Will Time Machine restore my computer to pre-Snow Leopard days?

Since installing Snow Leopard I have had nothing but problems with VMWare Fusion, with printing from Aperture and iPhoto to to my Epson R1800 printer (even though I downloaded and installed their new Snow Leopard drivers) etc., etc. I wish to return to simpler times as I am not a software engineer and don't wish to go through the hoops that seem necessary to make this work.

If you still have your Leopard installer, it will restore to the last Leopard backup, or the first Leopard backup you have stored on your Time Machine backup.

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    Apple has determined that certain Seagate 1TB hard drives used in 21.5-inch and 27-inch iMac systems may fail. These systems were sold between October 2009 and July 2011.
    Apple or an Apple Authorized Service Provider (AASP) will replace affected hard drives free of charge.
    Will this replacement program restore my system to its current state after the new drive is installed? If not, will I have to have all my original disks to re-install all the programs on my current computer, or will Time Machine restore them as well?

    Most of them will tell you to backup your data.
    Time Machine is nice, but unless you are interested in archival backup, Carbon Copy Cloner is a lot easier to recover from:
    https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-1992

  • I have just upgraded to Mavericks and have been using Time Machine on an external disk with Snow Leopard.  Can I continue to backup with Time Machine on the same external disk or do I need a new disk since the operating system has changed?

    I have just upgraded to Mavericks and have been using Time Machine on an external disk with Snow Leopard.  Can I continue to backup with Time Machine on the same external disk or do I need a new disk since the operating system has changed?

    Hi there,
    I found that Time Machine in Mavericks will sort it all out for you. You shouldn't need to buy another backup drive, unless you have insufficient space left and can't afford to delete whats on there. It should just work fine.

  • Re: Migrating my IPhoto from Time Machine Backup to my just-installed Snow Leopard OSX... the program is there, all my photos are there..... but my photos had all been neatly arranged in folders, and there is absolutely no sign of my folders.  What a mer

    re: Migrating my IPhoto from Time Machine Backup to my just-installed Snow Leopard OSX... the program is there, all my photos are there..... but my photos had all been neatly arranged in folders, and there is absolutely no sign of my folders. What a mess, 20,000 photos.  How can I restore my folders?
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    Restore the library from Time Machine as shown in this screenshot:
    Then open the library with iPhoto.  No importing necessary.
    OT

  • Will Time Machine restore software problems as well as data?

    Hi all -
    I've got a 20" aluminum (2007) iMac with Leopard (all updates installed) and Time Machine. I'm having a shutdown problem that I'm trying to resolve. Yesterday, the computer started powering itself off randomly, as if someone pulled the power plug. I ran both the quick and extended Apple Hardware Tests, and both came up clean (no errors). I'm thinking this may be a software problem.
    I'd like to reload Leopard to clean up the software. However, I already tried doing a Restore via Time Machine yesterday, and the problem did not go away. I restored to the previous day - prior to when the shut downs started happening.
    My question is - If I reload Leopard using the "Restore" feature of Time Machine, does that also copy any problems I had backed up in software to the reloaded system? My guess is yes, since all of my applications remain intact after the Time Machine Restore.
    That said, I find Time Machine to be absolutely brilliant in its simplicity and functionality, and think it should be in every single computer user's hands.
    At any rate, I'm fearing that I'm going to have to do a clean install and then reinstall all of my software manually to get a truly clean system, then restore data manually via my Time Machine backup. I hope I'm wrong.
    Can anybody shed some light? Thanks,
    Shelly

    it really does back up almost everything, even broken files. Go back to the initial backup and restore from that. If that doesn't fix it, you've got hardware problems.
    Crashes are one thing, hangs another, but actual shutdowns where the computer just goes completely off really indicate hardware problems. Software by itself won't do that, even if it's broken.
    - gws

  • No Time Machine animation - 2007 24" iMac and Snow Leopard (10.6)

    I am not getting the spinning stars animation when I enter time machine restore interface on my 2007 24" iMac. This Mac has the ATI Radeon HD 2600 256 MB Graphic Card. I just a white screen. I deleted the time machine prefs and I still do not have the spinning stars interface. I used to get it in Mac OS 10.5.8. Thoughts.

    nowak66 wrote:
    Okay - it took a while but I went through all the steps in the troubleshooting guide under E4.
    Still does not work. I get a white background where the spinning stars animation should be. Other than this visual, the data restore function works fine.
    Any thoughts?
    It's a long shot, but might be related to your video card.
    Try running the *Apple Hardware Tests.* (Instructions should be printed on the disc; if they differ from these, follow them instead)
    1. Disconnect all external devices (including the Ethernet cable) except the keyboard and mouse.
    2. Insert the "Additional Software & Apple Hardware Test" disc that came with your computer.
    3. Restart while holding down the "C" key. When the list of available startup volumes appears, click Apple Hardware Test and the right arrow.
    4. When the Apple Hardware Test main screen comes up (after a moment), follow the on-screen instructions.
    +(note that when your Video RAM is tested, various patterns, colors, and stripes will appear on the screen).+
    5. If it detects a problem, an error code will be displayed. Make a note of it.

