Time machine & Logic

Time machine sees old Logic files but only restores the graphic, not the actual midi and other information. Is there something I should know?

Hm, it should backup the entire most recent project?
I personally don't use Time Machine for Logic anymore. It's easier if I just manually move my Logic folder to my external drive every now and then. I've had some Time Machine trouble there too (for all my other apps and files it works perfectly fine).

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Logic Pro, Apple Loops, and Restoring from Time Machine

I recently had to restore my Mac from a Time Machine backup, and like most things touched by Apple, the restoration worked flawlessly for all my stuff, with a few exceptions. Some 3rd party apps I use had problems with file permissions but most of it was quickly sorted out in under half an hour.
However, Logic Pro refuses to see the Apple Loops I have installed on my system. My Loops are stored in two folders at the following locations:
/Library/Audio/Apple Loops/Apple/Apple Loops for Soundtrack/
/Library/Audio/Apple Loops/Apple/Apple Loops for Soundtrack Pro/
GarageBand has no problem seeing these, but Logic Pro can't find them, and won't let me show it where they are. The Apple Loop Utility found them alright, although I did have to show it where the files were kept. Any idea what's wrong?

You may need to rebuild the loops index.
Open up Logic and display the Loops Browser
Open up FInder and locate the folder containing the loops as you describe
Drag the loops folders onto the Loops Browser
That will rebuild the index and all should be well.
Pete

Had a recent crash on my macbook, was previously using OS 10.6 I think. Restored from recent Time Machine backup and updated to OS 10.8.2 and now I cannot open Logic Pro 9. I get a 'No entry' Icon and a not supported on this type of Mac message. I cannot

Had a recent crash on my macbook, was previously using OS 10.6 I think. Restored from recent Time Machine backup and updated to OS 10.8.2 and now I cannot open Logic Pro 9. I get a 'No entry' Icon and a not supported on this type of Mac message. I cannot update either as anything up to 9.1.1 tells me I don't need it yet 9.1.2 tells me I need an eligable Logic Pro Version was not found in applications.
All of my files are stored in a separate hard drive with only the actual app having been on my Macbook. Should I just reinstall?

Hi
To run Mouitain Lion you need to update Logic.
For the updaters to work the Logic application must be:
a) Within the Applications folder, and not in any sub-folder
b) Named "Logic Pro" with no extra numbers or spaces
CCT

Does time machine see a new comp the same way as a comp with new logic b

I've been dealing with this a number of days. my computer got a new hard drive and a new logic board as well as lcd display. I can reformat and start backing up my computer, but i can't access my backups on my time machine. From posts i see there is an issue with having a logic board replaced and time machine thinks its a new computer so you have to use the terminal to type commands to get it to work with your computer again. (which i have tried unsuccessfully to do.) But on the forum I see that its not an issue for getting a new computer for you to access your time machine and migrate your information over. What is the difference if both are seen as a new machine by time machine? I have mainly some photos i would like to get off my back up. Thank goodness I have some of them backed up on dvds but there are still many on my back up that I can't get to . Thanks.

Vivienne,
Obviously, you have the Mac up and running again, but you are using a fresh User Account. Correct? One that is missing all of your old data (Music/Pictures/Email/Contacts, etc...)?
What happens if you do the following:
*Using Time Machine After Initial Launch of New Mac*
If you have already created a User Account on the new Mac using a DIFFERENT Username and Password from the old Mac, then do the following:
Attach the hard disk containing the previous Macs' Time Machine backups to the new computer.
Go to Applications --> Utilities --> and launch Migration Assistant.
At the welcome dialogue click "Continue." You may be required to enter your Admin password.
For Migration Method choose "From a Time Machine backup or other disk".
Select the hard disk containing the previous Time Machine backups. (Give Migration Assistant some time as it scans the disk for eligible data to migrate.)
Now select which User Accounts you would like to migrate over.
However, if you have already created a User Account on the new Mac using the SAME Username and Password as the old Mac, then you will need to do this:
Create a new User Admin Account on the new Mac with a completely unique name.
Backup any important files that have been created using the first User Account on the new Mac.
Now, delete the first User Account you created on the new Mac - The one that is identical to the old Mac.
Finally, use Migration Assistant as described above to move the old User Account data over from the Time Machine backups.
*Full Backup After Restore*
Bear in mind that in all cases Time Machine will perform a full backup after a full restore. This is normal. Time Machine will resume incremental backups after the full backup has completed. To view previous backups, Control-click or right-click the Time Machine icon in your Dock or Option-click the Time Machine menu extra and Choose "Browse Other Time Machine Disks," then select your previous backup volume. You will enter Time Machine and be able to browse your previous back ups and restore files. (http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1338)
Let us know if this was helpful.
Cheers!

