Time Machine Backup - All JEPGS & PSD files are lost

I have backed up all my photos (JPEGS & PSD Files) on my external hard drive before re-installing the operating system.
My machine is up and running again.
When I inserted my external hard drive in the USB port, a back-up was made on the time machine.
I can’t seem to find any JPEG files on my external hard drive,
the specific folders are all still there with a thumbs.db file in each folder.
Would you be able to tell me where all my JPEGS (photos) have gone?
Is there anyway I can retrieve these photos?

OK the scenario you have described does not sound good. Selecting that same external drive to be your Time Machine drive may have resulted in that drive being re-initialised meaning that you have lost whatever data was previously on it.
If you view your Time Machine drive through Finder and you only see a folder structure similar to the following image where is shows a folder named Backups.backupdb (as mine appears, though ignore the "OWC Icons & Shareware" folder as that is specific to my drive) then I am afraid that the files and folders that were previously on it would have gone.
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Chris

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Nas on airport extreme not recognized by time machine. same nas was previously used as time machine backup on different airport extreme. are there any configuration files that i can delete to fix this problem ?

nas on airport extreme not recognized by time machine. same nas was previously used as time machine backup on different airport extreme. are there any configuration files that i can delete to fix this problem ?

Time Machine has been working just fine, but in the last week or two it has given up the ghost. I reset the connections to the drive, and it will basically save a few bytes of data and then hang.
Although Apple originally announced, prior to the release of the first 802.11n AirPort Extreme Base Stations (AEBSn), that it would support Time Machine backups to AirPort Disks, they removed that option before they did finally release the base station for sale.
Since then, Apple has posted (as you have noted) that they DO NOT support Time Machine backups to AirPort Disks. As far as I know, they have not changed from that position and those who do these backups find that they become corrupted over time. Sorry, but it sounds like you just confirmed that for yourself.
1) Has one of the recent updates either on the AE (firmware) or OSX disabled this function?
No. Again, this feature has never been supported by Apple for every generation of AEBSn released.
2) Are there any changes I can make to get this working again?
If your data backups are critical to you, then you will want to use a different solution for your Time Machine backup destination drive strategy. I would suggest that you connect your WD My Book directly to your Mac in the mean time.
Your other options would be to either use a Time Capsule (which interestingly does support TM backups to AirPort Disks) or a non-Apple solution like the Drobo FS or HP MediaSmart server.

Time machine backups cache and temp files?

Just bought a new external usb disk and used it as the time machine backup volume. All time machine configurations are remained as default, so it would backup all my current HD. While watching it estimating the time that the first backup would take, a question jump out in my mind:
Will time machine backup all files "honestly"? Will it make a copy of every file including the Internet cache and temp files when I'm browsing websites? I'm used to watch youtube a lot, and the temp flv file would be large (though I don't know where it is stored on Leopard). If these files would be backup-ed as well, I think it would be a great waste of disk space.
Can anyone confirm that those caches and temp files would be copied or not? If it would, how to prevent this? Thank you.

If you wish to exclude anything from the backup simply drag the item into the Exclude list. For example, you can save considerable space by excluding the /System/ folder. Cache files would be found in the /Library/ and /Home/Library/ folders. Each folder contains a folder named Caches. There is no specific folder in which temporary items as stored that is visible to the user because the operating system will usually delete temporary files on its own. This may not be the case for a specific program, however. Browsers may maintain their own reserved cache and temporary files, and manage them on their own.
I do not think, however, that TM backs up caches or temporary files. I find no such items in my TM backup - only the folders. I do not back up my /System/ folder.

Time Machine Backup and storing certain files, switching to lion

Hey Gang,
I need to unload my harddrive.
Whats the best way to do this? I want to keep some files off my harddrive to free up space. But i want to access them anytime. Should i just do i time machine backup then delete the files and still have access to them? Or should i keep the files out seperate from a time machine backup.
what do you think?
also, i'm getting a 2 tb drive to do a time machine so i can switch over to lion, and if i dont like it, switch back. Any idea's on that front?
Thanks

