Time Machine, how do I restore individual emails?

I would like to restore some emails i deleated but i have no idea how to do this. I don't seem to be able to open up the email backup to get at just the seperate emails. Should i restore the entire mail backup to lets say documents and then go get what i want?

Have the Mail.app active on your Desktop and then click the Dock's TM icon. This should bring up the TM browser with the Mail windows going back in time. Locate your missing Mail items and use Restore tab to recover them.

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Hi,
I backup both my G5 and a connected external HD (Ryuk) - using Time Machine - to a backup HD (G5 Backup). Ryuk has just died. How do I restore Ryuk's contents from the G5 Backup - using Time Machine - temporarily to the G5 until I get a replacement drive for Ryuk [I need to access data that was stored on Ryuk and also want to have another complete copy].
Obviously when Ryuk was alive and well, I could see it in Finder when using Time Machine. Now it has ceased to be - Time Machine knows not of its presence. The G5 Backup contains all of Ryuk's data - neatly stored in many little folders - but I need these in one single incarnation of Ryuk before it popped its clogs.
So can this be done using Time Machine or is there some manual way of doing this?
Cheers, B.
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Welcome to the discussions!
Since the external drive is non-operational, there are probably two possibilities here:
1) A electrical component in the external drive package failed, but the drive itself may be OK. To find out, the drive must be pulled and placed in a separate enclosure. If the drive itself is OK, you should be able to access the disk for your information.
2) If the drive itself failed, you will need to take the drive apart to access the actual disk. A data restoration service may possibly be able to retrieve the data from the disk by mounting it in another drive.
I would suggest that you start by consulting a professional data restoration service to explore your options. Check with the local computer repair shop, and if they don't perform this service, they will be able to refer you to a company that does.

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Just put in a new hard drive in a MacBook Pro. I did a install of Snow Lepord.
How do I restore my Time Machine copy and can I use a older one?
Also, lost my airport say can't get a IP address? Has worked fine for the last year...?

Your best bet is probably to just do a full system restore, per #14 in Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions. Note: that will restore the copy of OSX from your backups, overlaying the recent Snow Leopard installation.
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The simpliest way to restore Apple Mail emails is to make sure that Apple Mail is the active application running on your OS X Desktop. Then click the Time Machine icon on the OS X menu bar, and then, select the "Enter Time Machine" option. Time Machine should open with a number of Apple Mail windows with copies of your email messages over time.

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This the Activation Lock. Read here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5818
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2. in the finder, go to /Library/Preferences and find a file named com.apple.mail.plist and select it
3. in the Time Machine Menu in the Menu Bar, go to Enter Time Machine
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HI,
I HAD A POWER FAILURE AND I HAD TO RESTART MY IMAC AND THEN I NOTICE THAT
THE CABINET FOR NEAT WORKS WAS MISSING. SO I WENT INTO TIME MACHINE AND
TRIED TO RESTORE, BUT INSTEAD I GOT THIS MESSAGE: " The operation can’t be
completed because you don’t have permission to access “Neat Library
2012.nrmlib”. THERE IS NO PASSWORD NEEDED AND I CAN RESTORE OTHER FILES.
THIS NEAT WORKS CABINET (LIBRARY) HAS 300 PLUS MEGABITS OF INFO, SO HOW DO
I GET IT BACK?
I TALK TO NEAT WORKS PEOPLE AND TRIED, THEY SAID THE PROBLEM IS TIME
MACHINE. SO WHAT IS ONE TO DO?
JIM SCOTT
[email protected]

It sounds like it's not finding any destination drive(s), as that's the next selection (see #14 in the Frequently Asked Questions *User Tip* at the top of this forum).
Your backups are most likely fine; if it showed you a list, then they're there (and the "magic" of TM is, every backup is, in effect, a full one, even if many old ones have been deleted).
Select Utilities from the menubar again, then +Disk Utility+ and be sure the new drive appears and is set up properly. On the first line (with the name and size) it must have the GUID *Partition Map Scheme* for an Intel Mac; or the +Apple Partition Map+ for a PPC Mac.
On the second line, indented, it should have the +Mac OS Extended (Journaled)+ Format.

I accidentally combined all of my photos on iphoto to be one event. i have it the way i want it saved on my external harddrive from time machine. how do i make my computer go back to that

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Time Machine: How to check that it's working?

hey guys, i just ran Time Machine for the first time and it looks like everything worked ok. it completed the backup and will run another backup in 20 minutes. i was just wondering how i can check that my files are actually being backed up in case i had to restore the files. how would i go about restoring the files by the way? i can't see an option to do this.
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ThunderCon wrote:
ok i had a look at that, but couldn't find an answer to this:
i just noticed that my time machine drive is 4gb smaller than my mac internal HDD. is there any reason for this?
Yes, as softwater and others have said, Time Machine does skip some things, such as system work files, most caches and logs, etc. The size of all that varies widely from time to time, but is usually several GBs.
See the tan box in Time Machine - Frequently Asked Question #11 for the gory details.
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but doesn't Time Machine create a bootable copy of the hard drive anyway?
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if the hard drive died, wouldn't Time Machine be able to restore everything?
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it only seems to want me to back up to my crashed HD which I have no intention of using

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