New Logic Board - Time Machine wants to create a new backup

This has me stumped. I just got a new hard drive and logic board from Apple. Plugged my external hard drive into my computer, turned time machine off and 'Entered Time Machine' to copy files over back to my computer. All worked as advertised.
Once I had some of my files copied over, I went to turn time machine on. Time Machine informed me that I didn't have enough space on my hard drive (it wants ~94 gigs free and it has 30 free, but it should have been able to delete the oldest backup, free up some space, and we should have moved on). At no point did it ask me if I wanted to reuse the backup or not.
I then wondered if it needed to get further along the backup process before prompting me to reuse the volume or not. So, I excluded like 98% of my hard drive and made the backup ~3 gigs. The backup happened, but now in my Backups.backupdb I have a MyComputer which contains all of my old time machine backups, and a MyComputer_2 which contains this last backup.
I trashed the MyComputer_2 folder and 'Entered Time Machine'. It pulled from the correct place and I saw my backups trailing back into history, but apparently I no longer have permission to view the desktop folder as well as the other 'protected' folders in my backed up home folder. I repaired permissions on the off chance that it would fix it, but it didn't.
Something is clearly broken, do the masses have any suggestions? I found multiple suggestions for how to deal with this under 10.5, but nothing about 10.6.
Thank You,
Zac

zac850 wrote:
But what if I want to reuse my backup? How would I go about doing that? I trashed the time machine plist file (the only one i found was "Macintosh HD/Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist") in the hopes that after a restart I would be prompted to reuse the backup. No luck.
I don't know why you didn't get the "reuse" prompt, but that wouldn't prevent a new, full backup. You have a new internal HD. Even if it has the same name as the old one, Time Machine knows it's a different disk, so will back up everything on it. You cannot prevent that.
Your first problem is, you didn't transfer things onto the new drive properly (Apple Stores often give bad or misleading advice on that.)
And, you may have corrupted your backups by "trashing" the MyComputer_2 folder. Apple doesn't do a very good job of warning folks: +*never move, change, or delete anything in your backups+* via the Finder.
Try to repair them, per #A5 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum).
If that works, your best bet is probably to do a full system restore, per #14 in Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum).
You obviously had a problem with your Mac; depending on what happened and when, it's possible that damaged your installation of OSX and/or some of your data. If your last backup(s) were done after that started, the corruption may have been backed-up.
If that's a possibility, and you do the restore properly, but it fails, try it again, but select an earlier backup.

After having the logic board replaced, Time Machine will no longer backup my computer to the same backup files as before.

After having the logic board replaced due to bad NVidia chip, my Time Machine will no longer backup my computer to the current backup. Is there a way to reset something to get Time Machine to continue to use the same backup files as before for this laptop?

As far as TM is concerned you have a new computer, so it will make a new backup. If you don't have the space for both backups then erase your backup drive before backing up the computer.

Using time machine to backup Logic Projects

Hi
I was wondering if it is possible to use time machine to backup my Logic Projects. I have a seperate internal drive that I use to keep all my user data on, like my Logic projects. I want to use time machine to back up these projects onto a external firewire drive.
Can timemachine only backup your systems drive and therefore I would need to have my Logic projects based stored on it?

