Backup via Time Machine: do I need a blank disc?

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  My MacBook has closed, but I made backups using Time Machine. When I get a new computer, I'll be able to simply reinstall my Creative Suite Design of my external hard drive? Is it as simple as connect my external hard drive or do I need something else?

  Adobe applications must be installed using installation files.   The downloads are available

  Download and Installation Help-

  https://helpx.Adobe.com/download-install.html

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• Difference between Seagate Plus backup and Time Machine?

  Can anyone tell me what the diff between backup and Time machine?

  I started and this next screen (see below).  This means that the Seagate Plus backup will replace Time Machine?  Or he supplement TM?

  I'm afraid that if I select "Use as backup drive", I might regret it... then I would understand.

  THX

  

  If you use Time Machine with your Seagate hard drive, say Yes.

• 150:30 of error after you restore the backup CS4 Time Machine

  I bought a new Imac with OS X Maverick and put in place by using a backup from time machine. My Adobe CS4 now has a problem with the license and shows me the error: 150:30?

  I have to uninstall and reinstall CS4? Is there an easy solution to this problem?

  Thanks to everyone for help.

  Chris

  I have to uninstall and reinstall CS4?

  Unfortunately Yes.

  Also run the cleanup tool before reinstalling

  Use the CC cleaning tool to resolve installation problems. CC, CS3 - CS6

  Restoring backups Time Machine invariably breaks the activation mechanism (error 150:30) and there is no easy way to correct an error of 150:30 otherwise than by the re-installation.

• Backup Restore Time Machine does not see RAID external drive

  Hi all

  I have a problem with my iMac restore from a Time Machine backup, and I was wondering if anyone else had the same problem already.

  I had to reinstall OS X El Capitan from scratch, based on education, I received Support from Apple. That worked without problems and my iMac works fine. However, I wanted to restore it to how it was before, using Time Machine. I keep my backups on a LaCie 5big Thunderbolt 2 and never had any problems with it.

  To restore the system, I followed the instructions on the Support page. I restarted my system in recovery mode and selected the "restore from Time Machine backup". Unfortunately the LaCie 5big does not appear on the list of drives, so I'm stuck... When you use the system in normal mode, the external RAID is visible and Time Machine stores backups on it without any problem.

  Any of you are familiar with this problem? I would be very grateful if you could help me with this problem!

  Kind regards

  Valerio

  Hello

  -While the system is booted in recovery mode, confirm that the Lacie 5big network is visible in disk utility.   You will need to disconnect / reconnect the Thunderbolt cable to the Lacie 5big be detected.

  -Once seen, a new attempt to restore from Time Machine backup.

  See you soon

• Photoshop and backup on time machine Photos

  Hi, I have a MacBook Pro when I installed Photoshop Elements. I have a good collection of more than 17000 photos that are in the Organizer in Photoshop elements (photos Photoshop app organization). I also have thousands of other photographs in the iPhoto itself that are different from those of Photoshop.

  I take a backup of my machine on an external hard drive through a Time machine. I want to know if the backup contains pictures located in the Photoshop elements Organizer. If so then if I need to reproduce these images on another computer I will be able to do. If the backup Time machine does not include pictures, so if I take how to.

  The backup must include Organizer, except if you have excluded in System Preferences/Time Machine. Why not copy the Organizer existing to the other computer, rather than use Time Machine?

• First external USB disk backup from Time Machine and Time Capsule

  I have a new USB drive from 4 TB to use for backups Time Machine plugged on my almost full Time Capsule.  The Capsule is connected to my network using Ethernet, so it can be used to back up my MacBook Pro and iMac (via ethernet) (wireless).

  I would like to initial backups by directly plugging the USB directly on my iMac and my MacBook Pro.  I currently have the USB plugged into the Capsule of time connected to the ethernet. The initial backup for my iMac took 2 hours to make the 35GBs of 1.6TBs to back up so far.  So potentially 2 + days of initial backup...?

  There must be a quicker way.

  Box: to recover from my iMac support precedent (after a crash), which stood on a 3 TB USB2 drive plugged to the Capsule, it was estimated to take 36 hours.  I fly over the drive and plugged into the USB port on my iMac and the recovery only took about 8-10 hours, so it does not work for recovery.

  I tried to make the backup of the iMac by plugging the USB drive of 4 TB directly on the iMac. I then moved the dUSB Time Capsule drive, but he seemed to start when plugged into the TimeCapsule. If possible, I must have done something wrong in the order.

  It is extremely difficult to backup directly to the USB port and then move it to the TC because TM backup differently at local and network drives.

  People have figured out ways around it... but you think that it cannot simply... After saving 1.6 TB of data.

  Here see Q18.

  http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html

  The fact is... It is not a reliable method.

  The initial backup for my iMac took 2 hours to make the 35GBs of

  It's a little slow... is the gigabit connection and the wireless is turned off?

  What model is the TC?

