Restoring with Time Capsule.

I have been having some issues with my computer wanting to shut down with the grey screen lately. And I want to format and reinstall my OS and start fresh.. My questions are as follows: When I do this can I restore partial files back on to my machine like certain apps. And when or if I drag the apps from the application folders I will assume all the necessary files will copy over? Or should I try to install from the original disks?

Stvbrn wrote:
I have been having some issues with my computer wanting to shut down with the grey screen lately. And I want to format and reinstall my OS and start fresh.. My questions are as follows: When I do this can I restore partial files back on to my machine like certain apps. And when or if I drag the apps from the application folders I will assume all the necessary files will copy over? Or should I try to install from the original disks?
You have several choices:
A full system restore. That's everything, including OSX (unless you excluded important things). See #14 in Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of the +Time Machine+ forum).
After installing OSX, use +Setup Assistant+ to restore everything else, or parts of everything else. You can select or omit some broad categories of things, but you can't pick and choose within them. See the green box in #19 of the FAQ. Then download and install the "combo" update, to get back to 10.6.4 (unless that's the version on your Install disc). Info and download available at: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1048 Be sure to do a +Repair Permissions+ via Disk Utility (in your Applications/Utilities folder) afterwards.
Restore only selected items. To do that, you should first restore at least the user accounts from your backups via Setup Assistant, so the users on the Mac are the same ones as on the backups. Otherwise, they won't have permission to restore what looks like a different user's data.
Some apps can be restored that way, some can't. Complex apps, that came with special installers, put various files in assorted places. Unless you know what and where they all are, and restore them, the app won't work properly, if at all. In those cases, you'll need to reinstall them from the original discs.
And no, restoring apps doesn't restore data. Data is kept separately.
Try to avoid dragging anything from your backups. First, the permissions may not transfer properly; second, if you accidentally change, move, or delete anything there, you can hopelessly corrupt your backups. Use only the apps and procedures provided by Apple.

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When doing a full restore with Time Capsule, I get -8003 error; restoring nothing. This happens with all recent backups. Also after doing a verify/repair of the TimeCapsule disk.
This is a dissaster for my originals (my Ableton Live projects). I am very dissapointed in TC and TM at this moment, because I trusted my backup system in combination with my MBP fully.
Please help?
Best regards, Tom

Hi Pondini,
Sorry for the late response, but the problem was something else and were two separate ones.
Somewhere along the way the TC backup couldn't find backup to the original TC volume, that's why I let TM backup towards my user volume named 'Tom'.
When I wanted to restore the root of my drive when selecting the diskname and 'Restore' in any point in time, this resulted in error -8003 in the activated TimeMachine.
Then I tried to do it via the recovery OS and even via the original OSX DVD. Both not enabling me to select the TC volume named 'Tom'. Then I remembered that I first backed-up onto the original 'TimeCapsule' volume/partition. When I copied the sparsefile to the 'TimeCapsule' partition, I was able to recover the entire disk using the recovery OS.
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The very best way to do this is with ethernet to the existing router. Put the TC in bridge mode manually.
Then plug it in to existing router.. we recommend LAN router to WAN on the TC but even that is not 100% necessary.
If you want to link by wireless, to a non-apple router that is bad.. recommend strongly against it. Join a wireless network is super slow.
If you have a desktop Mac you can plug it directly into the Mac by ethernet.
But we need to know how the Mac is connected to internet.
I have given some info on one layout here.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4817218?tstart=30
If you end up relying on an old TC. And any of the models from Gen1-3.. and increasingly Gen4 have all reached EOL.. they can die suddenly and either take your files with them or be hard to recover. Also a TC is slow cf a USB external drive even, which is more reliable. Considering a 2TB is <$100 I would be careful using an old TC simply because you got it free.

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I had to restore my system from my Time Capsule but it is not working.
Help needed.
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Blinkyrus wrote:
i restored my Time capsule backup on my mac because of the need for space to install windows on my mac (Boot camp doesent works!) i can use all my programms and data well exept Mail when i start mail it Flashes:
You can’t use this version of Mail with this version of Mac OS X
You have Mail version 4.0 (1075/1076). It can’t be used on Mac OS X Version 10.6.1 (Build 10B504). For more information, click the Help button.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/DL930
It would have been more appropriate to post your message in one of the Mac OS X 10.6 message sections.

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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1427
http://www.recovermymac.co.uk/data-recovery/time-capsule-data-recovery/
This is a great article:
http://pondini.org/OSX/SetupLion.html
Most questions about TimeCapsule and TimeMachine are under Mac OS X forum as in -
https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_os/os_x_mountain_lion#/?tagSet=1468

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Hello,
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Regards,
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According to Time Capsule manual, it's written that a hard reset would retain saved profiles, so I supposed it was saved into the Time Capsule. It is not the case ?
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"*Saved profiles are used in more recent versions of AirPort Base Stations and Time Capsule to store up to five configurations, known as profiles. A profile contains base station settings, such as names and passwords, and network configuration information, such as the way the base station connects to the Internet. Using profiles may be useful if you move your device from one location to another."
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