TM Restore weirdness

I had to send my two-month-old iMac back because of screen problems. Before I did so, I backed it up to my Time Capsule via Time Machine, cloned the drive via CC to a FW drive, then Secure Erased the drive, changed the password, and returned the machine to its out-of-the-box state.
I received it back today. The first thing I did was to change the password back to my original one, and initialised the drive while booted from the install DVD. I then chose Restore From Backup. The Mac found the Time Capsule – but couldn't find the newly-initialised drive. After an hour of faffing around unsuccessfully, I had to connect the Firewire clone and reboot to it.
Then I started over – and the Restore From Backup app still couldn't find the iMac's drive. On a hunch, I powered down a Mac Pro that was ethernetted to the Time Capsule, then reversed through the screens until I got to the first installer screen. Finally, Restore was able to see the hard drive.
As far as I can tell, the Restore was largely successful except that I seem to have lost about 30-40 emails from my Inbox and I had to import the contents of all my existing mailboxes. I can live with that, although I'm pretty unhappy about losing mail.
The weirdest thing of all, though, is that now it has come time for my first post-Restore backup, Time Machine is backing up the entire drive. I made sure to rename the machine and the hard drive correctly so that this problem wouldn't arise.
Overall, I'm disappointed with Time Machine and Restore From Backup. What it's doing now is just a waste of time, energy, and my Time Capsule space. I wouldn't use it again for drive restoration, instead I'll revert to using CCC clones which have served me well in the past.
In fact, I may wipe the drive tomorrow and apply the clone I have, then trash the existing .sparsebundle on the TC and start all over again.
Not one of my better Apple experiences, I have to say.

Thanks for your response, Jeremy. From what you say, it seems that each time you do a System Restore through Time Machine, it will then create what is effectively a duplicate of the very backup you've just restored. IMO this is a waste of drive space, time, and energy.
Although I haven't had the time to try it yet, it seems, on the face of it, that every System Restore, no matter whether it's via Time Machine, Carbon Copy Cloner, SuperDuper, or Disk Utility, will trigger this duplication behaviour by Time Machine. Which is, of course, less than desirable.
Unless those invisible files which track file/directory changes for Time Machine are not themselves backed up by Time Machine – but are backed up in a clone. I'll have to test this...

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6102i, nokia suite and "contacts"

6102i, nokia suite and "contacts"
pc: hp eunning windows xp
software: nokia pc suite 6.81.13.0
old phone nokia 6102i
new phone nokia 6102i (warranty replacement)
how connected: ca-42 data cable
the problem:
backed up the old phone fine but when i tried to restore the stuff to new phone only 21 of contacts restored to new phone.
notes:
i re-started the new phone (pc suite told me to)
the logfile for the backup said it backed up the contacts
the logfile for the restore said contacts were not restored
weird stuff: some of the contacts were restored despite what the restore logfile said
logfile is attached:
thanks in advance for your help
jim
Attachments:
log.txt ‏4 KB

are you sure you have all your contacts in old phone in phone memory (not in SIM?)
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I restored my iPod in the middle of a download, now it can't do anything but restore, and when i restore it, the screen gets stuck on weird things, like the apple screen or purple or yellow. how do i get it un-stuck?

i restored my iPod in the middle of a download, now it can't do anything but restore, and when i restore it, the screen gets stuck on weird things, like the apple screen or purple or yellow. how do i get it un-stuck?

Try:
- iOS: Not responding or does not turn on
- If not successful and you can't fully turn the iPod fully off, let the battery fully drain. After charging for an least an hour try the above again.
- If still not successful that indicates a hardware problem and an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store is in order.

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Hi I restored my system after wiping a hard disk, reinstalling clean system and then upgrading to 10.6.6. I used Set Up assistant to restore from the TM backup. Everything is working OK but I have weird permission settings on many restored files. It means you have to enter admin password for moving and deleting files within the same disk.
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If you change this in the individual file to 'Read & Write' you can then delete or move the file normally. Applying permission to enclosed items from an enclosing folder doesn't sort this , neither does repairing permissions with Disk Utility. To sort it I would have to go through every single file individually.
IS there a way of fixing this without having to reinstall everything again?
Would rebuild directory with Disk Warrior fix this?
Best
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There is a method to reset home folder permissions using the Install DVD. I know Apple has an article on it, but I never can find it. Here is the same thing from MacFixIt: http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-10329971-263.html
Note that the little apostrophe-like marks on the second command are backticks. On a US keyboard, it is the key to the left of the 1, along with ~
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Weird! RAID icons still in the boot screen after restored them back to norm

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The sound on/off button onthe side of my iPhone no longer works, nor do the volume buttons. All sound has disappeared from the phone apart from the Music which still plays. Have tried th Restore and restart phone plus have plugged and unplugged phone jack. No luck - any idea anyone?

