Time Machine Recovery

I'm planning on deleting the whole system to speed up my computer, I was wondering if I use time machine to recover my setting, will it update it just as it is now? or will I have to reinstall some apps? Currently I'm having some problems with the reduce transparency setting and the start up its taking longer than usual after the latest OS X update.

It's likely that one of your login items is causing the problem. Select the Login Items tab in the Users & Groups pane of System Preferences. If there is an item named "cDock" or "Duet," delete it. Otherwise, delete any items that you don't recognize. If you're not sure which ones to delete, double-click each to test it.

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  • Not a valid photoshop document after time machine recovery and reinstall of photoshop

    After a time machine recovery most of my photoshop documents recovered fine, however there are a select few (and my most recent work unfortuantely) that seem corrupt. It isn't all of my documents. Trying to recover them again from back-up doesn't seem to be working. I did have to reinstall photoshop CS4 after the recovery.
    I have seen similar questions on here but none of the solutions have worked. I've tried opening with other programs, I've tried changing the file extentions etc. If the files were just corrupt recovering them from time machine should fix the problem. Many thanks if you can assist.

    SaveChaos wrote:
    …but it doesn't feel like corrupt files are the problem…
    If it's only a few selected files that are misbehaving but others do open without problems, then you do have file corruption in each of those files.
    Go back in time machine to the earliest possible date after each file was created and restore only that particular version of the file.
    If that doesn't work, then considered the files irretrievably lost.  What kind of error message do they return when you try to open them?
    In any event, it's imperative that you check the SMART status of your drive and Repair Drive (or at least Verify Drive) to check for a failing drive.
    As an aside, taking a belt-and-suspender approach, it's my practice to supplement Time Machine with a clone of my working drive and daily backups of my files.  For some reason, I've had three Time Machine disks fail on three different Macs and locations in the last six months or so. 
    I had Time Machine disabled on all my Macs until I decided to give it one more test run on a 65-lb Mac Pro recently.  I'm not convinced one way or another yet, so all other Macs still have TM disabled for now. Time Machine is very intrusive, and the external TM drives run much, much hotter than external storage files—always a troubling sign in my book.

  • Time Machine Recovery (after data recovery)

    Several months ago, Disk2 and Disk3 in my 2007 MacPro 1,1 (OSX 10.7.5) became unreadable by the computer. To make matters worse, the Time Machine external backup became equally as unreadable. All at the same time! Drive 1, with the operating system, seems to be unaffected. The two unreadable drives showed up as "media" in disk utility, but didn't show up in Disk Warrior or any other similar programs (partition repairing) using the "terminal." I sent the Time Machine drive (WD Mybook Essential 3Tb) to DataRecovery.com and they found no phyical issues with the drive. There was, however,"Data Corruption in the file tables and data area" (according to the evaluation report). This was corrected and the TM drive was supposedly completely recovered.
    Upon receiving the external drive (now replaced by a newer 3Tb Mybook), I replaced disk2 and disk3 with new 1TB drives (formatted with a single partition) and tried to perform a restore for these two drives. No such luck.....The drive was readable by the computer but would not actually enter into "Time Machine." I examined the actual drive and found an inordinate amount of Unix executable files, especially when going into the individual backups. The drive does show that they recovered 870Gb of information, but nothing seems to be readable much less recoverable.
    I'm wondering if there is a workaround for any of this or whether I should contact the data recovery people to resolve this. I appreciate any help on this as it's become expensive and a bit deflating.......I still hold out some hope, though. Thanks. The drives were most likely corrupted by a generator that kicks on once a week (automatic maintenance) and temporarily cuts power long enough to turn the computer off...I've since gotten a UPS.

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  • Some iPhoto pictures missing after time machine recovery, were there errors reported during backup that I missed?

