Will texts received while restoring from backup still come through?

I just updated my phone, and then proceeded to restore from my backup which took a good 20 minutes. If someone texted me during that period, will I still recieve it? The backup restored everything to right before my update, could that mean any text I recieved during the process dissapeared?

Hi, you need to delete those corrupt backups and make another, if your data is still safely on the phone. The next time you will really need a backup to restore from, those corrupt ones will be impossible to work with, your only option being data extraction if possible or start from scratch. If you're just looking for a way to delete the old spotlight messages, try this:
- On the Homescreen, go to "Settings" > "General" > "Spotlight Search"
- Tap each item in the "Spotlight Search" screen to uncheck it (remove the checkmarks), including contacts, apps, music and event and this will remove them, leaving only the search box there for future searches. Then press Home and return to your homescreen.

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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:
MacBook Pro Mid 2012 OS X 10.8.5;
Bootcamp 5 (Windows 7);

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.

Time Machine will not let me restore from backups after June, 2013. I can see the files on the external hard drive but Time Machine skips all of them and goes back to June, 2013. Does anyone have any idea what the problem is?

Time Machine will not let me restore from backups after June, 2013. I can see the files on the external hard drive but Time Machine skips all of them and goes back to June, 2013. Does anyone have any idea what the problem is?

rtilghman wrote:
telling me to buy a new router is NOT a solution.
And why not? Apple is selling these things like BigMacs. They can't make enough of them. You've been suffering since May because you refuse to get a decent router.
Can you imagine if a company that makes a refrigerator told me that I needed to upgrade my electrical system to rectify a problem with their device? What kind of response IS that?!?!
What if the problem with their device is that it requires a new-fangled "grounded" outlet and your circa 1890 house doesn't have grounded outlets. Would you refuse to purchase a $ 25 adapter on principle?

-20 error while restoring from backup

I am getting resotre faile (-20) error message while restoring the ipad from itunes, after upgrading to ios5. does anybody know what this message is and how to resolve

Cryslex wrote:
Thanks for the advice but I tried to reboot my computer from the osx disk and it said I could not run it off of the hard drive selected.
No, since it's not a complete system, it's not going to start.
You mentioned I had to erase the hd first but I don't know how to do that.
If you replaced your HD because of a problem with it, your best bet might be to try the full restore again, but select an earlier backup.
But if you want to erase your internal HD and install OSX, see the yellow box in #1 of Using Disk Utility.
Then see the REINSTALLING OSX section in the box for the version of OSX you're running in Installing the ''combo'' update and/or Reinstalling OSX.
Then you'll have two choices:
When your Mac restarts after installing OSX, you'll have the chance to transfer your data from the most recent backup. See either Using Setup Assistant on Lion or Using Setup Assistant on Snow Leopard or Leopard for detailed instructions.
Or, skip Setup Assistant and create a user account. When your Mac restarts again, use that account to reapair the backups, per #A5 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting. I suspect that's your best option, since it sounds like the backups are damaged.
If they can be repaired, you should be able to do the full restore. Or, you can use Migration Assistant, but that will result in an extra user account and the transferred accounts may lose permission to the backups. See Problems after using Migration Assistant for an explanation and some workarounds.
If they can't be repaired, most likely you can still restore selected items, via the "Star Wars" display, per Time Machine - Frequently Asked Question #15.

ILife 08 will not launch after restore from backup

I had installed iLife 08 on a new mbp, when the screen stopped working so I thought I would try reinstalling the operating system. I backed up all my apps using apples .mac backup to a hard drive, reinstalled, and then tried to restore the apps. My problem is that none of the 08 versions of ilife are opening now, includiong iphoto. I don't have my install cds with me, otherwise I would use those. Does anybody know what to do so that these apps will launch? They appear for a second in the dock and then vanish... Thanks for any help.
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iLife requires 10.4.10, I believe. Have you updated back to that OS?
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Text contacts when Restored from Backup on iPhone 4S show up as phone numbers

I upgraded from a 3GS to a 4S. Setup went smooth enough, but (almost all of) my texts are showing up as phone numbers instead of being connected to their respective Contacts. Texting works whether I text the "phone number" or if I text them as a Contact (for which their names show up properly in Messeges app). Any ideas on how to fix this? All my texts are still there... it's just REALLY sloppy and it's driving me crazy... =(

Are you on Verizon? Several other threads have had this problem. Solution below, see if it works for you:
Here is the summary of the steps I took to correct the issue:
1) Open the Phone and dial *228. This is a Verizon over-the-air programming number.
2) When the system answer press 1 for "Program or activate your phone"
3) Wait for the call to disconnect. You should get a prompt stating something like, "Settings updated."
4) Open the Task Manager and kill the Phone, Message, and Contacts Applications
5) Wait a few minutes (I waited 3 just to be extra safe)
6) Open the Message App to verify the fix.
If you are still broken, kill the Message App again, then reboot your phone.
Ernie

I misplaced my ipad, so I remotely erased it. Then I found it, but now I cannot use all of the options in the settings. I have restored from backup, but it still is not letting me use all functionality. Help!