I woke up 05:00 a.m this morning, so I'll try to grab my coffe and be more specific:
Of course, in general you should not delete backups.
But:
1) How does your Time Machine Volume react/get filled if you happen to MOVE 100 GB of files between backuped volumes, for instance?
2) If the license for Leopard and Snow Leopard or other software, REQUIRES me to delete all copies of the software from the machine, I need to know a) How I delete all backups of the Snow Leopard partition files. And b) Other software: if the App spreads itself into Libraries, Caches and whatever places, I actually need to know more of the general subject on how I according to the legalese and my own wish, need to find such places in the file system. And delete all copies in Time Machine backups.
I am familiar with the general principle of never deleting anything if I do not have to. I have zillions of mail files from the nineties still left in my Mail folders. Never do something that is hard to reverse, if there is not good reason for it.
I am new to participating in the Communities, so, yes I'll try to keep the discussion to what the question was!
But right now - please if anyone could answer the problem I already described here, I would be thankful. I'll not argue that Time Machine deletions has to do with the general problem of exactly how Apps occupy the file system.
But I now realise that I could ctrl-click my Snow Leopard partition and delete it from the Time Machine volume. I'll try that when I get so far!
Thanks!
/groundliner

Where is my I Photo Library in Time Machine Backups as I seem to have lost photos after installing Lion?

Can anybody tell me how I can locate my photos from I Photo in the Time Machine backups as I seem to have lost most of 2011 after installing Lion.
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To recover individual photos open iPhoto and use the File ➙ Browse Backups menu option.
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That will take you into iPhoto in Time Machine where you can search for the phtoos and restore them.
To restore the entire library, close iPhoto, go to the Pictures folder, enter Time Machine, go back in time till you get the library you want to restore, select it and use the Restore button.
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OT

Will full restore from Time Machine backup replace fresh system files?

My ol' iMac G5 has been sluggish and buggy lately. I'd love to do a clean install of Leopard, and then do a full restore from a Time Machine backup.
My question is, will this help? Or will the Time Machine backup simply replace the newly installed system files, leaving me with the same sluggish, buggy OS?

no, this will not help. when you do a full system restore TM will wipe your hard drive and replace everything with the copy of the system at the backup time. You might try doing an erase and install followed by using migration assistant to migrate your user data and/or applications form the Tm drive. that might result in a cleaner system. however, the cleanest way would be to do an erase and install followed by manual migration from the TM drive. Use [this post|http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=6185507] as a guide on manually migrating your data. You'd also have to manually reinstall all your apps.

Time machine backup over wan with bonjour: are transfers encrypted?

Hello,
I have setup a dynamic global hostname and am sharing the connected disk over the WAN with Bonjour, and am able to backup files to the disk connected to the airport extreme over the internet when away from home. Very handy. My question is: are these file transfers encrypted? I've been searching around, but have been unable to find a definitive answer.
From this doc: http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Networking/Conceptual/AFP/A FPSecurity/AFPSecurity.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40000854-CH232-SW1
"Only Mac OS X Server can be connected to via AFP over SSH - AND you have to enable it at the server end. You cannot connect to a Mac OS X Client with AFP over SSH."
So, I take it this means the authentication to the disk is encrypted, but the file transfer itself proceeds in plain text?
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You need to know that Time Machine backups to a USB drive on an Airport Extreme are "iffy" and +*not supported by Apple.+*
See Using Time Machine with an Airport Extreme Air Disk (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum).
Time Machine does not do encryption (or compression).

HT201250 My macbook pro crashed and I had to install a new hard drive. I restored from Time Machine backup all the files from my old hard drive onto my new one.

Does it really back up the whole new drive or does it only back up what's been added? It seemed like it was doing the whole thing when I tried it. I stopped it. Don't want to use up all the space on my external. Is there something else I need to do or did I mess up by not doing the migrating thing? thanks!

If you installed a new hard drive, it has nothing on it and yes TimeMachine is going to take forever to restore everything back.
I guess you'll have to erase and start over again now.
Too bad, you should have made bootable clones in addition to TimeMachine, they can restore in a hour or two depending upon content, they are also option key bootable.
TimeMachine has to go through and calculate all the files it needs to bring forward, the files are strewn all over the drive. The read heads are moving all over the platters all the time from fast sectors to slow ones, not matching what's occuring on the internal drive.
With a clone the files are defragmented and optimized, the drive reads one file, moves the heads a tiny bit and reads the next all the while transferring exactly to the internal drive, they are more in step with one another, thus it's much faster restoring from a clone than TM.
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Slow Time Machine backup with seemingly unnecessary files being processed

