Recovering iTunes from Time Machine

I am trying t recover my "music" folder from Time Maxhine, but when I do, ALL of the music, including albums i loaded "by hand" is supposedly "not there"? Am I doing something wrong?

I did a complete reinstall from a couple of days ago. All better!
- Michael D.

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Recovering Calendars from Time Machine

I want to recover calendars from Time Machines. What files/folders do I recover?
I imagine I need ~/Library/Calendars.
What other files/folders would I also need to recover?
Thanks,
Stephen

Was this the correct answer? Did it work?

Recovering iPhoto from Time Machine - Project is not recovered, the book is

Having lost a book in iPhoto, I recovered iPhoto from Time Machine. The Project containing the book was there, but the pictures in the book were not. The pictures are in the photos section, but not in the book. I do not want to have to reload the pictures one by one. Any suggestions. Looks like a defect in Time Machine
Richard

I just recovered a library with a couple of books in them and all photos were in the book. You might try recovering a different backup of the same library. Go backward from the time of your last attempt and then, if necessary, forward. If all fail then you've got an problem with TM and that library. Check to see if other files can be recovered satisfactorily. If you use iWeb try recovering your domain file from a time back (select the option to keep both so you don't lose your work to date).
It might be a little late, i.e. the horse is out of the barn, but you might consider using a separate library for your books. That provides a couple of benefits: 1 - working in your primarary library, deleting files, etc. will have no effect on your book; 2 - it's easy to backup and archive the book for ordering additional copies in the future. Old Toad's Tutorials #9 and 9a describe two different methods. I prefer #9a.
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto (iPhoto.Library for iPhoto 5 and earlier versions) database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
I've created an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger or later), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. There are versions that are compatible with iPhoto 5, 6, 7 and 8 libraries and Tiger and Leopard. Just put the application in the Dock and click on it whenever you want to backup the dB file. iPhoto does not have to be closed to run the application, just idle. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.
NOTE: iPhoto 8's new option in it's rebuild library window, "Rebuild the iPhoto Library Database from automatic backup" may make this tip obsolete. We'll know when users have occasion to use it and see if that's the case.

HT201250 Restore playlist to iTunes from Time Machine backup

I need to restore my playlist to iTunes from Time Machine backup. Anyone know how?

cindy1023 wrote:
i had a hacker get in my computer, got all my info used my name and passwords to convert safari into windows on another computer? and APPLE IS THE ONE GAVE HER THE PASSWORD.
There is no way to "convert" Safari into Windows. And very unlikely for a hacker to get into a Mac.
But, ok, your system is all messed-up somehow.
First, what version of OSX is on your Mac? If you don't know, click the Apple icon at the upper-left of the screen and select About This Mac. You'll see a display like this:
We need the Version number.
Second question: do you have backups made with Time Machine (on an external HD or the like) that you want to restore, or do you want to start your Mac over fresh, the way it came from the factory?
p.s. i dont have the disc it came with , my daughter set it up for me to get started !
You may need that, depending on what version of OSX you're running, to restore the backups or start fresh.
You really should have a copy of the original disc, as there's an Apple Hardware Test on it, tailored to the hardware on that Mac. You'll need it it there's ever a problem. If your daughter can't send it, call AppleCare (800-275-2273),and give them your serial number -- they can send you a replacement for a nominal fee.
Sorry, but it's late here, and I'm going to bed, but will be back tomorrow.

How to recover mail from time machine

I need to recover all my emails - thousands of messages in numerous mailboxes - from Time Machine. What is the best way to do this?

Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
~/Library/Mail/V2
Right-click or control-click the highlighted line and select
Services ▹ Open
from the contextual menu.* A folder should open. Inside it are subfolders representing your Mail accounts. The names refer to the email addresses you use.
Enter Time Machine and scroll back to the snapshot you want. Select the account folders you want and then select Restore ... to... from the action menu (gear icon) in the toolbar of the snapshot window. Restore the folders to the Desktop, not to their original location.
From the Mail menu bar, select
File ▹ Import Mailboxes...
Import from the mailboxes in the folders you restored to the Desktop. The imported messages will appear in a new mailbox. Move the ones you want to keep wherever you like and delete the rest. Then delete the folders on the Desktop.
*If you don't see the contextual menu item, copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. In the Finder, select
Go ▹ Go to Folder...
from the menu bar, paste into the box that opens (command-V). You won't see what you pasted because a line break is included. Press return.

