapshots that have already been saved. I have no idea how much of the HD was set aside for the VM because someone else installed it for me 5 years ago. I've had enough problems with it over the years that I've wanted to switch to Quicken for Mac or find another financial program to use. I've upgraded the VM 2x over the years, but didn't want to spend $100 for Version 5. I understand the concept of a VM but that's about all.
I did do the disk cleanup in Windows on the C drive. I deleted 700 MB of temporary files and then compressed 4G of data down to 2G. While the cleanup was progressing it said that the C drive was 30.99G and 78% of it was free. That just doesn't make sense to me. It recommended a defrag, so I did that also.
I'm pretty sure it's real data because I recently had to switch from a 320G external HD for TM, to a 1T HD. One TM backup was over 300G which I found to be excessive because I basically use my computer for mail, some word processing, and my financial data.
Thanks again for all your help. I really appreciate it.

Need help restoring data

I have several disparate Windows 2003-based database with limited storage and memory resources. Each database is running in NOARCHIVE mode. I have a need to backup the database prior to upgrades. If errors occur, I'd like to be able to restore the database to its previous state.
However, each time I perform a restore/recover, I see the updated data in all tables rather than the original data from the backup. Am I under the false impression that RMAN can restore data within the same database? Any help is appreciated.
I'll attach the scripts that made use of see if there is anything that I am missing.
CREATING A BACKUP
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3.     RMAN>shutdown immediate;
4.     RMAN>startup mount;
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1.     rman nocatalog
2.     RMAN> connect target sys@ncr1
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Rman will always try to recover the DB to the point of failure unless otherwise specified. If the changes made by you is available in the online logs(since your DB is running in noarchivelog), it will always apply that changes too while recovering.
if you execute the restore commands shown by you, RMAN will restore the datafiles (if any file is missing and backup is available), apply the changes (if available in the logs) and open it..
Rman is more suited for productin DB s where DB is running most of the time and in archivelog mode. In your scenario, I think, a cold backup is suited...
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Restoring data onto new blackberry from Blackberry Protect, last restore was from my stolen Blackberry Style 9670

Help! My Blackberry Style 9670 (BB OS 6) was stolen.
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Possible to restore iTunes safely to a new mac (from time machine backup) without using setup/migration assistant?

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I have just acquired a new MacBook which I want to set up completely fresh. The only data I really need to restore/copy to it, besides a few document folders, is the iTunes library from my existing iMac. The iTunes library has been backed up using time machine on the iMac (using a portable drive). I’ve heard it might be possible for me to plug the time machine backup into the new MacBook and then option-click the time machine icon in order to 'browse other backup disks' and then restore iTunes. Would this work and would all my devices still sync with iTunes? I’m just a bit nervous because apple has migration assistant and setup assistant for doing this sort of thing - I just really don’t want to use them because the only thing I want on my new MacBook from the whole of the time machine backup is literally the iTunes library. I don’t want to start restoring user accounts which you must do with the assistants.
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Thank you ever so much for the replies. Just one thing: the link you provided seems to discuss restoring individual items on the computer for which a backup has been made. On my macbook I can't click "enter time machine" which I'm guessing is because the time machine backup is for my old iMac (hence my comment about control clicking the menu bar).

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Apple does not make a device suitable directly to do what you want.
There are NAS devices from the big three that provide proper raid disks, mirrored backup, rsync and itunes servers.. although the itunes may not do what you need. Netgear Synology Qnap.
But the solution often adopted by Apple fanbois.. is to use a Mac Mini as a media centre. You don't need a brand new one.. even a 2ghz C2D from a few years ago will work well enough.. you need to add disk capacity via firewire.. would be preferred as it is much faster than USB.

Restore system to new laptop from Time machine backup???

Hi I understand from reading a number of discussion that you can do a full system restore to a new HD (on the same laptop). If I upgrade my laptop am I able to 'transfer'/restore the whole system from a Time Machine backup to the new laptop? Meaning all, setting, apps, files etc etc? Is there a way to do this?

Yes indeed. It's about as close to painless as possible.
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Hi, I have used Time Capsule to back up my Aperture library. Today I deleted a project by mistake. I am unable to open the aperture project library from yesterdays backup to find my lost project. I have to copy the entire library and there is not room on my harddrive. It does not restore it - only offers to copy the entire 138 Gig library of pictures. If I make room and copy same 118 Gig library can any one advise how one opens it, accesses it, places it etc so that Aperture will open this previous complete version as opposed to the current version (in which the project is deleted?)
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I'm having problems with old MBP. When I try to transfer MBP to MBP, the old machine crashes.
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Hello,
I am in need of urgent help.
I had saved some really important information in the memos of my blackberry curve 8520. After that I changed my phone to a non-blackberry phone. but I still had the old phone but it was kept off most of the time. I had backups from June 13, 2013. very recently I wiped the phone. (Very big mistake) Now I am in need of that information that I had saved in the memos. Now when I visit the blackberry protect website through my laptop it shows that the back up is there with 15 memos and many other things. but when I open the app of blackberry protect on my phone it shows that there are no previous versions of backup available to restore.
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Hello,
Please check very very very very (did I say that enough?) carefully that you are using the exact same BBID credentials on your new BB that you are logging into via PC.
If they are not the same, then that explains why it cannot present you with those backups on the device...they are associated to a different BBID than you are using on your BB now. To change your BB over to the BBID that contains the backups you require, you must WIPE the BB:
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KB31489 BlackBerry Protect for BlackBerry smartphones does not display any backup files to restore
Then again, if you are using the exact same BBID on both the device as well as via PC/browser, then the method discussed in KB31489 may already have been done incorrectly, wiping out those prior backups (and there is no way to retrieve them).
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Old computer crashed, restored data to new computer from Carbonite, how do I restore bookmarks?rt my bookmarks from carbonite?

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Need help on buying a new mac or saving an old one

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