  Your sidebar... is absolutely true... you can easily go elsewhere... because you can mount the sparsebundle to the computer.

  Box: to recover from my iMac support previous (after a crash), which stood on a 3 TB USB2 player connected to the time Capsule, it has been estimated to take 36

  hours.  I fly over the drive and plugged into the USB port on my iMac and the recovery only took about 8-10 hours, so it does not work for recovery.

• corrupted backup iPhone: you can restore old backup from Time Machine?

  Hello

  I recently had my iPhone 6 (last iOS 9.2) stolen and when I bought my new 6 iPhone updated to iOS 9.3.1 and it synchronized, he said that the March 21 backup was corrupt or incompatible.

  Leaving aside Why is it (except if in your knowledge, it has an effect), I was wondering is it possible to go into the Time Machine and find the last iPhone backup (hopefully not corrupt or incompatible) and then use it when you synchronize and put up my new phone?

  So in this case I would lose a week / a month value of the data over the year or so for my backup previously listed on my iTunes currently.

  More important still, I need to get my SMS and notes.

  For now, my contacts seem to have all come finer.

  A big thank you for any help you can provide.

  See you soon

  You should be able to do. Follow the instructions here to find and restore the backup on your hard drive.

  Use Time Machine to back up or restore your Mac - Apple Support

• Backup using Time Machine on two external drives?

  I know that time the machine supports two separate discs, but my question is:

  For example:

  If I have a Pegasus RAID of 8 TB, can I use two external 4 TB to my time machine backup disks?

  Time machine splits my data through the two HD?

  Thank you!

  Steve

  As far as I know no, TM will not cover the files on drives.

  You could create a second RAID using 2 4 to disks with older versions of disk utility (training of RAID is no longer supported in El Capitan) or via the Terminal and use it, but I recommend strongly against this. RAIDs always have additional layers of vulnerabilities, so you're much better off getting 8 or 10 TB of drives for your back - up (s) 2 back Ups always better than 1.

  Hope this helps, Greg

• Backup Restore Time Machine after 10.11.3 downgrade to 10.10.5?

  I am installing a purchased copy of Capture NX2 photo of Nikon editing software on my MacBook Pro retina 2015.

  I learned that I can only install this software on a machine running upward for OS X 10.10.5 (Yosemite) and that after an upgrade to El Capitan software will still work.  (The software cannot be installed under El Capitan, confirmed by Nikon)

  I had a Time Machine backup of my 10.11.3 system, lowered to Yosemite with a new installation of a boot USB disk, installed the Capture NX2 without difficulty. Works very well.

  Now, I would like to restore from backup Time Machine El Capitan, but maintain the installation of the software (i.e. I don't want to replace all of the disk). Yosemite will not let me restore from backup Time Machine of El Capitan (see the files, but will not allow app or restorations of the photo library)

  Is it still possible?  What I need to solve this problem by having an El Capitan and Yosemite a partition on my hard drive?

  Thanks in advance!

  It seems that the plan was to go down, install the software, then upgrade.

  Have you tried to upgrade, and then use the Migration Wizard to migrate the data from the backup?

• Import mail backup from time machine

  Hello world

  Performed a 'clean' installation when replace my HD with a new SSD. Upgrade to El Capitan and all my apps are fees/updated downloads to date. I copied on my own top Documents folder manually. Now, I need to make my registered e-mail records the new image. At least part of the problem is that I don't see the folder library users during the backup Time Machine.

  Any advice? All I want now is the TM saved email from the mail.

  See you soon! Thanks for any help on this one - so far the only problem I not ben couldn't solve after install the own.

  Launch of Mail. Detection of a Database Mail is empty, it will provide an option to import e-mail messages from your Time Machine backup. If you have refused this option already, select in the menu file of mail > import mailboxes...

  Alternatively, "enter Time Machine" of Mail, and restore your lack of Time Machine messages.

• Restore the iPad App via Time Machine?

  Let's see if I can explain it clearly without writing a novel...

  We used iBank on a series of iPads in Quicken replacement.  iBank was wonderful.

  A few days ago, we decided to accept the upgrade to the new version of the App.  The upgrade has changed the name of the application of Banktivity 5.0.3.

  After the update the app is more responsible, is back with ' an error occurred during the migration of permanent storage' and when we hit OK you get the spinning wheel of death, eternally.  Fearing yet another Apple HW question I made the mistake to immediately an iPad manual backup because I did not know when the last of them automatic was and I didn't lose anything else on the iPad.

  The iPad is running 9.3.1 model number MD516LL/a H/W.

  We have iTunes to save 'automatically' iPad 'to this computer.  We do not use the cloud.

  I had an exchange of mail with the support of the IGG, but when we walked in the restoration of a previous automatic backup on the iPad, they were out of their depth.  I have no complaint with their support, they do not know where are stored the backups or how to proceed.

  So, that's where it gets interesting/frustrating.

  I try to use Time Machine to restore the App from a previous version in iTunes and then sync to iPad.

