Unable to boot from a 'successful' restore using time machine.

My iBook took a dirt-nap and had to have serious repairs done by Apple. No problem, I have an external HD with my Time Machine back ups. However, when 'restoring from back up', I notice a few things; first, the only version that shows up is the original backup from two years ago. Second, after choosing that version to recover, I cannot boot. Running Verbose boot shows that the last thing happening is CSRHIDTransitionDriver getting a null.
So, it's obvious that my external HD time machine data is corrupt. Is there a way to get back my data with a corrupted time-machine back up? I can see all of the back ups in there. I have run disk utilities and verified both the mac disk and external HD and ran repair disk permissions after my recovery and still no luck.

Well, you don't know that the TM backup drive is corrupt. You may just have done the wrong type of restore. Not to worry at this point.
Boot from your Leopard installer DVD and perform an Erase and Install. Once you have a working system installed you can restore your data from the TM backup drive using Migration Assistant. Be sure that you use a different username for the initial account in Setup Assistant. That way you can migrate your old Home folder without changing the username. Once you migrate your old Home folder you can log into it and delete the account created in the Setup Assistant.

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It usually means you are running Mavericks but have an earlier version of iPhoto. Open the App Store and upgrade your version of iPhoto to the Mavericks version.
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I just got a new MacBook Pro, and I tried to bring across my files from my last mac using time machine. After it was done copying I can't find my files anywhere but the space (about 130gb) has been used on my hard drive. Help please!!

I just got a new MacBook Pro, and I tried to bring across my files from my last mac using time machine. After it was done copying I can't find my files anywhere but the space (about 130gb) has been used on my hard drive. Does anyone know how I can get to them? I did change my user name from 'user' while it was copying, could this have something to do with it?

You don't want to do that by copying.
Your best bet, by far, is to use Setup Assistant. If your Mac is running Snow Leopard, see Using Setup Assistant on Snow Leopard or Leopard.
If it came with Lion, it's a bit different: Using Setup Assistant on Lion

If I restore using Time Machine, will I restore permissions also?

Here is the deal. We have a MacPro and I would like to use Time Machine to backup the computer, then wipe the hard drive and the restore only the software and media. What we DO NOT WANT is for any of the problems (like the permissions that are messed up) to be restored also. When I say permissions I mean in our office we have to hold shift to start up in safe mode, then restart, plus other stuff . I really don't want to get into all that. Please tell me if problems will be restored as well, after the use of Time Machine, cause that's what we want to avoid.
Speak slowly and clearly please.
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2 x 2.26 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
8 GB 1066 MHz DDR3
I'm not sure of the year (let me know if it matters in this case)

Is there anyway to avoid that.
No.
How can I, "exclude from the backup?"
Apple menu > System Preferences > Time Machine > Options...
So using Time Machine, in my case, is a waste of time?
Not necessarily. You could restore from a snapshot taken before the damage was done. In that case, you lose all more recent changes to your files, but you could restore those selectively.
Also would upgrading to Mountain Lion solve this issue?
I'm not sure what the issue is, so I don't know.
Is the way to restore the OS to default, but leave all new media and new software in place?
Boot into Recovery (command-R at startup) and select Reinstall OS X. Don't expect that action to solve any problem other than corrupt or missing system files, which are relatively rare.

ICloud notes deleted; trouble restoring using Time Machine.

All of my notes got deleted via iCloud on both my Mac and iPhone. I tried using Time Machine in the Mail app but for each note it says "Message not cached" and when I try to restore them my Notes folder remains blank. Any suggestions?

Time Machine backs up the file 'as it is'. Its just like copying and pasting the file to an External HD and then dragging it back, would keep the file exactly the same.
The best way to find out, is to try it! This is what I did. Even though there was no need. Get a random photo from the Internet, add it to iPhoto - make sure TM has backed up. (Does it every hour), then delete it and go to TM and restore.
I tried it with a whole album, and restored it. It just came back. Fantastic.
So in answer to your question - Yes TM will bring it back as it was.
The only problem is TM only backs up every hour. You cant do it yourself. (I dont think). So if you were to change a file, save it and then undo or delete it - All within an hour. TM wouldn't have backed up the changes.
Hope this helps.

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Look at this page from the Pondini website:
http://pondini.org/TM/14.html
If you should have other questions about Time Machine they in all probability will be answered in other portions of this site.
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Our old macbook was getting a gray screen with flashing ? on bootup. Eventually I restored it using Time Machine then decided to reinstall Snow Leopard since it would not boot. Machine now boots but is slow. Ran repair disc and tried to run repair disc permissions but got a message that it was cancelled by user.
This machine is at least 6 years old and I just want to limp it along until I can afford to replace it in the spring.

