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time machine backup doesn't restore properly

  1. Feek

    Time Machine not letting me select a backup older than yesterday to restore from

    Hi folks, My Time Machine backup is to a Synology NAS and I'm trying to restore some directories from a few months ago. I go into Time Machine, scroll back to the date, it sits there loading for a few minutes and then it scrolls back by itself to a backup from yesterday. It won't let me...
    • Feek
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    • synology time machine time machine backup doesn't restore properly
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: macOS Monterey (12)
  2. chnine

    Time Machine not allowing selection of a file from yesterday’s backup

    Hi there, I have a Photoshop doc (using current Adobe CC product) that I accidentally changed some layers on today (working too fast LOL). I renamed the doc (versus duplicating and renaming it) to reflect that I was adding some new work. Prior to this, this doc had last been worked on a...
    • chnine
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    • macbook pro 15 2015 time machine time machine backup doesn't restore properly
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: macOS Mojave (10.14)
  3. CJ Dorschel

    Time Machine No Longer Recovers Individual Contacts, E-Mails, etc

    I've used Time Machine since its introduction as well as .Mac/iCloud. Recently I upgraded my Mac Pro to Catalina as I held off updating any Mac's to the latest OS X release for various reasons. I attempted to restore a deleted contact as I normally could via Time Machine (open Contacts, then...
  4. E

    Problem after Time Machine restore - Mojave 10.14

    I have Mojave 10.14 and used TM which did always the backup without any errors. Now, after replacing my SSD, I formatted it to Mac OS Extended in Recovery Utilities (didn’t give me the option to format to APFS) and proceeded to restore the backup (720GB). All good here, took almost 5 hours...
    • ebmaurer
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    • after restoring froze after restoring stuck mojave time machine backup doesn't restore properly
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: macOS Mojave (10.14)
  5. pedzsan

    Verify Time Machine Backup

    Around Thanksgiving last year, I had to restore my laptop from a Time Machine backup. What was a little stressful was the most recent backup didn't work. I had to go back a week or more to a version that fully restored completely. Is there a way, other than restoring the backup onto a laptop...
    • pedzsan
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    • time machine backup doesn't restore properly
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: macOS
  6. Mainbeam

    Time Machine Restore

    Hi folks, My 2011 MBP is slowly dying and I have managed to create a time machine back up. It has a 1TB SSD and 1TB HDD instead of optical drive. All storage, pictures, music is on sata HDD and OS etc is on SSD. I have bought a replacement 2017 MBP which only has 128GB flash drive storage...
  7. L

    Restoring TM back up to NEW Macbook Pro

    Hi guys... So i've just purchased a new macbook pro that shipped with OSX High Sierra pre installed. My plan is to use it as a duplicate rig of my main mac in my studio. I've done a timemachine back up of my main studio mac and want to restore that back up to my new backup so both machines...
    • Lordfader
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    • time machine backup doesn't restore properly
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: MacBook Pro
  8. D

    All Calendar entries lost after upgrade to 10.13

    Yesterday I upgraded from 10.10 Yosemite to 10.13 High Sierra. Everything seemed fine ... but when I opened Calendar, every single entry and almost every calendar was gone! I tried restoring from Time Machine, using the backup created just before downloading 10.13. It restored every entry up...
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