Yes - time machine can back up any drive. I am using 3 drives: system drive, a USB2 drive for Time machine backups and a firewire 800 drive for Logic Studio projects, instruments, samples, audio, etc. TM backs up my system and FW drives to the USB drive.
Time machine options (in system preferences) allow you to exclude/include drives so you just need to set it to include your second internal drive.
The only thing I'm not sure of is whether this effects the loop browser. Oddly, when I was experimenting with using aliases for Apple loops, Logic actually found the TM backup files when it couldn't locate the original GB loops! After some file moving and index deleting I cleared all loops but now I have duplicate entries again in Logic - possibly due to TM, but I have not verified this.
-Scott

Time Machine Restore After New Logic Board

Older iMac (2009) had hard drive and logic board replaced. Running latest system (10.10.2) before and after logic board replacement.
When attempting to restore from a Time Machine backup made prior to the new logic board, although the iMac sees the Time Capsule and the "Data" file, attempts to proceed with the restore are met with error message "There was a problem connecting to the server [name of Time Capsule] - contact your administrator."
Any experience with this issue? Anybody successfully perform a restore following a new logic board?
Thanks very much.

I would refer you to visit Pondini's Time Machine FAQ for help with Time Machine and full system restore. It also provides instruction on how to restore a backup from another system or Time Machine backup drive.

Working from Logic files on old Time Machine back up

Hi there.
Apologies if this is a bit a newbie question, I'm not new to apple, but new to using Time Machine in these circumstances.
This is my issue. I have a 2.0ghz Dual core 500GB hd iMac in my semi pro music studio. I back up to a 1TB hd using Time Machine. The iMac was beginning to get very slow I guessed because it was 470 gb full, so I made sure the back up was completed, then I did a complete fresh install of Snow Leopard (up from Leopard).
All good so far.
Now, everything back up and running, reinstalled Logic Studio, all plug ins etc etc, but I wanted to keep the computer fairly clear of files etc, so I was hoping to be able to work from the timemachine files. Now I guess I shouldn't use the same external hd with time machine now because it will start backing up the new almost empty Snow Leopard version. But here's the issue. I open a Logic Session from the back up and it all works, plays, I can make edits to the midi, audio, but as soon as I want to save I get a series of spool and permissions error messages. It seems to work if I save the file to my desktop and work from there though. But then I don't have this saved on an HD...
Does any one have any suggestions here?
Would it work if I bought a new hd, plugged them both into a USB hub, imported tracks I want to use from the old hd and time back up using time machine to a new hd?
To add another spin to the issue, I am also using a 15" i7 Quad MacBookPro. I want to use this in place of the iMac however I already have a USB input shortage (3 on my iMac version) and use a 2nd monitor. My macbook has the thunderbolt port... Does anyone know of any hubs using Thuderbolt?

Lloyd Elis wrote:
How do i delete & reformat my time machine external back up drive & start reusing it again as a time machine back up facility??
Welcome to Leopard Forums:
If you repartition your drive it's quick and works fine.
Using disk utility, create two partitions on the drive and then repartition into a single partition.
When creating two partitions, be sure to overrun the existing data. You should get a warning about losing all data, which is what you want.
Leave everything else alone.
Message was edited by: nerowolfe

Will time machine do a full backup of external volume (extra storage) after new logic board?

I have a MacBook Pro running leopard, that just had the logic board replaced. I haven't picked it up yet, but I am told that my hard drive and data were not touched.
I have read Pondini's very helpfull info/site, so I know that time machine will want to start a new set of backups.
Here is my question, based on my setup: in addition to the internal HD, I have a firewire drive for additional storage of files. Time machine backs up both volumes to another, larger, FireWire drive
Now, after the new logic board, will time machine make a whole new copy of the external storage drive as well as the internal? Or just the internal?
Basically, I know time machine will think it's on a new machine, but will it treat the external storage as if it were new as well?
I would appreciate any help or advice you can give me. Thanks.

Still no answer? I do have the same trouble on my iMac G5 PPC with 10.5.8: I just replaced the MOB and Time Machine insists to create a new bkup! Attempted with "tmutil" command but doesn't work on my OS...it is really impossible to tell the machine to learn the new address? I DON'T want to believe it!
Tks for any help

Problems w/Time Machine after logic board replaced

Early January 2013 Apple replaced my logic board in my MacBook Pro. Just the other day I had a reason to go the first of February 2013 to find something in My Documents. There was NOTHING in Time Machine after January 3rd! When I got my computer back I noticed My Passport icon was yellow. Didn't know what that meant--but now I see probably something!
In trying to fix this problem I followed an Apple instruction which backed up SOMETHING ... but not in Time Machine because now there is nothing in it! The instruction was under the heading "Attempt to repair your Time Machine's backup - using an external hard drive to store backups."
I would very much appreciate some direction to try to fix this. THANK YOU!

