Reinstall mavericks from time machine

I will be installing a SSD in my Mac mini.
I can I install my Time Machine copy of Mavericks to the new SSD?

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Of course. The only thing you will have to do is to connect the external drive with the Time Machine backup, hold the Option (Alt) key while your Mac is starting and choose the Time Machine disk. Then, select the option to restore a Time Machine backup and follow the steps.
It's easy to restore the Time Machine backup if it was created in Mountain Lion or Mavericks. You may have to format the SSD first with Disk Utility > http://pondini.org/OSX/DU1.html

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Last week, I found one of my cat sitting on my opening laptop. When I pushed her off, my mail program was all messed up. Now random things go to spam. One of my email accounts does sync anymore and keeps asking me for my password. I have lost full folders from multiple accounts. It is a mess. How can I reinstall just the Mail app from Time Machine from a week ago??
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Time Machine backups can be restored from OSX's Recovery Partition. However, restoring from a Time Machine backup from a week ago will mean that your computer will be exactly as it was a week ago, so store any new and important documents on a flash drive/cloud storage service so you don't lose them. Once you have done this, do the following:
Turn up your computer's volume, and make sure it is not muted.
Reboot your computer, and when you hear the "Ding", hold down Command + R until the Apple logo and progress bar appear.
Wait for it to load. It may take a while.
Once it does, you should see a screen that says "OSX Utilities". Connect the drive with your Time Machine backups now.
Click the option that says "Restore from Time Machine Backup" and then click "Continue".
Do everything it tells you to do, and select the backup from a week ago.
Once finished, restore the important documents from the flash drive/cloud storage service
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If you have installed CS4 from Time Machine, you might face some licensing issues. So, best option for you is to uninstall the existing CS4 installation from Applications->Utilities->Adobe Installers folder and then install CS6 using the installer(dvd or download) that you have.
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Do a backup.
Quit Mail.
Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Go to Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/V2. Enter Time Machine and you can search from there.
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I just upgraded to Yosemite from Maverick overnight on my mid 2012 MacBook air via app store. On first boot up this morning, I did NOT choose to encrypt my hard drive or use iCloud during set-up. I was proceeding thru the set-up steps, then got an unresponsive iCloud system preferences window, with a small drop down window to set up an apple id, asking for birthday, security questions, etc. I have an apple id, and drop down is too small to reveal security questions or allow me to respond. Quit didn't work, and I started trolling this support site to find out what to do. I finally managed to force quit it just now. I am NOT a power user, I use my computer for email, photo organization, internet surfing, and some docs and spreadsheets. (I retired and switched to MAC to avoid all the microsoft BS, and haven't looked back. :-)
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1. What issues, if any, are people having after reverting back to Mavericks after a Time Machine recovery?
2. Are there any special instructions to do this restore that are not in the standard restore instructions? Mac Basics: Time Machine backs up your Mac - Apple Support
I am a bit concerned to move forward, so any advice or re-assurance will enable me to take the next step. I am gonna hang out and see what I hear before I take the plunge to time machine restore!

Yes, Mavericks has smashed people's old backups.. start a new backup in a different location.. or archive off the old backup from the TC onto a USB drive.. wipe the drive and start again. You can then access the backups on the USB any time you want.. plug it into the computer and use TM to look at the files.
Spend a bit of time reading how TM works.
And what you can do with it.
http://pondini.org/TM/Home.html
Even if you just skim through FAQ.. check out how to mount TM backups from another mac..(effectively your old Mountain Lion install is another mac).
http://pondini.org/TM/17.html
Keeping your old backup intact makes good sense.. !!

Reinstalling iphoto from time machine

I have iphoto on my time machine and have wiped and rebuilt my computer but I can't copy the iphoto back to my computer, why?

Iphoto application? Reinstall from the original source.
IPhoto library? Restore from your backup. Mac Basics: Time Machine backs up your Mac
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How do I import my itunes plalists into Mavericks from time machine backup

I just did a clean install of Mavericks, and it won't let me restore iTunes from my Time Machine backup. I imported all the media, but I can't import the playlists. When I grab a playlist file, I get "it doesn't appear to be exported."
Any ideas about how I can navigate, show hidden files, if necessary, to get my playlists back?
Thanks for any help!

Son of a gun...it worked. I tried that two days ago and if failed...or it was pilot error and I did something wrong. In any event, what I did was go directly to the Time Machine folder and drag out the iTunes library.itl onto my Mavericks desktop, then put it into the iTunes folder, then restarted iTunes and Bingo it worked.
Thank you very much.

Can't reinstall iTunes from time machine help?