You may be smelling it because with the new OS the processor is having to work harder causing it to get hotter then it would with the other OS. I can't say there is nothing wrong, but what could be happening is just that, it's getting hotter so the fan is spinning faster and moving more air so you are getting more of the smell then you would before. I would still continue to back it up, and take it to the Apple Store at a Genius Bar and have them look at it to make sure. Was the computer ever in a smoky environment??

Restore Using Time Machine

I just backed up my computer using time machine. My question is how do I do a full restore if my hard drive were to fail? Thanks!

Well, I did an Archive and Install then let Time Machine back up my computer. Then, when I did an Erase and Install there was an option to use a Time Machine backup to restore my computer back to what it was. After that, my computer was back to it's normal self.
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Why am getting a "error occurred while restoring from backup" message when restoring using Time Machine?

Hello
I recently made a Bootcamp partition with Windows 7 (which incidentally went absolutely fine). In that partition I wanted to split it for some certain files, but on doing so I appear to have completely tanked my hard drive - I've pretty much wiped the entire thing. I read afterwards that creating new partitions within Windows is a big no no Bootcamp wise, and this wasn't something I knew about before. Lesson learnt!
Either way, I had a backup and though it would be simple enough to restore from that backup, but about 2% in it it pops up "an error has occurred while restoring from backup, please restart and try again". After a few tries, this didn't work, so now I'm worried that my backup is corrupt.
I'm not sure why the backup would be corrupt as this was made with no problems as normal.
I've already tried the standard restore with no success (obviously), and I've also tried re-installing the OS up to the first boot, then trying to restore (thinking that the error was a result of a missing Recovery HD, which the re-install would create) and this was with no success also.
My final idea was to just erase the drive and re-install the OSX, and then when it prompts me, restore the files from the Time Capsule.
Am I onto the right idea, or is there another way around this? I'm just very worried that my backup has become corrupted for some reason and I've lost everything on there.
Specs are:
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I'd agree. As long as you've gone this far, I'd probably start from scratch with your MBP, back up any critical files on it, wipe the whole thing, and do a nice clean reinstall.
I'd try to repair the backup drive with disk utilty and then see if you can restore the minimum of essential documents from it to the MBP. If Disk Utility can't fix it there is a small chance that a third party utility like diskwarrior or techtool could repair it. DiskWarrior 4 - The Disk Utility for Mac Disk Repair, Mac Directory Repair, Mac Disk Recovery, Mac Data Recovery or Techtool Pro 7
If you can get your essential documents off the backup drive, then I'd wipe it and put a new time machine backup on it. If that doesn't work, then I'd replace the drive.

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Thanks

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So have tried several times over the weekend to install, it takes 46 minutes each time - only to tell me it can't do it. There was an error message of needing to contact the software provider (or something similar). After searching the internet (on my husband's computer - since my MBP is rendered useless right now) I decided maybe I should wait on Mavericks and just do a system restore. However, when I plugged in the Hard Drive and proceed to System Restore, the latest date available is one from September of 2012 (14 months ago)... I've wondered if the date might be wrong? But I'm afraid to choose it because I'm not sure what I would lose. It might take me back to Snow Leopard rather than Lion... (however, the version on Restore was 10.8.1 which is Mtn Lion, right? Even tho it was last year...)
Some sources online say that I should go into applications and delete the install -- but I can't get to anything on my computer.
I tried to do a reboot in safe mode - but not sure if it worked...
I did look on the installer log error and the latest error is:
Local Host Report crash [378]
Can anyone help me? (Using simpleton, non-techie language?
Thanks

Restored Using time machine, now I have no check boxes.

So my hard drive deceided to stop working not too long ago, so I got a new one and booted from a time machine back up. After the restore, oddly enough, I do not see check boxes anywhere. Whether it is on a website, or on a system preference page, if there is an option with a check box next to it, it does not appear for me. However, I can still select these checkboxes (assuming of course that I am in the right spot while clicking at essentially nothing). In addition to this craziness, if I click on my volume option in the toolbar on the top, I see an empty box where the volume selection meter used to be. I can still change the volume by clicking somewhere in the empty rectangle, but the problem is that I do not see anything. Not only that, but I also noticed that my keyboard will no longer allow me to adjust the volume or the brightness.
One other weird thing is that everytime I try to do a new back up in time machine, it lags out and fails. So there is a lot of weirdness happening, and all of this happened after I restored. I tried marking this post as a question, but I'm not sure if that was successful (you have click on a checkbox for that). Please help.

You posted your question in the OS 9 & below forum, so you won't get an answer here. You need to repost in the Snow Leopard OS 10.6 forum at https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_os/mac_os_x_v10.6_snow_leopard
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I've a little issue I would like to submit to all wise mac users...
I restored my mbp, delivered with Mountain Lion, using a Time machine save but it ended up replacing it with Lion (Which I was using when I did the save). Is there any solution to get Mountain Lion back or do I have to purchase it from App store ?
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