    Hello. I used time machine/time capsule to automatically back up my sytem over the last 3 years and I used the backups to recover my system to a new hard drive when the original drive began to fail. After recovery, I noticed there are missing photos in iPhoto.
    I'm curios where I should look to see why they weren't backed up, and why it wasn't obvious to me at the time that they weren't backed up.
    Does time machine explicitly call out issues when it can't back up a file or does it just squirrel a message away in the system log?
    I'd like to know because I'd like avoid this issue going forward.
    Full disclosure & History -
    The hard drive on my late 2009 27" iMac was exhibiting issues and started to go bad. No problem I thought, I'll get a new one and recover the system from my time capsule.
    The full recovery was initiated from the OS install media. Upon recovery, the system wouldn't boot. After booting from the OS install media and reinstalling the OS on top of the recovered data the system booted and seemed to retain almost everything. This may not be the best way to recover but it seemed to work.
    I additionally had to:
    repatch the OS
    reinstall iWork
    relicense MS Office (otherwise office seemed to be intact)
    When I started looking through my iPhoto libraries, there were some events with no pictures (mostly the newer events). I couldn't find the pictures on the time capsule either so I'm curios if there was anyway I could have known that backups weren't completing successfully. I had run a time machine incremental backup before pulling out the old hard drive and it seemed to complete successfully so I'm at a loss. I can understand that as the hard drive began to fail, there may have been issues backing up the data, but I somehow missed it if/when the problems were reported.
    Should I go through the old system logs that were backed up on the time capsule and look for backupd messages/errors? Going forward, how do I know if there are backup issues?
    It took me a couple weeks to realize the drive was failing. I had noticed that the system performance was getting bad, and the system would occassionally hang. It would come back OK after a restart. I thought it was because the filesystem was getting close to full (30GB left on a 1 TB drive) so I was chasing down cleaning up some data to make more room. There were suggestions in other forums to try and keep the filesystem 10% free.
    While moving data from the internal drive to a new external drive (to free up space) the system would hang. I eventually found a couple disk0 errors in the kernel log and I actually witnessed disk0 disappear while running an iostat. I'm thinking it took me too long to know the disk was going bad, and so the pictures I imported over the last 3-4 weeks may be gone.
    I still have the original drive so I'll see if anything else can be salvaged from it.
    Looking for some suggestions on
    1) the ability to know if time machine backups are successful and are in sync with my system
    2) the ability to know when there are hardware issues that I should be aware of
    If you got to this point, thanks for taking the time to read through all this.
    Regards,
    -mike

    Hi Mike,
    I just saw this post and saw no one has responded.  You might have figured out but in case, I wanted to let you know what I found out.  I had the same problem.  Hard drive failure, they installed a new one and my iPhoto pictures were missing.  I couldn't find them on Time Machine either which baffled (and frustrated) me b/c I just backed up my drive and I was missing pictures from over a year ago. 
    I found this article and it allowed me to at least find my pictures...so they weren't lost after all. 
    https://discussions.apple.com/message/16029742#16029742
    As for why they aren't showing up in iPhoto or Time Machine, the lady at the Mac store said it is probably an OS conflict.  Which makes sense since I can see the actual pictures in the iPhoto content file (per the article mentioned above).  However, I didn't have my computer with me at the store to have a Genius person help me resolve the conflict.
    BUT, if you can find the pictures, then maybe you can reimport them into iPhoto?  Just a thought.
    Good luck!

  • Time Machine Recovery Fails at ~85%

    I have a mid-2010 13" MacBook Pro running Mavericks, and a new 2 TB Time Capsule. I'm trying to install a new internal SSD to replace the four-year old one it came with. I swapped the new SSD in with no trouble, and booted my computer into Internet Recovery. I selected the option to rebuild my machine based on a Time Machine backup, and it churns away for a while until it hits about 85% installed, and then it reboots (and fails to startup properly, giing me a spinner on the gray apple screen).
    The new SSD is twice the size of the old one. I've put it in an external enclosure and mounted it, ran disk utility on it to make sure that it's working properly. I can't think what else to do, and I can't imagine why it fails at the same point in the rebuild every time!
    Any thoughts would be much appreciated!

    It sounds like you're booting from internet recovery and then running time machine restore.  You should try internet recovery followed by install, when setup assistant runs then point that to your time machine backup.  I'm not a huge fan of wifi based restores.  Good luck.

  • Time Machine recovery from Mavericks

    First I backup all my data to Time Capsule using Time Machine.  Then I upgraded from Snow Leapard
    to Mavericks.  Now when I go to Time machine I can not find my backups.  It this because Mavericks
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    Yes, this did work. I booted to the Mavericks recovery drive and pulled the backup off of Time Capsule and resolved the issue.