Here are logs from three consecutive hourly backups during which my machine was not being used. Note that it takes 8 minutes to complete the backup, even though very few files have been added to the disk (I do webcam captures every 15 minutes via a cron job, that's it). What I find bizarre is that the backups appear to be performed twice, and the first time, it says it's copying a large number of files, though the total file size is very small.
I've looked on the board here and tried various solutions, e.g., I've reindexed Spotlight, checked my disk (no problems), removed the apostrophe from my computer's share name, and applied the 10.5.6 Combo Update.
Anyone have any other suggestions?
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Feb 19 08:03:08 My-iMac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[86068]: Starting standard backup
Feb 19 08:03:17 My-iMac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[86068]: Backing up to: /Volumes/TimeMachine/Backups.backupdb
Feb 19 08:03:45 My-iMac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[86068]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 1.45 GB requested (including padding), 214.67 GB available
Feb 19 08:07:11 My-iMac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[86068]: Copied 58667 files (46 KB) from volume gb.
Feb 19 08:07:35 My-iMac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[86068]: Copied 59139 files (448 KB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Feb 19 08:07:36 My-iMac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[86068]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 1.45 GB requested (including padding), 214.67 GB available
Feb 19 08:07:42 My-iMac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[86068]: Copied 27 files (20 bytes) from volume gb.
Feb 19 08:07:51 My-iMac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[86068]: Copied 364 files (229 bytes) from volume Macintosh HD.
Feb 19 08:07:54 My-iMac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[86068]: Starting post-backup thinning
Feb 19 08:11:17 My-iMac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[86068]: Deleted backup /Volumes/TimeMachine/Backups.backupdb/My iMac/2009-02-18-070723: 214.67 GB now available
Feb 19 08:11:17 My-iMac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[86068]: Post-back up thinning complete: 1 expired backups removed
Feb 19 08:11:17 My-iMac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[86068]: Backup completed successfully.
Feb 19 09:03:08 My-iMac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[86218]: Starting standard backup
Feb 19 09:03:17 My-iMac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[86218]: Backing up to: /Volumes/TimeMachine/Backups.backupdb
Feb 19 09:03:45 My-iMac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[86218]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 1.45 GB requested (including padding), 214.67 GB available
Feb 19 09:06:55 My-iMac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[86218]: Copied 58675 files (47 KB) from volume gb.
Feb 19 09:07:18 My-iMac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[86218]: Copied 59142 files (449 KB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Feb 19 09:07:19 My-iMac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[86218]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 1.45 GB requested (including padding), 214.67 GB available
Feb 19 09:07:26 My-iMac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[86218]: Copied 27 files (20 bytes) from volume gb.
Feb 19 09:07:34 My-iMac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[86218]: Copied 364 files (229 bytes) from volume Macintosh HD.
Feb 19 09:07:38 My-iMac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[86218]: Starting post-backup thinning
Feb 19 09:11:01 My-iMac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[86218]: Deleted backup /Volumes/TimeMachine/Backups.backupdb/My iMac/2009-02-18-080738: 214.67 GB now available
Feb 19 09:11:01 My-iMac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[86218]: Post-back up thinning complete: 1 expired backups removed
Feb 19 09:11:02 My-iMac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[86218]: Backup completed successfully.
Feb 19 10:03:08 My-iMac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[86374]: Starting standard backup
Feb 19 10:03:17 My-iMac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[86374]: Backing up to: /Volumes/TimeMachine/Backups.backupdb
Feb 19 10:03:48 My-iMac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[86374]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 1.45 GB requested (including padding), 214.67 GB available
Feb 19 10:07:14 My-iMac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[86374]: Copied 58683 files (36 KB) from volume gb.
Feb 19 10:07:52 My-iMac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[86374]: Copied 66813 files (522 KB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Feb 19 10:07:53 My-iMac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[86374]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 1.45 GB requested (including padding), 214.67 GB available
Feb 19 10:08:00 My-iMac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[86374]: Copied 27 files (20 bytes) from volume gb.
Feb 19 10:08:08 My-iMac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[86374]: Copied 369 files (229 bytes) from volume Macintosh HD.
Feb 19 10:08:11 My-iMac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[86374]: Starting post-backup thinning
Feb 19 10:11:52 My-iMac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[86374]: Deleted backup /Volumes/TimeMachine/Backups.backupdb/My iMac/2009-02-18-090731: 214.67 GB now available
Feb 19 10:11:52 My-iMac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[86374]: Post-back up thinning complete: 1 expired backups removed
Feb 19 10:11:53 My-iMac /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[86374]: Backup completed successfully.