Restoring iTunes from Time Machine and external HD

Hi there,
I've done some searching and i haven't been able to find the answer to this problem. I am wondering if someone can help me with this.
My HD was faulty so i had it replaced. my complete 300gb music library was backed up on an external HD. The iTunes program was running on my local HD. So i ran the local iTunes off of my ext. HD.
Now that i have a new HD and i restored everything from Time Machine, for some reason all my playlists and songs have been emptied from the new iTunes.
I am trying to restore it to its original state instead of readding everything from the external HD and trying to remember all the playlists. (and that doesn't work either as it comes up with errors.)
I have looked for the plist and or old .itl or.xml but nothing shows up.
Any ideas?
Ari

docutale1 wrote:
Hi there,
I've done some searching and i haven't been able to find the answer to this problem. I am wondering if someone can help me with this.
My HD was faulty so i had it replaced. my complete 300gb music library was backed up on an external HD. The iTunes program was running on my local HD. So i ran the local iTunes off of my ext. HD.
Now that i have a new HD and i restored everything from Time Machine,
Did you restore the entire disk from Time Machine?
Boot from your System install DVD then Restore from backup and select the Time Machine drive?
See this -> http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/14.html

Recovering iCal from Time Machine

In syncing my iPhone with my desktop, all calenders and events were wiped out. Trying to recover the data from Time Machine has been unsuccessful. Whenever I download the data from earlier, the calender does not show the missing events. I chose "replace" when it asked, yet still nothing. Any help?

ssamnelson,
What file(s) did you replace using Time Machine?
Open your Macintosh HD/Users/yourusername/Library/Calendars Folder, and locate the Calendar Cache file. Quit iCal and move the Calendar Cache file to your Desktop.
Additionally, navigate to your Macintosh HD/Users/yourusername/Library/Preferences Folder, and find the com.apple.iCal.plist file. Drag that file to your desktop, log out/in or restart and let us know if iCal finds the missing events/calendars.
;~)

Restore iTunes from Time Machine

Thanks, in advance, for any help.
I keep my iTunes/iTunes Music folder on an external HD.
I want to restore a previous version from Time Machine but the error message is that there isn't enough room on the external drive to do the restore.
I could trash some music in order to make room on the external drive but that seems a bit scary. Is that a dangerous strategy?
An alternative could be to get a new larger external drive.
But, is it possible to do an iTunes/iTunes Music folder restore from Time Machine to a new empty external HD?
I'd prefer not to buy a new drive so if Option 1 (trash some content and restore from Time Machine) is safe, that would be great.
Option 2 - can a restore from Time Machine be executed to a new, empty external HD?
If both are possible, which is preferable?
What say ye enlightened folks?
TYVM
- ed

This worked:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uM_qKJrHh_o&feature=youtu.be

How can I migrate iTunes from time machine to new macbook air?

My old macbook died completely and will now not start up, so I cannot reauthorise it. I have everything backed up on time machine on an external hard drive (passport for mac). How can I just restore iTunes but nothing else? I cannot find any option to select what is restored. I don't want to put all the junk onto my new mac!
Thanks in advance for your help

06/2014 ChrisCA post: Restore iTunes library from Time Machine backup - https://discussions.apple.com/message/26104480

Please Help Me Is there any way of recovering files from time machine

Recently had a new hard drive fitted,tried to restore files from time machine,but failed went to Apple store with my imac and time machine.
They said use migration app, needed to add a new user profile to do this.
When entering time machine there were lots of previous backups, Still didnt restore everything and when it did it said did not have permission to open them.
Anyway have deleted the later user profile from my mac and now my time machine only goes back to two weeks ago.
is there anyway that i canrecover what seems to be lost files as I have lost photos,movies etc
Many thanks
Nick

Jawad
Since you haven't upgraded your iPhone from 4.3 there will also not be an iCloud back-up.,,, so.....
So there is no way to restore it, but before you start rekeying your contacts you should.
1. Back it up on Itunes (11.0.1) and a computer, it will help you upgrade your IOS (6.0.1) at the same time.
2. When complete ensure you have a back-up.
3. Set-up iCloud and iCloud back-up
4. Start keying....
Sorry in advance..