  • Why I cannot assess deleted Apple mail messages in time machine after installing mountain lion from snow leopard.

    Ever since I installed Mountain Lion from Snow Leopard, I cannot retrieve my deleted Apple mail messages from Time Machine.  I could do it in the past using Snow Leopard.  The effective date for the the non-retrival of deleted messages is the date I installed Mountain Lion from Snow Leopard.  Any thoughts?

    Keith Montreal wrote:
    It was origionally a local folder for things like receipts from the Apple Store, etc
    I'm still not sure what you mean . . . is it listed in the "On My Mac" section in Mail's sidebar, like these?
    Mountain Lion appears to have given it an icon very much like an Archive box and put the "on My Mac" folder within that "Box" on both the back ups and the new Mail program - in fact it did it 6 times, which was the origional problem.
    Can you post a screenshot?
    I could restore inbox messages although they came in as a new mail box called Time Machine rather than into their origional mailboxes (there are 7 different addresses)
    Yes, that's how Time Machine restores Mail messages, so it doesn't erase the current contents of an existing mailbox.  You can then move them into the desired location.

  • Will time machine restore an application?

    I am new to MAC. I have been backing up my files since I started using my new machine in November. Recently I have had a lot of trouble with the iMovie application. It seems to have started after the January 15th update. I would like to restore the application to its state on January 14th to see if the problem is eliminated. Can I go to January 14th and restore the iMovie application files?
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    NEPA

    You iMovie 08 application either came on your install disk that came with your computer or on an iLife 08 retail disk.
    If your computer came with a Leopard CPU upgrade dvd or if you bought a retail version, the iLife apps are not on that disk.
    They will be on either the retail iLife disk or the original install disks that came with the computer, which would have had to have been Mac OS X 10.4.10 install disks in order to have the iLife 08 package included.
    You would need to insert disk 1 of that pair in order to launch "Install Bundled Software Only" and then insert disk 2 when prompted.

  • Time Machine Restore Slows Computer

    I have a 24" iMac (Early 2008) 3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo computer. The original hard drive failed last week and I had it replaced with a new 1TB HD at a local Apple Premium Service Provider shop.  The computer worked like new when I got it back...and then I restored my backup from Time Machine. 
    So I've had this Mac since 2008 and since then I have gone through almost all the OS X updates.  I have downloaded and installed tons of apps, which over the years have become out-of-date and thus no longer work with the current OS.  I have downloaded countless of albums and movies, tv shows etc, etc.  I have deleted some of this information over the years.  I have also been through a few different external hd's using Time Machine, but I always transferred all the old information to the new ones.  Could someone tell me if bits of leftover information are now saved on my HD and are thus causing the computer to perform extremely slow?  If this is the case, what would be the best approach to deleting this information?  Thanks in advance!

    When you have the problem, note the exact time: hour, minute, second.
    If you have more than one user account, these instructions must be carried out as an administrator.
    Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
    ☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
    ☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
    ☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
    Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
    View ▹ Show Log List
    from the menu bar.
    Each message in the log begins with the date and time when it was entered. Scroll back to the time you noted above. Select the messages entered from then until the end of the episode, or until they start to repeat, whichever comes first. Copy the messages to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message (command-V).
    The log contains a vast amount of information, almost all of it useless for solving any particular problem. When posting a log extract, be selective. In most cases, a few dozen lines are more than enough. It is never necessary or helpful to post more than about 100 lines. "The more, the better" is not the rule here.
    Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
    Important: Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.

  • Will time machine get messed up in dual boot Leopard/Snow Leopard?

    I have one piece of software that I need to use that does not work in Snow Leopard, so I have held off upgrading for awhile. I have a project coming up however that uses another piece of software that is accelerated greatly by running in Snow Leopard, thus I would like to dual boot Leopard and Snow Leopard on separate partitions.
    My question is: is the Time Machine backup going to work when I am booted into either OS version? Do I have to disable time machine in one of them? I could be booted for several days at a time in one OS version or the other, so I would like to be backing up while in either os. I really value Time Machine. It has saved my behind several times.
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    -Matt

    Matthew Woods wrote:
    Thanks for the testing and tips Pondini. Sounds like everything will work, so I just ordered my copy of Snow Leopard.
    You'll love it!
    Your idea of excluding the the opposite boot partition from each other's time machine settings is a good one. I plan to keep most of my work files on a separate internal drive anyway (that will be included in the TM backup under either OS), so the boot partition not currently being used shouldn't change when I'm in the other OS.
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    The "Preparing" phase at the beginning of a backup is now called "Calculating Changes," and (effective with 10.6.3) you'll see "Scanning nnn items" messages when TM does a "deep traversal," and "Preparing nnn items" messages" on the TM Preferences panel and when you click the TM icon in your menubar, before actual copying gets started.