I misplaced my ipad, so I remotely erased it. Then I found it, but now I cannot use all of the options in the settings. I have restored from backup, but it still is not letting me use all functionality. Help!

Would throwing it in Recovery mode and restoring as new clear it up?
(same for Ipad)
Step 1: Turn off the iPhone. To do this press and hold the power button till you see the “Slide to Power off” screen. Now slide the button to turn it off.
In case your iPhone is stuck in an infinite loop and the previous option is unavailable, press and hold the Power and Home button till the screen goes off. Remember to leave both the buttons as soon as the screen goes off and before the Apple logo appears again.
Step 2: Connect the iPhone’s USB cable to your computer but not to your iPhone yet.
Step 3: Now hold down the Home button and while you are holding it connect the USB cable. Keep holding the Home button till you see the Connect to iTunes screen on your iPhone(Screenshot shown below). iTunes will show an alert saying a device in recovery mode has been detected.
Here’s what your iPhone screen will look like once its in the iPhone Recovery Mode.
Read more: http://www.callingallgeeks.org/15018/how-to-put-iphone-or-ipod-touch-into-recove ry-mode/#ixzz296y04ygX
Under Creative Commons License: Attribution No Derivatives
THEN RESTORE THE DEVICE AND SETUP AS NEW. JUST YOU WILL HAVE TO DOWNLOAD YOUR APPS AGAIN(FREE) ETC....
LEAST THE SECURITY WORKS HAHA!!! I also wouldnt get upset, be thankful you found it.

Error occurred while restoring from the TimeMachine backup

I have an brand new HD that I want to restore from TimeMachine.
Erased and partitioned this brand new drive. Created 2 partitions and formatted as “OS Extended Journaled/ GUID.”
Did a “Command R recovery boot” and went through the steps to backup from TM to my new HD.
         15 seconds into the restoration process Msg. reads:
“Error occurred while restoring from the backup.
Restart your computer and then try restoring again.”
Trouble shooting:
Luckily my original files and initial boot drive that TM was backing up from remains fine and I performed some more TM back ups as well as a TM backup onto another drive as well.
I even tried restoring to another empty drive with older backups and backups off of another HD and got the same error message.
All my BU’s and BU attempts have been within 10.7.3 on the same MP.
Thank you in advance for any help!!

These are the four hard drives I am using for troubleshooting:
1. Internal new 1TB drive
2. External erased and reformatted 500GB firewire drive
3. Internal original 500GB drive designated for TimeMachine with
~200Gigs of successful backup (Including entire bootdrive)
4. External erased and reformatted 300GB drive that I told
TimeMachine to back up to for testing purposes.
I have only erased and reformatted the first 2 empty drives to use as a future boot drive once I can finally restore from my TimeMachine files to one of them successfully.
My troubles all started when I couldn’t get my cpu to boot from my initial boot drive. That’s what has put me on this track. I have since repaired that boot drive with DiskWarrior to perfect order.
Through a lot of my trouble shooting, I have left that initial boot drive in but have since taken it out. I don’t have lion installed on any other drive. Again, my 2 test drives are empty.
I don’t know how long this old boot drive will remain in perfect order and am glad I have found that I cant use TimeMachine on this side of needing it desperately.
Pondini- Thank you again for hangin' in there with me. I think I understand your last recommendation:
         Do I load a new copy of Lion from this location?:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/os-x-lion/id444303913?mt=12&ls=1
The suggestion of “coping the installer” is to have a hard copy like I used to in SnowLeopard etc. for a faster future install?

IPhone restore from backup won't restore text messages?

Hey everybody! So, I went to the Apple store today with a broken power button. Luckily, I was still under warranty so they took my phone and gave me a new (or refurbished) one. I backed up my phone right before I went to the store. The guy at Genius assured me that all of my data would be restored to my phone as soon as I connected my new phone and clicked "restore from backup" on iTunes.
After I did this, everything was back - my apps, photos, reminders, notes, everything - except for my messages. My messages are completely blank. I tried restoring it twice - both times, everything was fine except for my messages. My old phone was iOS 5.1.1 and the one they gave me was automatically iOS 6. Could this be the problem? If not, what's wrong? How can I fix this and return my messages to my phone?
Thanks!