Recovering Mail from Time Machine

I have had to, for a variety of reasons, to reinstall my osx Lion. I did not want to use the migration assistant to restore my whole computer the way it used to be because I did not want any earlier software glitches to transfer from time machine to my new reinstall. Si I've opted for the time consuming process of restoring specific apps. The one app I am having trouble with is mail. I would like to restore all my old e mails, smart folders etc but I do not want my old mail's settings. Is there some way to do this?
Also, when I do a restore, does the old mail software also get transferred alongwith the e mail data?
Thank you.

Thanks for this, Eric. When you say do a backup, you mean do a new backup? using Time Machine? - of the current contents of my laptop? Which will include my almost empty Gmail Sent Messages mailbox.
At the moment (pre-new backup) there is no AoisIMAP item in my Library/Mail/V2 folder - what there is, in terms of Gmail, is:
Library/Mail/V2/[email protected]/Sent Mail.mbox and also Library/Mail/V2/[email protected]/Sent Messages.mbox. Are you saying that when I do my new backup, I'll get a new folder in V2 called AoisIMPA/Sent Messages.mbox?
And then, going into my Time Machine, do I go to the last backup I did before the new one (August 16) or do I go into the new backup which I'll have just made?
Thanks so much for helping me with these questions, Eric!
One more weird thing, on my Time Machine backups of my current laptop (an 11" Air), which I've had about 9 months (and last backed up 8/16, that's about 3 weeks before I accidentally deleted my Gmail Sent Messages), NONE of my Sent Gmails are showing in any of the backups I did for it (about 12 over the 9 months), although all the mail, sent or received, on my mac.com and aol.com accounts have been backed and are showing.
On my other Air (13") which I've had a couple of years, my Time Machine backups show my Gmail Sent Messages up to October 30, 2013 but then in every subsequent back up, the Gmail Sent Messages folder is also empty! (Mac.com & aol.com folders are all showing all their mail, throughout all the backups).
Any explanation on that? Did something happen between Apple & Google?
Thanks again, looking forward to more advice and information.
Vikramjnt x

Recovering photos from time machine

I just bought a new MacBook Pro and find that time machine is not allowing me to retrieve photos from Time Machine through iPhoto like it used to. How do I do that now?

With the current version of iPhoto only entire iPhoto Libraries can be restored:
If you need to restore a single photo and know the file name there is a way to do that. If that's what you want post back and I'll layout how to do it.
OT