  • Time machine recovery issue with passwords and logins

    I have 2008 MBA running 10.9 which had hardrive fail, reinstall from 10.6 DVD recovery all info from time machine backup, had to reset passwords,then ran s/w update (app store didn't work from recovered s/w) now I can't login. Takes my account password looks like it is logging in but goes back to login screen. HAve repaired permissions, reset pram, started in single user mode which shows more info then I understand but saw line:
    dyld: shared cached file was built against a different libSystem.dylib, ignoring cache
    I think I have system componetnts missmached but not sure how to recover using the time machine backup.

    Went through wiping the disk but added a second partition. Went through all the install again and after s/w update moves it from 10.6 to 10.6.8 needed to do the 10.7 upgrade in will not let me login ( yes had to reset password).  Apple needs to do better then thes crappy diskless installs. If I had a 10.9 disk I would have been up and going without wasting my weekend.

  • Time Machine recovery is missing last 6 months.

    My SSD drive died and no data is recoverable from it. Fortunately I have had Time Machine running for years, so there should be an up-to-date backup. (It always is turned on. In fact I used it a few months ago to retrieve earlier versions of a fine, so I know it was working.)
    However when I tried to use the disk recovery partition and recovery from Time Machine, it says the last complete backup was Jan 31. It recovers everything up to that date, but nothing for the past 6 months. I tried a system re-install followed by Migration Assistant from the Time Machine disk, but the same thing happens. Looking at the Time Machine file (using Show Package Contents) there are no files after Jan 31.
    I am mystified as to how I might recover the missing files for the past 6 months and would appreciate any advice.

    Thanks Bob. I gave that a try but it cannot find any other backups.
    I have not paid the $20 to ask AppleCare for advice yet, because I suspect they will just tell me that since the Time Machine files and bands last mod date was Jan 31 then nothing was backed up after that.

  • After Time Machine Recovery Safari can access internet but Chrome not?!

    a) Full System Recovery via Time Machine from a MBA Full Backup to a new MBPro
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    Proxy Settings are "*.local" only ....
    Anyone any idea/hints ??!

    a) Full System Recovery via Time Machine from a MBA Full Backup to a new MBPro
    b) After recovery I am able to access via Safari (and AppStore!) to any web site but any other application is not able to.. Chrome, Temps, Dropbox App whatever are saying that there is no internet connection ??!!
    Proxy Settings are "*.local" only ....
    Anyone any idea/hints ??!

  • New hard drive and time machine recovery

    I am planning to install a new ram and hard drive on my macbook in few days. I have been backing up the system through time machine for about a year.
    My question is once I install the new hardware how do I install everything through the time machine??? Does time machine back up software as well? Would I need recovery DVDs? Would I need product keys and so on? or is it as easy as simply after installation of the hardware, turn on the computer with the time machine connected and it'll do everything and my computer would be back to what it was previously?

    level i wrote:
    I am planning to install a new ram and hard drive on my macbook in few days. I have been backing up the system through time machine for about a year.
    My question is once I install the new hardware how do I install everything through the time machine???
    see this link for instructions
    http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1964018#14
    Does time machine back up software as well?
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  • IMac keeps shutting down after Time Machine recovery

    I have a late 2007 iMac. The hardrive died, so I installed a new SSD. I have a Time Machine backp on a usb drive and aslo a bootable usb drive created a couple of months ago. I installed Maverics on the new SSD (I was running Maverics before as well), and up to this point everything worked fine. Than I started from Recovery Drive and run Recovery from Time Machine. It seemed to be working fine, but after it was done, the iMac shut down. Now every time I start it, it chimes, the gray background with apple appears, and it shuts down immediately.I repeated the whole proces twice, same thing happend. I also tried to do migration instead of recovey, which worked,  but that didn't copy all my files, just the program files.
    I have no clue, what to do. Any suggestions?

    I have a late 2007 iMac. The hardrive died, so I installed a new SSD. I have a Time Machine backp on a usb drive and aslo a bootable usb drive created a couple of months ago. I installed Maverics on the new SSD (I was running Maverics before as well), and up to this point everything worked fine. Than I started from Recovery Drive and run Recovery from Time Machine. It seemed to be working fine, but after it was done, the iMac shut down. Now every time I start it, it chimes, the gray background with apple appears, and it shuts down immediately.I repeated the whole proces twice, same thing happend. I also tried to do migration instead of recovey, which worked,  but that didn't copy all my files, just the program files.
    I have no clue, what to do. Any suggestions?