Does the recipient have an iPhone? I assume yes - you won't see a Delivered status on a text message.
If yes, does your outgoing message show as Blue or Green?
If no, did he once have an iPhone and switch to another device?

After restoring from backup on a new phone (same model, just replacement) all my apps are showing as waiting....I have sync'd but still without any joy - this has been going on for hours

After restoring from backup on a new phone (same model, just replacement) all my apps are showing as waiting....I have sync'd but still without any joy - this has been going on for hours

It just means some spammer is using your email address as the sender address for their spam. This is very easy to do - anyone can do it simply by changing the From email address in their email program. It does not mean your account was hacked or you have a virus (there are no current Mac viruses on the loose anyway, nor has there been for years).
There's nothing you can do about it. It can happen to anyone and the spammers will move on to using someone else's email address before long.

Hi i have a question, I'm trying to back up my iPhone to iTunes but it says restore from backup or setup up as new device. if i setup as new device will everything be deleted? if yes then how would i back it up without anything being deleted

Hi i have a question, I'm trying to back up my iPhone to iTunes but it says restore from backup or setup up as new device. if i setup as new device will everything be deleted? if yes then how would i back it up without anything being deleted

Following is a link to instructions on how to backup (either via iTunes and via iCloud) http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766

While updating my iphone 4s to ios6, I had to restore it. Now every time I connect to itunes, I get the "Set Up Your iPhone" window with the set up as new iphone and restore from backup options. After the restore, I got everything except my apps back.

While updating my iphone 4s to ios6, I had to restore it. Now every time I connect to itunes, I get the "Set Up Your iPhone" window with the set up as new iphone and restore from backup options. After the restore, I got everything except my apps and music back. Do I need to set the phone up as new again?

Hi Vidbrent,
If you are having issues updating or restoring your iPhone, you may find the following article helpful:
Apple Support: If you can't update or restore your iOS device
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1808
Regards,
- Brenden

I recently moved to Australia and received a new iphone with a local AUS number. I have a backup of my US iphone in the icloud. Question: when I activate my new AUS iphone which option should I choose - new phone or restore from backup?

I recently moved to Australia and received a new iphone with a local AUS number. I have a backup of my US iphone in the icloud. Question: when I activate my new AUS iphone which option should I choose - new phone or restore from backup? I would like to have all my contacts, email, etc. however wasn't sure that option was appropriate since it is a different/new number and a new phone.

Yes, as new iPhone then restore from backup.

"An error occurred while restoring from the backup.Files can't be restored"

My 4 month old MacBook Pro 15" running 10.6.2 lobotomized itself and I had to have a new HD put in it. I backed up the old one w/ TM on an external HD. I've tried (by the book, and with direct verbal guidance from the Help People at Apple) to restore the system and files but every time it gets to 10.2% in the restoration process and then I get this message: "An error occurred while restoring from the backup. Please restart." and under the frozen progress bar is the chilling line: "Files can't be restored." I've tried restoring from several dates on the TM backup list but it always stops at 10.2% completion. Help!

Hi.
Start by booting from your SL install disc, and selecting Utilities from the menubar, but before going on to +Restore System from Backups,+ instead select +Disk Utility.+
Make +*absolutely certain+* that your internal HD has the GUID *Partition Map Scheme* and the +Mac OS Extended (Journaled)+ Format (unless you're sure it should be +Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, journaled).+
Then do a +*Repair Disk+* (not permissions) on your Time Machine drive.
If that succeeds, quit Disk Utility, then continue with the full restore (per #14 in the FAQ).
But if that finds errors it can't fix, it's possible that +Disk Warrior+ can fix them. It's about $100, and is probably a good long-term investment, but there's no guarantee.
If all else fails, go back to Disk Utility and erase your internal HD, then install OSX. When your Mac restarts, use +Setup Assistant+ to transfer your users, apps, settings, and data from your backups (see #19 in the FAQ).
Then download and instal the "combo" update to get back to 10.6.2. Info and download available at: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL959 (or http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1017 for 10.6.3).
Be sure to do a +Repair Permissions+ via Disk Utility afterwards.

Play a song from itunes? it will show the art work then skip three or four songs and start playing! How can I get it to play the songs I touch? This is a new phone but has been restored from backup. Not even all my icloud music is showing

play a song from itunes? it will show the art work then skip three or four songs and start playing! How can I get it to play the songs I touch? This is a new phone but has been restored from backup. Not even all my icloud music is showing

Hi amorg1876,
If your iPhone is skipping over certain songs, you may want to check out this article:
Troubleshooting songs that skip
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3217
Cheers!
- Ari

Will texts received while restoring from backup still come through?

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