  • Apple restored my computer back to snow leopard however my backup was with lion.  after much research and time i finally downloaded mavericks.  i have now since migrated my files back onto my mac air which is running maverick.  it has not restored my file

    can anyone assist me to find my migrated files

    If at the setup screen you used Migration assistant in conjunction with your Time Machine backup everything should be where you would expect to find it previously.
    Can you elaborate?

  • I want to use my time machine backup to go back to Snow Leopard

    I can't live without having my great old golf game (Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2003) readily available, and playable, which I always had on my iMac with Snow Leopard. Since upgrading to Mavericks - and using Parallels with Mac OS X 10.6 Server - I am told there's a color/display problem (something about 16-bit color) and I can't get the game to play even though it's the same computer, only upgraded to Mavericks. Parallels says it's an Apple (Mac OS X Server 10.6) problem but from what I can see the server version of this OS is exactly the same as the non-server version - at least insofar as the display/color/graphics is concerned - and Parallels either doesn't want to help (with an appropriate graphics controller) or can't.... so I'm left with having to go back to Snow Leopard from Mavericks. What a huge disappointment! Can I use - and how do I do it - my Time Machine backup of my Snow Leopard OS, apps, documents, iTunes, etc. to wipe out Mavericks?

    Yes, the machine came with Snow Leopard but not sure where the install disc(s) are. Perhaps they got lost in the shuffle as we moved a few months ago. I do have a Snow Leopard install disc - can I use that and if so, is there a different way to do the install than if I was using the original install discs that came with the computer? Maybe I will jsut have to try it and see what comes up....
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  • Time Machine and Disk Permissions + Compatibility with Snow Leopard

    I have received warning from Disk Utility that I should repair permissions as several files show incorrect permissions and, more than that, my 750GB shows "769GB available".
    My questions are:
    1. If I use Command+R and rebuild the disk from a Time Machine backup, will permissions be reset or will the files just be copied as they are now?
    2. Is there a way to verify the TM backups to check the files therein?
    3. Suppose, just for the sake of an exercise, that I reload Snow Leopard; can I still use SL's Time Machine to read a Lion Time Machine backup?
    Thanks in advance for any advice you can provide!
    Fernando

    Why are you repairing permissions? It's a waste of time unless you have a specific reason to do it, and the warnings don't mean anything.
    To verify your Time Machine backup, proceed as below.
    Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
    ☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
    ☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
    ☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the page that opens.
    Drag or copy — do not type — the following line into the Terminal window, then press return:
    sudo tmutil compare
    You'll be prompted for your login password, which won't be displayed when you type it. You may get a one-time warning not to screw up.
    The command will take at least a few minutes to run. Eventually some lines of output will appear below what you entered.
    Each line that begins with a plus sign (“+”) represents a file that has been added to the source volume since the last snapshot was taken. These files have not been backed up yet.
    Each line that begins with an exclamation point (“!”) represents a file that has changed on the source volume. These files have been backed up, but not in their present state.
    Each line that begins with a minus sign (“-“) represents a file that has been removed from the source volume.
    Files that you’ve excluded from backup, or that are excluded automatically, are ignored.
    At the end of the output, you’ll get some lines like the following:
    Added:
    Removed:
    Changed:
    These lines show the total amount of data added, removed, or changed on the source(s) since the last snapshot.

  • Time Machine backup disk not mounting after Snow Leopard upgrade

    i recently upgraded from latest version of Leopard to Snow Leopard via retail disk 10.6.3 & then updated combo 10.6.5. Now the TM backup disc will not mount.

    Exactly what happens? Do you get a message? If so, what?
    Try a "full reset" of Time Machine, per #A4 in [Time Machine - Troubleshooting|http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/Troubleshooting.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum).
    If that doesn't help, the backups may be corrupted. Repair them, per #A5 in Troubleshooting.

  • Did Os Lion clear time machine archived disk images under OS Snow Leopard?

    Just looked back on my time machine drive - and realised to my shock that there were no snapshots of my files prior to mid July 2011. I bought this 15in Mac Book Pro in April and have used the same back up drive throughout. I have 480GB of free capacity on the drive. The only thing that happened the week of the 'first' archived 'snapshot' is the upgrade to OS Lion...
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    Best I can suggest for now is that you have a good look at Pondini's TM and Setup/Migration Assistant articles
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