Can't recover iMac from Time Machine backup

Hi there
I need your help! My photos, music, videos, and other data is gone.. Especially the photos i would like to have back, they were stored in my Aperture library (about 13.000 pictures).
For a few days ago my iMac (with Mountain Lion) wouldn't start, just showed the white screen with the 'thinking-circle' - no further… But I wasn't worried , because I had a Time Machine backup. So I restarted, holding down the option key. Then I chose to restore from the backup i had made. It started, but there wasn't going much time before it stopped, said there was an error with the backup.… When it started up again, tried again it said the same. So from there I couldn't boot the iMac, and i couldn't restore it with the Time Machine backup.
Then I made an fresh install of the OSX Mountain Lion on an other external hdd (from my Macbook Pro). I connected the external hdd to the iMac and booted from there. And then in the disk utility i could see the original hdd in the iMac. It sais - Capacity: 999,35 GB - Used: 733,3 MB. So it almost just erased/formatted… The backup hdd's capacity is: 2 TB - Used: 566 GB
Then I took my Macbook Pro and connected the backup hdd (2 TB) to it. But it didn't show me any hdd in the Finder. I opened the disk utility and there it was! The hdd showing as the other one i had connected. But the partition is grayed out. So I guess it was right that there is an error on the hdd. So i selected the hdd and pressed 'Repair disk'. It completed and said it was ok. Then i selected the partition and pressed 'Repair disk'. It took very much longer time (1-2 hours), and then it told me that it wasn't able to repair. 'Mac OS X can't repair the disk "GlennovitS 2TB". You can still open or copy files on the disk, but you can't save changes to files on the disk. Back up the disk and reformat it as soon as you can.'
But anyway the partition now was showing with black text, and therefore I could see it in the Finder. And opening it in the Finder showed me one folder: 'Backups.backupdb'. I can open that, and see whats in the folders (it is just VERY slow opening. Can hear the hdd working but it takes so long time to actually see the results.). So i can see the different dates from my backups, open and see whats backuped. And i can look through the folders and find the folder where my Aperture library is stored, and its there! So i copied it and tried to paste it to my other external hdd. But it wouldn't. It showed me the error: 'The Finder can't complete the operation because some data can't be read or written (Error code -36).'
I have googlet a lot, and tried a lot now. Both the hdd's is Mac OS (Journaled) format. There is space enough on the other hdd. I have tried using the 'dot_clean' operation in Terminal, to the library and to the folder that its located in, and then try copying again - still no success. Also tried to copy through Terminal with some 'sudo cp…' . Also I tried to remove the file-extension from the library (.aplibrary) so it should become an ordinary folder, but in the info of the file, the field with name is grayed out, can't edit in there. Also tried to compres the library or the folder its in, to a ZIP file, but it can't do that either. Tried to use a program called 'JFileRecovery' but didn't work either. Then I connected it to a Windows 7 pc, but it can't see the hdd at all.. I have also tried to connect the backup hdd to the iMac (booted from the clean installed external hdd) instead of the Macbook Pro, but it makes no difference.
If you need info about my setup it is:
iMac 27" 3,1 GHz - i5 - 12 GB ram - 1 TB hdd
Time Machine Backup drive: WD external - 2 TB
Second external: iomega 1 TB
Extra boot hdd (with the clean Mountain Lion install) : iomega 250 GB
Macbook Pro 15" - 2,53 GHz core2duo - 4 GB ram - 250 GB hdd
Aperture file size: 163,29 GB
My iTunes library was about 2.000 songs and 100 videos + app's + podcast… (haven't tried copying that yet, only the images because they are my main issue…)
If you have read all this, thank you for that. Hope you see my frustration and hopefully have some ideas of what to do?.. Recover from the original hdd - recover backup hdd - or fix the files / copy them from the corrupted backup somehow? Please help...
From Glenn :-)

If there is any chance of recovery at all your best bet is Prosoft Data Rescue 3 . There is a free trial to see if it can recover what you need. But don't do another process on that drive until you've downloaded and run it.
That means that ideally you should use another bootable drive to download and run Data Rescue. Or booted from another Mac in firewire mode. Also, there is always the option of ordering or going to the store to purchase the DVD. Then running from the optical drive.

Recovering Data from Time Machine

Recently I had to have my MAC repaired. It would not boot up. The hard drive was erased, and 10.5 was reinstalled. With Time Machine I've been able to restore Quicken, but all my Safari bookmarks are gone. ITunes is now empty and it will only take those songs from my IPOD that originally came from the ITunes store. What is the safest method of transferring music from my IPOD to ITunes? Is there ant way to recover my bookmarks? Thank you.

If you boot from the Leopard install DVD, select the language, then go to the "Utilities" menu, you can restore the entire drive (including all your music and applications) from the Time Machine backup.

Restoring iTunes from Time Machine

Yesterday I did a clean install of Snow Leopard on my MBP. Now I would like to restore my iTunes library from my Time Capsule. I ensured that I did a full back up of my OS prior to the clean install. However, now when I enter Time Machine (the Star Wars interface), the backups created yesterday and before are not available. It shows the backups, but it won't let me access them. Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Hi, and welcome to the forums.
Since you erased everything, and set up one or more new user accounts, those accounts may not be recognized as being the same as the ones on your backups. One user, even an Admin user, doesn't normally have access to a different user's files, and Time Machine enforces that on the backups as well.
Also, when you erased your MBP's disk, it got a new UUID, which is how TM and OSX keep track of drives, so it's treated as a different one. By the way, the next backup will be a full one because of that.
Try the procedure in #E3 of [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 that doesn't work, your best bet is to start over, and use +Setup Assistant+ to transfer most or all of your stuff. See #19 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), for details and instructions. You'll need to start with the green box there.

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