Open Time Machine backup in XP?

hi guys,
I have a macbook pro and a XP PC. If i make a backup with time machine on my external HD and then plug it into my PC. Can i open the files Time Machine made?
Thanks,
cya

I have the same problem, with time machine trashing my backup.backupdb folder. Were you ever able to resolve your problem M L D?

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Opening Time Machine Backup in Windows

Hi,
My MacBook recently had a harddrive failure for the second time in a year. I think I have everything backed up from it through a Time Machine external harddrive, although after reading some of the posts on iTunes and iPhoto backups I'm not so sure. I have my external harddrive connected to a windows laptop through macdrive. Where do I look to find the iPhoto and iTunes backups? I can't seem to find them in the file structure. Is there a way to do this withough connecting the harddrive to another macintosh running Leopard? I also have an older G5 running 10.3.
Thank you!
Thank you.

If you're going to tinker, make a backup of the folder, first. However, read through and find out why that might not work on windows, even with MacDrive.
The files are in the same place in the directory structure as they are on the disk. However, I'm not sure what you will see with the PC. Inside the main backup folder there are dated incremental backup folders. There is an alias to the "Latest" backup folder, or you can go to the latest dated folder. If you dig into that folder, you'll find your HD file structure.
However, if a file has not changed, a hard link is created in the incremental backup folder to the original. Nothing actually exists there--the file system just creates a pointer in its directory that says "pretend like this original file is here." I don't know how MacDrive/Windows will interpret those links. If it cannot resolve the hard links, then you would have to wade through each of these folders to recover any incremental changes.
If you damage the backup while tinkering with it in Windows, you may not be able to recover it with TM.
After you replace the Hard Drive, you can use the Installer disk to recover your TM backup to the new drive.

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I just got a new MBA and want to restore some apps from my MB pro that has a larger disk drive than my new one.
So I don't want to restore everything as it will not fit on the new computer.
Can I restore some of my apps and folders from a previous MBP backup ?

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Another way would be to restore your files from the MacBook Pro backup manually. To do it, you need these steps > http://pondini.org/TM/E3.html

Had a recent crash on my macbook, was previously using OS 10.6 I think. Restored from recent Time Machine backup and updated to OS 10.8.2 and now I cannot open Logic Pro 9. I get a 'No entry' Icon and a not supported on this type of Mac message. I cannot

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All of my files are stored in a separate hard drive with only the actual app having been on my Macbook. Should I just reinstall?

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To run Mouitain Lion you need to update Logic.
For the updaters to work the Logic application must be:
a) Within the Applications folder, and not in any sub-folder
b) Named "Logic Pro" with no extra numbers or spaces
CCT

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I just installed a larger hard drive, and used my Time Machine Backup to transfer my files back to the new hard drive. When I open Iphoto, my thumbnails are there, but they aren't linked back to the actual photos. I see the original photo files in my HD. Is there a way to link the Iphoto thumbnails back to the original files?

Use the Firewire cable and t boot the old Mac's hard drive to the new Mac's desktop and transfer your entire iPhoto folder.
Use Disk Utiliy to erase'format HFS+ Journaled your TimeMachine drive and use the free Carbon Copy Cloner and clone your new boot drive to the external, it's hold option bootable.

I cannot able able to start my macbook and then i started my mac in a recovery mode now mac os X utility window opens with 4 options 1. Restore From Time Machine Backup 2. Reinstall Mac OSX 3. Get Help Online 4. Disk Utility if i try to restore my mac wit

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Guitar21,
your MacBook Pro has booted into its Recovery mode. From the OS X Utilities menu, select Disk Utility. On the left-hand side of the Disk Utility window, select your internal disk’s boot partition (typically called “Macintosh HD”). On the right-hand side, press the Verify Disk button if it’s not greyed out; if it is greyed out, or if it reports that errors were found, press the Repair Disk button. Once the verification/repair is completed, exit Disk Utility and select Restart from the Apple menu to restart in normal mode. Does it get to the login screen now?

Time Machine Backups of Pages file cannot be opened by Pages

I just restird a backup of a Pages file from my Time Machine backup volume. It's not a Pages file! Finder jusy says it's a document and if I double click it, a folder is created with the same name as the file with a number appended. There are sevarla files in the folder - none of them can be opened by Pages.
I'm aware of the Preference to save a backup copy but that saves just one copy, not a tru backup.
Is there some way round this? I'm not inclined to use a product if I can't back up it's files safely.
Pete

It's what I assumed.
An iWork document created with the format introduced by iWork '09 is in fact a folder packed with a specific tool.
If we remove the name extension, the system can't guess that it's an iWork document.
According to the structure of the file, it recognize it as an archive and it unpack it.
It's a variant of what I do when I want to study the contents of the index.xml file describing a document.
In my scheme, I rename wxyz.pages as wxyz.pages.zip
When I unpack it, I get a document wxyz.pages which is a Pages document in the old structure.
When Time Machine give you a document entitled wxyz, it's important to add the extension name by yourself.
If you forget and expand the beast as a folder, nothing is lost. Just rename the folder waxy as waxy.pages and Pages will open it.
From my point of view, the fact that Time Machine return a document without its name extension is a bug in Time Machine.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) lundi 2 mai 2011 22:30:54
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I don't believe it does. I know that there was an issue in the past where it wouldn't back up any of the iPhoto Library if iPhoto was open. I don't know if that was fixed. But, like you, I can't find anything else to verify my suspicion.
If the program supports Auto-save and Versions, then you would be able to go back through the versions, but I don't think QuickBooks would support that.

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I tried to restore the Entourage identity from a day or two before only to see that the date in Time Machine for the file was way old.
I suspected that because I leave the app open all the time, particularly all night when my backups run at 11 pm that the file never got backed up. Does this sound right?
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After a hard drive failiure, I'm trying to access my Time Machine backup from a different computer, but when double-clicking on the sparsebackup file I get the following error:
The Time Machine backup was done wirelessly, to a hard drive plugged in via USB to an AirPort Extreme router. I've now connected the hard drive (via FireWire) to my backup computer.
I suppose I could plug the drive back into the router and see if that works, but restoring via WiFi will take FOREVER — the sparsebundle is 750 GB.
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I think you will need to connect to the USB attached to the airport..
But you can use ethernet not wireless.
If you are using a Mac without an ethernet port then get a thunderbolt to ethernet or if no thunderbolt, then usb to ethernet adapter.. that is the second best by a long way.
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Finder "Open With..." Menus Seeing Time Machine Backup Volumes

The "Open With..." context menu that is available if you right-click a file in the Finder has gone crazy on my Mac. The list is about a mile long and includes literally dozens of versions of each app.
One clue is that a similar "Open Page With..." menu that is available under Safari's Debug menu includes paths, and each redundant version of the applications that appear there are all located in the Time Machine backup volume.
It's hard to imagine that Time Machine doesn't auto-configure this, but my question to the group is if there's a way to make the Finder (and Safari) ignore the Time Machine backup database? Clearly, I would never, ever want to open a file with an app located in the Time Machine database.
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I have excluded my external USB drive where Time Machine backups reside, and I still get a context menu full of backed up applications.
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MacOS must look for this information elsewhere.

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