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Jun 19, 2018 Either way you should eventually boot into Recovery Mode. On the utilities screen, select the “Restore From Time Machine Backup” option. On the Restore From Time Machine page, hit the “Continue” button. Step Two: Choose Hard Drive. You can also easily selectively restore files from just the folders you want. Just open your Time Machine drive in Finder, browse to your Mac's folder, and select the “Latest” link to open the last backup folder. Or, grab an older version if you're really sure that's what you want. Now browse through the folders and find what you want to restore. Apr 27, 2020 Time Machine will not be helpful if you don't have an external hard drive to use it to create a backup of all of your files on Mac. However, at this time, you are able to recover deleted files on Mac from Mac Trash or using a professional Mac data recovery tool. EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard for Mac is available here to restore your Mac data without Time Machine backup. Mar 03, 2020 Another use case that often comes up is a need to selectively transfer files from an old Time Machine backup to a new Mac. Let’s be clear, it is possible to restore the entire Mac backup to another Mac, but it is impossible to use another computer’s backup to cherry-pick the files. If you want to exclude certain things though, do an erase/reinstall from scratch and then in macOS run Migration Assistant to pull data from your Time Machine backup. You'll get a few options to choose selectively what you want to restore (Apps, Settings, Data).
You can use Time Machine, the built-in backup feature of your Mac, to automatically back up all of your files, including apps, music, photos, email, documents, and system files. When you have a backup, you can restore files from your backup if the original files are ever deleted from your Mac, or the hard disk (or SSD) in your Mac is erased or replaced.
Create a Time Machine backup
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To create backups with Time Machine, all you need is an external storage device. After you connect the device and select it as your backup disk, Time Machine automatically makes hourly backups for the past 24 hours, daily backups for the past month, and weekly backups for all previous months. The oldest backups are deleted when your backup disk is full.
Connect an external storage device
Connect one of the following external storage devices, sold separately. Learn more about backup disks that you can use with Time Machine.
- External drive connected to your Mac, such as a USB, Thunderbolt, or FireWire drive
- External drive connected to an AirPort Extreme Base Station (802.11ac model) or AirPort Time Capsule
- AirPort Time Capsule
- Mac shared as a Time Machine backup destination
- Network-attached storage (NAS) device that supports Time Machine over SMB
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Select your storage device as the backup disk
When you connect an external drive directly to your Mac, you might be asked if you want to use the drive to back up with Time Machine. Select Encrypt Backup Disk (recommended), then click Use as Backup Disk.
An encrypted backup is accessible only to users with the password. Learn more about keeping your backup disk secure.
If Time Machine doesn't ask to use your drive, follow these steps to add it manually:
- Open Time Machine preferences from the Time Machine menu in the menu bar. Or choose Apple () menu > System Preferences, then click Time Machine.
- Click Select Backup Disk (or Select Disk, or Add or Remove Backup Disk):
- Select your external drive from the list of available disks. Then select ”Encrypt backups” (recommended) and click Use Disk:
If the disk you selected isn't formatted as required by Time Machine, you're prompted to erase the disk first. Click Erase to proceed. This erases all information on the backup disk.
Enjoy the convenience of automatic backups
After you select a backup disk, Time Machine immediately begins making periodic backups—automatically and without further action by you. The first backup may take a long time, depending on how many files you have, but you can continue using your Mac while a backup is underway. Time Machine backs up only the files that changed since the previous backup, so future backups will be faster.
To start a backup manually, choose Back Up Now from the Time Machine menu in the menu bar. Use the same menu to check the status of a backup or skip a backup in progress.
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- If you back up to multiple disks, you can switch disks before entering Time Machine. Press and hold the Option key, then choose Browse Other Backup Disks from the Time Machine menu.
- To exclude items from your backup, open Time Machine preferences, click Options, then click the Add (+) button to add an item to be excluded. To stop excluding an item, such as an external hard drive, select the item and click the Remove (–) button.
- If using Time Machine to back up to a network disk, you can verify those backups to make sure they're in good condition. Press and hold Option, then choose Verify Backups from the Time Machine menu.
- In OS X Lion v10.7.3 or later, you can start up from your Time Machine disk, if necessary. Press and hold Option as your Mac starts up. When you see the Startup Manager screen, choose “EFI Boot” as the startup disk.
Jody Smith wrote:
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My concern has been that when i migrated, I migrated some of the supporting files for the Core2Duo hardware to the i7 hardware and may be losing some performance from 3rd party apps.
No. Migration Assistant doesn't transfer any part of OSX. Only a full system restore does that. See #14 in Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum).
Anyway so I made sure I had a proper TM back up and a file level backup and wiped my machine.
Why?
If the drive is empty, there are only two ways of getting a workable copy of OSX onto it: install Snow Leopard from your Install disc, or do a full system restore.
So here I am with my TM backup knowing I can do a selective restore from the items I choose.
Here are the questions:
1. If I restore my system level 'Library' file, will I have negated my purpose in starting from scratch?
Yes. I've never tried it, but I suspect Time Machine won't let you do that anyway.
1a, it seems TM is pretty smart and has either removed or hidden the system files, which makes me think it will only restore parts relative to this machine...am I crazy? [don't answer that]
2. One thing I don't see is a Applications folder, again supports my theory that TM is smart enough to know this is different enough to not allow app restoral, and I seeing that correctly?
Unless you specifically excluded them (and there is some very bad advice to do that, floating about on the internet), Time Machine should have backed-up everything except system work files, caches, trash, etc.
And you should be able to selectively restore apps, including 3rd-party ones, via the 'Star Wars' display, once you have a working copy of OSX on your Mac. But that doesn't mean those apps will work properly, or at all. The ones that come with their own installers don't just put the app in /Applications; they put various other files in assorted places, often including the /Library folder. So if you don't know what and where all those other files are, and restore them, too, the app won't work right, if at all.
How and where are you looking for those folders, especially Applications?
My motivation: I am perfectly ok with having to wipe clean the HDD, install the OS, reinstall all my applications, although time consuming, i'm okay with it.
Unless you have reason to suspect lots of corrupted data, there's no reason to do that.
If you've wiped your internal HD, your best bet is probably to do a full system restore (per #14). That should get you back to where you were after the migration, unless some critical things were excluded.
Then if you're having problems with 3rd-party apps, reinstalling them from the original discs might help.