Yosemite install deleted files from Time Machine!!  Yosemite installation deleted a printer application.  Went into Time Machine to restore the printer app and it was gone!  Now I wonder what else is gone.

Installed Yosemite on iMac desktop.  Made sure I backed up and disconnected external hard drive.  Yosemite deleted a printer/scanner application.  Went into Time Machine to restore it and it was gone.  When external hd was remounted Yosemite went into it, probably to index, and deleted the application from all backups.  Wonder what else is missing??    Besides being unbelievably SLOW now I have to see what else has been lost.  

Can you simply navigate to your Time Machine backup with the Finder? Treat it like an external hardrive and just look for your old Applications folder. /Applications/
Also, quite a few apps put config and support files in ~/Library/Application\ Support/
So you may be able to get the files from there as well.

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