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But if I transfer everything with the Setup Assistant, won't I once again be experiencing the problems I had?
If the problems were caused by your data. But that's extremely unlikely. It may have been an app, or, much more likely from your description, something corrupted in the Leopard OS. That's one of the problems with upgrading a sick system without knowing what or where the causes are. It's a bit like a brain surgeon operating on himself: if he isn't in tip-top shape to start with, his condition is likely to change, and not for the better.
Most of us would have recommended first simply doing a +*Repair Disk+* on your internal HD; if that didn't help, installing the "combo" Leopard update; if that didn't work, doing an +Archive and Install+ and re-installing the "combo."
After a clean re-install of Snow Leopard, my Mac worked fine again (except for the TM trouble). So it probably had something to do with my old files.
Probably not. Much more likely OSX was somehow damaged. And you got a whole new one.
How come I could read the files on my external HD and yet not be able to copy the files?
Time Machine uses special "deny everybody everything" permissions on it's backups, among other things, in an attempt to keep us mere mortals from moving, changing, or deleting things and corrupting them.

Reinstalling programs from Time Machine.

I want to do a clean out of my machine, as I've got quite a few unwanted programs installed and just stuff cluttering up my HD.
I currently have several TM Backups on an external disk, If I erase my machines HD and reinstall the OS will I then be able to reinstall the selected programs individually from the application folder of TM or will I need the original .dmg files?
Presumable I can also just reinstall the document folders I require individually as well?
ped.

Your best bet, by far, is to simply delete what you don't want.
If you erase everything, install OSX and then use +Setup Assistant+ to transfer some of your stuff from backups, you can omit some broad categories of things, but you can't "pick and choose" individual apps, or individual files in your home folders. See [Using Setup Assistant|http://web.me.com/pondini/AppleTips/SetupAsst.html].
If you erase everything, install OSX and create a user account, so you can do selective restores via the "Star Wars" display, that account may or may not be recognized as the one on your backups, so may not have permission to restore the files.
Even if it is, you can restore some apps successfully, (simple ones, that were just dropped in the Applications folder), but you may need to re-enter any purchase keys or serial numbers.
The more complex apps, that came with their own installers, put other files in other places, usually in your top-level /Library folder. If you don't know what and where those are, and restore them, too, the app won't work properly, if at all.
Worse, some install "helper" apps, too. Often those are named similar to the main app, but sometimes they have different names, and may actually be from a different maker. Of course, these apps may have other files of their own!
To work properly, all such apps may need to be reinstalled from their original discs.

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Ok, so I have a mid-2007 iMac and the hard drive finally died. It originally shipped with Leopard or something, but I had it upgraded to Mavericks. I have an external hard drive with a current Time Machine backup on it. I am about to replace the internal hard drive with a brand new (unformatted) hard drive. So here is the question: Is there a way to boot from my Time Machine backup and then reformat the drive and do a Time Machine recovery?
I have the old OS X install disks, but I don't want to have to upgrade through all of the old OS Xs. I also have a Macbook that I could create a bootable USB from--something like this (http://lifehacker.com/how-to-create-an-os-x-mavericks-usb-installation-drive-145 0280026)--and then I could reformat the drive and recover from Time Machine. But is there an easier way? Can I just boot straight from my external hard drive that has the backup on it?
Thanks for your help everyone, I'm hoping to be able to take care of all of this tonight.

You can try this. OPTION boot the computer.
Boot Using OPTION key:
1. Restart the computer.
2. Immediately after the chime press and hold down the
"OPTION" key.
3. Release the key when the boot manager appears.
4. Select the disk icon labeled Recovery HD.
5. Click on the arrow button below the icon.
This should boot the Mavericks Utilities Menu.
Drive Partition and Format
1. Open Disk Utility from the Utilities menu.
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area. If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing. SMART info will not be reported on external drives. Otherwise, click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Apply button and wait until the process has completed.
4. Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
5. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Security button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
6. Click on the Erase button. The format process can take up to several hours depending upon the drive size.
When the formatting is done quit Disk Utility and return to the Main Menu. Now select the option to restore/reinstall OS X from a Time Machine backup. Follow the directions.

Resore From Time Machine Backup after Reinstall OS X (Maverick)

Hi all
I have a MacBook pro mid 2010, after reinstalled OS X(maverick) from command + R (disk utility), I try to Restore from TIme Machine Backup, and then after 2 hours, the computer turn off and now I try to turning it on, but only last 5 seconds on and then turn off by it self.
Then I try to Reintall OS X(Maverick) again, and it work fine, I can turn the mac on, navigate to all windows, use the internet, I can turn it off and then turn it on, not problem. Then I need to restore from time machine again so I can get all my data from my last backup. I turned off the mac, then turn it on hold command+R then go to Disk utility Restore From TIme Machine Backup, wait for 2 hours, and again the computer turn off. I try to turn it on but only last 5 second on and then turn it off by it self.
I need help please.
thanks

Do you know which OS version it had originally and which version was on it before the seller wiped it?
That's important because, unless he did the right thing, his Apple ID and password may still be associated with it. You can easily fix that by booting into Internet Recovery (hold down Command + Option + R keys), choose to erase the drive using Disk Utility, and then reinstall the OS. That should resinstall the original OS version (if Lion or later) and then you can upgrade using your own Apple ID.
I'd recommend doing it that way to avoid any possible problems since we don't know what the seller did or didn't do.

Restoring applications from time machine after a clean install of Mavericks.