Hi, and welcome to the forums.
First, it's easier to monitor backups via the +Time Machine Buddy+ widget. It shows the messages from your logs for one TM backup run at a time, in a small window.
It's not unusual for TM to do what seem to be double backups. When it first starts, TM looks at the +File System Event Store,+ a log kept by OSX of all changes to the file system on your disk. It then estimates the size needed, and begins the process. When it finishes it's pre-backup "thinning," if any, and copying of changed items, it then checks again for any changes made during the backup, and does a quick copy of those items.
TM does occasionally get something wildly wrong about counts and file sizes, as it clearly has for you. Sometimes this seems to be a problem in the File System itself, so I'd suggest you use Disk Utility (in your Applications/Utilities folder) to do a +Verify Disk+ on your internal HD. If it shows any errors, post back if you don't know how to use your Leopard install disk to fix them.
While you're at it, a +Repair Permissions+ wouldn't be a bad idea (takes quite a while -- at least 20 minutes).
You might also want to download the TimeTracker app, from www.charlessoft.com.
It shows most of the files saved by TM for each backup (excluding some hidden/system files, etc.). This may give you some clues as to what's actually being backed-up on each run.
Give those things a shot and let us know the results.

Time machine deleted all my HD files

Hey,
So im pretty new to mac so bare with me..
I have a 2TB hard drive that i used to store my files from my PC and when i plugged it into my mac for the first time it asked me if i wanted it to be used for my time machine. Thinking that it would just save my back up into the Hard drive i clicked 'Yes'.
Then after completing the back up i noticed all my files on the HD have dissapeared and its only my files from the time machine..
Is there anyway that i can access these files again? Or use my HD as a normal HD again? My PC wont even recognize it anymore.
Plleeaassee heellpp mmee.
Thanks Muchly.

I'm not going to be able to fully answer your question however perhaps I can offer some advice. As a general rule of thumb it's not a good idea to share a backup drive to do double duty. The reason being is if that drive does crash you will have lost not only your backup but other valuable data. External HD's are inexpensive enough these days where it's viable to have multiple HD"s connected to your system.
Also I'm going to direct you to the Time Machine forums where I'd recommend you start by reading the TM FAQ's, there is a lot of valuable information. I would also recommend reposting there. The link to the TM forums is:
https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_os/mac_os_x_v10.6_snow_leopard then click Refine This List and choose Time Machine
Finally I would correct your profile, it indicates you have a Mac Pro, I suspect you are using a MacBook Pro which is a totally different machine. Also input the version of OS X you are on. If you purchased your machine new recently you should be on 10.6.x. You can find this information by clicking the Apple symbol in the upper left of your keyboard and choosing About This Mac.
Best of luck.
Roger

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In my case, I've deleted a lot of system files including desktop wallpapers and stuff, because I split my drive into two partitions, and started running very low on space on my primary partition. Now, I want to go back to two partitions, but I am unable to. Hence I have to format my Mac to do so. What my question is is this. If I use Time Machine after formatting to restore a backup, does that also include system files, like wallpapers and etc., or only user files? What about my keychain, browser data like cookies and other user data from my applications? Does all of that come back too? If it does, then I think that the other system files might come back too, right? I specifically remember deleting files from the Application Support folder. Also, every time after finishing a backup, my disk takes hours for encrypting the backup. Is that normal?
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Malcolm J. Rayfield wrote:
Well, I did not maintain backups before I deleted the files. What then?
Download and reinstall Mavericks from the App Store. It won't delete any user files.
Correction
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Thanks, I tried that and it didn't work. The song files themselves were still locked. However, a friend emailed me with a solution that seems to have done the trick. It involved going through Finder and doing a search for "Music" files, selecting all, and then doing "get info". That showed a "dash" in the "locked" checkbox. First check it, wait until it has processed, then uncheck it, and that did it.
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I'd just use the Time Machine restore function when setting up your new machine. If you don't have the TB>FW adapter, how do you plan to connect to your external drive with your TM backup? You may have to resort to Migration Assistant - but it would be helpful if you had the TB>Ethernet adapter so that you could hardwire both machines to your router - going wireless is going to take a long, long time. If your external has a USB port, you could use that for a TM restore...
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Yesterday, while downloading the new OSX Mountain Lion I did a backup to an external hard drive with time machine. For some reason I apparently ejected the HD while the backup wasn't complete. Today while installing Mountain Lion I had two unpleasant surprises, first I couldn't install because it said my disk needed repair so I had to format it, second when I did recover from backup I realized my last backup was incomplete.
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Hi,
Thanks a lot!
I will do so at once.
Cheers,
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