One thing that helped was getting a toothbrush and scrubbing the dock connector on the phone. I scrubbed the connector and used compressed air for about 1/2 hour till the connector looked much cleaner. An Apple employee told me that the pins on the phone had a little corrosion and sand. The problem hasn't gone away completely, but has been significantly reduced. I'm going to hold out until my contract expires after which time I'll switch to an iPhone5 (or newer) or Android phone.

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I just ran out of room on my ipod, and something came up saying do you want to create some playlist? I'm not sure exactly what it said, but it was so I can make more room on it. I went through my library and deleted songs I didn't want anymore and I deleted this playlist that my Itunes made by itself. I added my new songs, tried updating my ipod and it won't sync the songs. It says "Songs on the Ipod cannot be synced because all of the playlists selected for syncing no longer exist." I tried restoring it, but another error came up. Nothing works.
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I assume you have seen this article regarding this error message.
iPod: Cannot restore or update in iTunes with error 1415, 1417, 1418, 1428, 1429, 1430, 1436, or 1439
It could be an indication or a damaged or dying hard drive. I would recommend doing a disk diagnostic on the iPod's HD using the instructions given by turingtest2 in this older thread. He also covers what the resulting numbers indicate.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3784647?start=0&tstart=0
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PLEASE HELP! Weird Issue after Restore

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Is this going to show up every time I start the iPhone?

Did you do the restore here in US or in India? That SIM card is looking for at&t service and since it is not available there it gets stuck in that endless loop. Try to put it in airplane mode and see what it tells you. All I can say is just cancel it and sync as you would normally do. Watch out for a huge bill IF you are making calls. Hope you realize that and don't be surprised when the bill arrives.Read up on some of the stories other users here have posted on that issue.

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Right after update visual feedback on app store was simply not there.
You press install, it does not give you the "now installing" feedback. Yet you find out that the program is installed after couple of minutes!
Right after this I started to wish for 6.0.X or so...
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The program run fine, then while the camera was active, Ipad decided to reset itself... over and over and over again...
I did the home and sleep button gimmick, no result... never booted up again but got stuck in reset over and over again mode.
I tried to connect to itunes and recover the pad but not use... The following image is the heartbreaking message from iTunes...
When you press "More Information" you simply get to reach this topic which is seemingly unrelated, yet I posted this here..
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Guys,
I am facing simlar issue. Could you pls let me know if are able to solve your iPad issue. I also download the iPad2_2_4.3.2_8H7_Restore.ipsw and tried to Restore using shift-->Restore and selecting the downloaded file. Following sequence take place:
Extracting software
Verifying iPad information
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Preparing iPad software for restore
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The iPad 'iPad' could not be restored. An unknown error occured(2).
At the end, i'm still not able to Restore my iPad. Pls not that the "Update" option is always disabled and therefore i only get an option to Restore which is not working.
FYI, i am using PC with WinXP Professional with SP3. iTunes latest version 10 and iPad 2 with Wi-Fi and 3G model in India.
Plzzzzz help.
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How do I use time machine backup to restore onto a different computer

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Are you running Yosemite.. because it is the cause of loads of problems.
As to opening the TM backup from another computer.. yes you can.
Please read our TM expert Pondini.
Q14-17 on restore here.
http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html
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I have gone through this with several people.. and I have a post showing a manual file location and restore.
Can't access old files on time capsule
But not from Yosemite.. it has its own bunch of bugs.. as mentioned. Good luck with those.
I also strongly recommend people use a secondary backup method.. there are excellent third party.. I use Carbon Copy Cloner.. it is reasonable price.. $40 based on standard rsync.. and will create either bootable clones to a local drive or sparsebundle on a time capsule etc.
The bootable clone is the ideal way to recover files. since it is based on a simple computer reboot and then access of files that are in exactly the same place as you left them.. TM backs up in a most complicated manner.
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http://pondini.org/TM/Home.html
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Find files in Yosemite.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6681850?searchText=time%20machine%20yosemit e#27139370
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I am not sure why your previous use of TM failed.. In the midst of all its problems it does still work ok.. as mostly people can recover stuff they do.. albeit it needs a lot more messing than is typical Apple.

My MacBook Pro won't let me mount my external Hard Drive. Just trying to restore my iTunes library.

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Some playlists don't show up - weird iPod syncing problems

Apologies if this question has been answered elsewhere - couldn't find the answer when I was searching the boards last night. Don't know if this is an iTunes problem or an issue with the touch...
Last night, I plugged my iPod touch (1G) into my MacPro to add some new music. This is when things got weird!
First, I noticed that my iPod's name had mysteriously changed since the last time I synced it. It used to be called "Christine's iPod" and now it has reverted to the default "iPod touch."
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