Restoring Mac OS from back up time machine
Hi all.
After constant screen freezing and my wife getting more and more irate, I restored my iMac (8,1, 2.66 GHz, Intel Core 2 Duo) back to 10.6.8.(from Mavericks). I had been using an external hard drive for backing up via Time Machine for the past few years, but when I wiped the OS and reinstalled it, I cannot get the Time Machine to restore from the external drive. However, I can see the files if I access the drive normally i.e. not through time machine. Can anyone help as I have not been able to access a heap of data that I need (iPhotos / address book to name but two).
Yours frustrating.
Ben
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