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  1. Princess Cake

    Possible to restore Time Machine to old macOS?

    Basically I'm fed up with High Sierra with what it's been doing to my iMac performance-wise and want to "downgrade" (to me it'd be an upgrade) to OS X Mavericks as its the earliest version my Mac supports. I'd like to know if I can restore a Time Machine backup made on High Sierra to Mavericks...
  2. zastin17

    Macintosh 128k Restoration Complete!

    Thank you to everyone who helped me with this restoration project of my Macintosh 128k Especially MacTech68. I got the 400k calibrated after 30 minutes of power cycling and moving the sensor with a Flathead in the notch on the drive as MacTech68 mentioned. I tightened the screw and added nail...
  3. Bryancap77

    I deleted a partition from my HDD

    I can’t stream on my Mac in the way I want, so I used Mac’s boot camp to download Windows. I couldn’t use boot camp to create a partition (it kept failing during the partition process) so I created a partition manually in the HDD, and then after loading the Windows ISO, it fails. I then deleted...
  4. N

    Locked out!

    I am new to this forum thing and I am sure there is a thread on this already, but I am in need of some help. My niece has a old Ipad (I think its around the first generation) and her brother got a hold of it and locked her out of it. Her parents nor her can remember the password and/or never...
  5. C

    Restoring iphone from iCloud will not overwrite iOS

    Hi, I just purchase a used iPhone with iOS 10.3.3, which is jailbreak. I am planning to restored the phone from iCloud. My old iphone has been updated to iOS 11.1. My question, if I restored the iPhone from iCloud, it will not overwrite my iOS 10.3.3 to 11.1, correct? Will the restored from...
  6. albehany

    restore backup made in high sierra to sierra

    Hi guys as the title say I move to high Sierra and I did backup with time machine but I don't like and some of my stuff don't work so I go back to Sierra the problem when I try to get the backup from the time machine I get this problem this source contains a newer release of os x. for me I don't...
  7. shichao34

    Restore ios11 backup to an ios10 iphone

    Is that any chance i can restore a ios11 backup to an ios10 iphone? I have two ip6s, one in ios11 another one in ios10 I tried to edit plist but a message saying that the "iphone is disconnected" keep popping out during restore Any solution?
  8. Darmok N Jalad

    Clean start for my 6S, but want to keep Health and message history

    So I’ve been bouncing between iPhone models for a few months to try different sizes, and I finally decided to land on a 6S. On each transition, I just backed up the current phone and then restored the new phone from the backup. From what I gather, this can eventually lead to random problems. I...
  9. Z

    DFU Restore and error (14)

    I press the power button to boot my iPad Air ver1. The Apple logo comes up for 10sec and then goes away. The iPad will not boot. I tried to do a DFU Restore but not even that worked. I got an error (14) msg. I dont k know what to do, can anyone help?
  10. rohan_a_m

    Data recovery from iphone

    Hey guys! Recently i forgot my passcode of my iphone 6s. Hence I had to restore it to factory settings. Due to this I lost all my data from the phone. My icloud storage was full around one and half years back and also I have no itunes backup. Is there any possible way to recover my data? I do...
  11. spyran

    Downgraded High Sierra -> Sierra - Can't restore photos?

    I finally managed to downgrade from that atrocious os that is High Sierra back to Sierra on my late 2013 15" mbp. Unfortunately i had not made a time machine backup from when i was on Sierra, however i made one from High Sierra just incase and did a clean install of Sierra. However the problem...
  12. F

    Moving WhatsApp chat from Android to iOS

    Hi there guys, today I replaced my OnePlus 3 with the iPhone 7. While installing WhatsApp I realized it should be deleted first from the Android phone in order to get the verification SMS on the iPhone. After that I logged in my account, but all the chats went lost. My question is: since I...
  13. Mortmain

    iPhone How can I transfer iMessage/SMS messages from Mac to iPhone?

    I have a huge problem, i made a huge mistake... I've restored my iPhone without backup. I have all my iMessage/SMS conversations on my Mac (macOS Sierra). I would like to transfer them to my iPhone. How can I do that? It would be important to have all messages on my phone. Thank you so much!
  14. Tesla1856

    Seeking the ultimate Image-based backup solution for my Mac with Windows-10 BootCamp

    Is anyone else interested in a one-step, whole-system, Image-based backup solution for their macOS system with a BootCamp Windows-10 partition? If you have been around computers for a while, you know drives can fail at any time. Backups are mandatory. I additionally like whole system...
  15. C

    Help with my broken Apple Account

    I restored my iPhone 6 recently, and all the apps seem to have not been fully updated when using an iCloud backup, so I have like 73 updates to do. When I try to do those updates it says "Theres is a billing problem with a family member's previous purchase" "Ask the family organizer to update...
  16. angelcandice29

    Need help I lost my contacts and messages after downgrading from IOS 11 to 10.3.2

    I downgraded my IOS from 11 to 10.3.2, I backed up my iphone 6 plus in my itunes prior to downgrading. I successfully downgraded my IOS to 10.3.2 but I lost my contacts and messages. How can I restore it without going back to 11? I am noob please help. Cheers!
  17. seitsme

    Q&A Tethered vs untethered

    hello, I frequently see the terms tethered and untethered on jailbreak websites. I will try to jailbreak my iphone4 ios 7x to ios 8x and not sure what these terms mean and do to the phone. thanks
  18. Hyde244

    Trouble doing iPhone Restore after iOS 11 Public Beta

    I decided to revert back to my iTunes backup of iOS 10 after having tried the public beta iOS 11 for a few days. The phone has remained plugged in the entire time, yet is stuck on the loading screen for the OS (the opening Apple screen). Screen has remained stuck now for a couple of hours - I...
  19. C

    Stuck in boot loop and impossible to restore?

    Hello there guys!. I was cleaning today and left my phone on the side and a glass fell from the top of my cupboard and landed on my phone and has completely and utterly destroyed my iphone 7 and there is no going back sadly, so I have gone back to old measures and dug out the old iPhone 5s. I...
  20. Ejudd1206

    Cannot get phone to work! Going NUTS!

    I have an iPhone 6 Plus. The screen says "iPhone is disabled, please connect to iTunes." When I connect to iTunes, it tells me that I need to click something on my phone to allow iTunes to access it. My phone will not give me this option. All I can do is "swipe for emergency." I tried holding...