  • Password issue after reinstalling OS X and time machine recovery

    I recently installed a new SSD drive in my unibody macbook (6.1). Installing OS X leopard worked fine. Than recovered my time machine copy, (I was runnng OS X Mavericks). The recovery from time machine did not show any errors, so I assume it went well. When I rebooted my macbook, I saw my existing Macbook-useraccount and my computer asked for my user-account-password.
    Problem: When I typed my user account password, it keeps returning with the "invalid password" message (I tried my Apple (iTunes) user ID password as well, but nothing seems to work.
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    If it's at 10.6.8, you can either redownload Mavericks in the App Store, or... sorry, I forgot what the other option might be!
    Try re-installing the big 10.6.8 Combo...
    http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1399
    Repair Permissions afterwords, reboot.

  • Disk Utility missing after Time Machine Recovery

    My MacPro 2014 had OS 10.9.5 as its operating system and I upgraded to Yosemite, which was a disaster because all the fonts and graphics became blurry (I don't use a Retina Display monitor) which is a known bug waiting to be fixed in an update. I decided to go back to OS 10.9.5 by using Time Machine and Recovery. I recovered the old system onto one of my external hard drives and then used Super Duper to copy that back to my original Mac Pro SSD hard drive. The problem is Disk Utility is missing. It doesn't appear in Spotlight and is not in the Applications/Utility folder. I restarted in Recovery mode and Disk Utility is present there, and I used it to repair the Hard Drive. After restart, still no Disk Utility. Help!!

    If you go to the Purchased section in the Mac App Store is Mavericks available for redownload?
    It is for me but I also had  2009 Mac Mini that upgraded to Mavericks.

  • Server app on Mavericks broken on a Time Machine recovery

    Have installed a replacement hard drive in my iMac and recovered from my most recent Time Machine backup.
    Everything seems to have gone well except for the Server app, which is now unusable.
    On starting Server I get my first error:
    “An error occurred while updating your service data”
    Click continue, spinning wheel in the dialogue box.
    When connecting to server I get a second error; select “This machine”, log in with previous credentials (an admin user):
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    The user is not permitted to administer this server. Make this user an administrator on this server and try again”
    The user account I am using IS an administrator on this computer.
    I’ve tried a full recovery from the Time Machine backup twice now.
    Any suggestions? My thoughts are it could be a Keychain issue, but I'm not sure.

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    Dec 12 17:16:10 --- last message repeated 1 time ---
    Dec 12 17:16:10 mac01.local servermgrd[1695]: [1695] error in getAndLockContext: open returned -1 (errno=1)  file was /private/var/servermgrd//servermgr_config.lock
    Dec 12 17:16:10 mac01.local servermgrd[1695]: [1695] error in getAndLockContext: open returned -1 (errno=1)  file was /private/var/servermgrd//servermgr_certs.lock
    Dec 12 17:16:10 mac01.local servermgrd[1695]: Exception in doCommand for module servermgr_info on thread 0x7ff4fa719bd0: *** setObjectForKey: object cannot be nil (key: identityCertificates)

  • FileVault 2 and Time Machine recovery

    Hi,
    After reading a lot of forum posts about FileVault 2, almost everything seems to be clear to me, but I still have one important question:
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    Thanks in advance

    To answer your question directly, yes, you would be able to purchase a new MacBook and restore from the unencrypted backup. The backup data is not encrypted by default, that is why you can only back up to Time Machine while logged in.
    You can also choose to encrypt your Time Machine backup, in which case you would still be able to do the same thing, it would just require you to enter your Time Machine's password to start the recovery process.

  • Help! Time Machine recovery freezes at 5.3%

    Hi everybody. I'm in it now. I decided to reinstall Leopard since Boot Camp told me that I had to do it in order to partition my 250 GB hard drive to use with Windows XP.
    Anyways. I've tried to recover several times with different Time Machine backup dates, and all of them stops at 5.3% in the recovery. I've tried to let it be, to see how long it froze, and I gave up after over an hour. At the most Time Machine told me the ETA was almost 14 hours!!
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    I KNEW I couldn't trust Time Machine....

    This doesn't help, but I have the same problem. Not including the part about Boot Camp, partitioning my drive, or running Windows XP.
    I did a clean install of Leopard and bought a brand new drive for Time Machine to play on. It seems to enjoy backing up without problem every hour.
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