I had recently upgraded from Mt. Lion to Mavericks from app store. But after few months I thought it was being buggy and slow. Last week after taking a complete time-machine backup I formatted the computer and clean installed Mavericks again. Now I am trying to restore just few handpicked applications one by one. Most of the apps are either not working or asking me for keys. Is there any other way to restore apps from Time Machine? Because all I see is that it just copy pastes the folder from the backup, and does not restore the prefe

If I were you, I would not restore your applications from the backup, more if you want the preferences back. Performance issues will be back and you may need to reformat the hard drive again.
Instead, the best thing you can do is to reinstall your applications manually, so you will not be transferrind files you do not need

Unable to recover Mavericks via Time Machine on iMac (2011). I have one Time Machine backup from this week On new Time Capsule. I already attempted safe boot and NPRAM reset. Hard drive and permissions verified as ok.

Some more history - I'm not too techie so added everything in I thought might be significant!
- Installed Mavericks on iMac in October 2013
- experienced regular low memory issues - used Memory Clean app as a workaround
- last week decided to upgrade installed memory from 4gb to 16gb. Faster loading but still running out of memory - just takes longer to do so.
- also last week purchased 2gb Time Capsule (to back up 660gb on 1TB drive)
- one successful Time Machine backup completed last weekend.
- I decided to try and clear some space, tidy my folders, old music files, delete duplicates etc (Not system files)
- then tried out 'time machine restore' just to test it out. Deleted files and folders recovered ok using Time Machine menu (the one that looks like outta space)
- yesterday, Avast Anti-Virus flagged virus detected (sorry, I didn't manage to capture details) and quarantined file, but I couldn't get any windows to respond so forced Mac to shutdown.
- attempted regular reboot , system hanging on white/ apple symbol screen.
- attempted Safe reboot - reboot stalls at mess 'BootCacheControl: unable to open /var/db/BootCache.playlist no such file or directory.
(I don't know if this is significant)
- attempt NPRAM reset, reboot hanging at Apple symbol still
- attempted reboot into Disk Utility. HD drive verified ok. Permissions checked and Safari permissions fixed (only)
- finally attempting restore from Time Machine Backup via Disk Utility. Stalls at 'select a backup source'. Menu is 'searching for Time Machine Backup....'
Nothing is listed, after a few mins machine just goes to sleep.
My Time Capsule and networks are all switched on. No idea what to try next!

Most of the problems like this that people report on this forum are due to bad "utilities" like Memory Clean and Avast.
Your Mac probably didn't have a virus. There has never been an OSX virus "in the wild". Third party antivirus software is of very dubious utility on Macs. Macs are not PCs. OSX has anti-malware protection built into it already.
Do you have any other third party "utilities" on your Mac, such as CleanMyMac or MacKeeper?
Is the RAM you installed the recommended type of RAM for your Mac?
Take a look at this page: Mac OS X: Gray screen appears during startup
But your OS may be damaged beyond repair, or beyond what disk utility is able to repair.
In that case you have a few options:
There is a small chance that a (reputable) third part utility like Techtool Pro 7 may be able to fix your OS.
Try to boot into single user mode (restart, hold down ⌘S until you see a black screen with white text) and repair your hard drive. Here's a reference with directions: Repair Your Hard Disk in Single User Mode | Everything Macintosh
bite the bullet, boot into the recovery partition or internet recovery, and erase your HD, reinstall Mavericks from scratch, and start over. Your documents are probably still on your Time Machine Backup. I wouldn't reinstall the documents via a migration- you don't want to reinstall bad system files along with your documents- but you could copy them one by one back to your internal HD. And most importantly- don't reinstall any third party "utilites" like Memory Clean or Avast (or any other third-party antivirus software, for that matter).

How do I restore applications from Time Machine after installing Mavericks?

I have a 2010 13" MBP and it was running slow, so I used internet recovery to install Mavericks. I had hoped to reinstall all my applications such as Office, iWork etc from my Time Machine backups but it won't let me. I wonder if since I erased my old HD it doesn't recognize the backups from Time Machine. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!
Ben

See Pondini's TM FAQs, for details.

ITunes library disappeared and cannot reinstall from Time Machine

I have searched all support threads for my problem -- updated to Mavericks and all my playlists disappeared and audio files that the new itunes didn't seem to know what to do with (meditation i.e.) I've tried to reinstall from Time Machine, but all support threads refer to itunes library and folder which I don't have anymore. I drag it to the desktop and tried to reload from there. I tried to do it directly from TM but get the error message that says something about a file instead of a folder.
Has anyone else had this

This is what things should look like:
More on iTunes library files and what they do - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITunes#Media_management
What are all those iTunes files? - http://www.macworld.com/article/139974/2009/04/itunes_files.html
Where are my iTunes files located? - http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1391
iTunes 9 [and later]: Understanding iTunes Media Organization - http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3847
Image of folder structure and explanation of different iTunes versions (turingtest2 post) - https://discussions.apple.com/message/13025536 and https://discussions.apple.com/message/17457605

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