Hello again: Following the link above, I didn't see the examples that were shown so I put "Migration Assistant" in spotlight, it appeared and I followed what looked to be like what I should be doing . It took about a half hour. I really don't know what it was doing, other than Time Machine seems to be working again. But where are all the things it was transferring for a half hour? I am totally confused but just hope My Passport is still okay -- and that I don't really have to have anything from the past!
Thank you.

How to restore all Logic files from a Time Machine backup

Hello-
I recently had to clear all of the memory on my laptop, in order to free up some room. It was running very slow, and I had far too much clutter on there. I have a MacBook, and back everything up on Time Capsule, so I've spent the past couple of days individually retrieving all of the files that I want on my computer. I naively thought that I could click on the Logic Pro application from a previous backup, but failed to realize that I have to find the drivers and other components that make up the software. Where can I locate all of these files, and how would you recommend going about restoring all of my projects, drivers, etc.? Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

Smart mailboxes are not a storage location, they are just a kind of saved search. There's not really anything to restore if you can't restore the messages.
As to your difficulty restoring mail, see the [Time Machine FAQ|http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1964018] and [Time Machine Troubleshooting|http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2057525] guides. Also, try posting on the TM forums for better help.

How do I restore my Logic to how I had it 24 hours ago and it is backed up in time machine?

I installed some loops and samples into logic 9 by dragging and dropping the folder into the logic interface. now my logic loop/libray bin is clutered and the loops do not work. I just want logic to look and behave like it did before I dragged these loops into it. I have backups via time machine. How do I restore to how it was before? when I launch logic and then time machine it jsut goes to the desktop view of time machine?

It's not the Logic app that you need to restore..
You could restore all the various files, caches and so on that have been changed by what you did but..
It's hard to know exactly what has been changed so....
It is simplier just to restore your entire System Drive..
Start Mac while holding down CMD + R
This boots your Mac up in Mountain Lion's Recovery Mode (You can release the keys when you see the Apple Symbol on the screen)
Select Restore From Time Machine Backup
Choose the HD where your backups reside
Choose the date of the backup from just prior to when you 'messed' things up..
Restore...
Be aware that you will lose everything you have created since that date as your Mac will look exactly as it did on the date of the backup.. so manually copy anything important that you created after that date (exluding anything stored in iCloud) to a spare ext HD before doing this proceedure!

Logic Board replaced, Time Machine wont recognize old backups

I just got my Logic Board replaced and obviously having the problem with Time Machine recognizing old backups. I looked at old forums and found the macosxhints page (http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20080128003716101) on how to fix the problem but when I try to enter cd /Volumes/Time Machine/Backups.backupdb into terminal it gives me a message saying "no such file or directory" i dont know where to go from here any help would be appreciated thanks for your time

instead of Time Machine in that command you should enter "name of your TM drive" (put the name of your TM drive there and KEEP THE QUOTES). However, as you seem to be unfamiliar with terminal you will very likely have further problems following that hint. Try this one instead
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20081216145458979&query=%2Bfsaclctl

How does time machine affect programs? ala Logic?

Say I do a software update and it stinks, buggy, et-cetera, how would I grab Logic from TIME MACHINE and use that version (pre update) or does it update the whole computer? I'm thinking its not sophisticated enough (TM) to know that if I grab LOGIC that it needs to grab the preferences, package receipts, application support as well as the LOGIC application itself. If you do have to restore the desktop (ALL) again, is there a better way than time machine or can you somehow use time machine.
• Or is it that sophisticated?
Thanks!

Time Machine is almost like a clone with archival capabilities. It will store a minimumal restorable version of your system on the backup drive with all the preferences, kernel extensions, and files and applications. Time machine is sophisticated enough to understand for a few Apple applications how to restore addresses, e-mail, and other files back into their applications from an archive. However, the only restore that I've read it is able to restore an application is an entire hard disk restore much like restoring a clone. This is especially true if the application is divided into drivers, extensions, preferences, and plugins across the hard drive.

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