  I do not see the backup files to iPad specific laptop I use for backup "automatic" iTunes "to this computer.  I see the list of applications on the iPad iTunes in the ' users > Shared > iTunes > directory of Mobile Applications.  I'm going back in time in Time Machine to find the last backup the previous version of iBank has or Banktivity iTunes before 5.0.3... in the hopes of restoring just that specific app and data...

  ... Previous Time Machine backups have iBank or Banktivity listed in the applications!  I have looked far and sought to my heart's content, but none are here.  All other applications will appear in the list, but not iBank or Banktivity.  Now, I'm stumped... Why would not appear anywhere in the last backups?

  Having lost all historical and current in the iBank data are a pretty big disaster if I don't want to take the risk of ruining more by doing a partial or full restore iPad without understanding why the previous of iBank versions and/or Banktivity do not appear in the lists before the last manual of Time Machine backup?

  The iPad is an ideas, thoughts or suggestions would be most appreciated.

  Real applications are not stored in the backup (which contains the content of applications, your settings, documents, photos etc), restoration (backups are stored in ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/on a Mac, a backup is not designed to be readable by the user) would look to pick up the application of the section My Apps from your iTunes library - so looking for a old backup iPad in Time Machine won't help your find the app.

  As to why the app does not appear in your Time Machine backup of your folder "Mobile Applications", looking for the correct name of the application (the name that shows in your iTunes Apps my chapter cannot be the same as the file real .ipa computer/time Machine; some of my friends have very different names)?

• New facility for the Mavericks and Apps and recover backup from Time Machine?

  I 10.9.5 and backup on the time Machine: the system is slow and I would setup Mavericks and Apps from scratch.

  I downloaded the installation from the App Store, and I'll do a USB bootable pen.

  My problem is the following:

  "I have maybe picked up documents, Photos, movies, and the library of the backup in the Time Machine by automatic iTunes method or I have to do it manually?"

  Thank you much for the help

  Gricolomb

  When installation wizard runs after installation, if you are recovering your user, who must recover what you listed provided they are in the user photos, music and movies files.

• Backup from Time Machine not recognized

  Hello. I have a mid-2011 21 "iMac 2.8 GHz i7 with 16 GB of RAM, running 10.11.4, El Capitan. My old 1 TB HDD (HARD drive) was giving me problems (grinding and draw and he had considerably slowed down), so I backed up the computer with Time Machine (which I did for years), and I bought a 1 GB SSD from OWC replacement kit. I installed it in the hard drive, location in my iMac, reinstalled the operating system, and the new drive is running great. No problems with it.

  The drive Time Machine is a disk HARD Seagate 2 TB external drive connected by USB to the computer.

  So, my next step is to transfer the old news of Time Machine in the new drive. I tried first Assistant Setup in recovery mode, but the Machine of the time in the car was not found (recognized). When I started normally, the drive of the Time Machine is visible on my desktop, and backup files appear in there.

  So, then, I ran on the drive disk utility. I could not launch 'repair' the disk as a whole (the button is dimmed when I click on the disc), but I fix the partition on the disk. No not found errors.

  Then I went in the Migration Wizard to move the files. But I had the same problem as before - Migration Wizard does not see the Time Machine drive.

  So. I tried to enter Time Machine 'Star Wars' show on the computer and dated backups appear on the right side of the screen, but then, when I go to look at, it does not appear that there is something in them.

  I kept the old drive HARD and (in panic), I ordered a box to put the old drive, and I'll try to get the files this way. But, I still want to use the files on my Time Machine drive.

  At this point, the only thing I have to save my documents, my pictures and family videos and music. If only I could get in the 'Home' on my Time Machine backup folder by clicking on the player, I will manually install the files 'Desktop', 'Documents', 'Movies', 'Music' and 'pictures '. I don't know if this is possible, and I have never done this. I don't like not everything 'Applications', or anything else, so I'm willing to do the grunt work on those reinstall the old way. Can manually install you the items in the folder to the home page of Time Machine in another drive?

  Any advice you can give literally will save me! I'm kinda at a loss on what to do. The last time I used Time Machine to do this (to transfer the files on the iMac 2011) it worked like a charm.

  Thank you! Clay

  See if it's of any help. Section E

  http://pondini.org/TM/troubleshooting.html

  https://discussions.Apple.com/docs/doc-10081

• 'No available backup disk', Time Machine is not more Time Capsule

  I have a time Capsule 2 TB and it has been used by Time Machine for many months.

  A few days ago the Capsule detached from his power and today is now connected to the new.

  Time Machine reports the error "backup disc not available."

  Time Capsule lights are green, AirPort Utility is showing this device being lit also.

  Time Machine knows how much space is available on this unit. However, it is not able to use this device to register older backups or to create a new.

  I don't see this device in the Finder, although I couldn't see him there when everything is working well.

  Airport utility indicates an IP address for this device and I can ping.

  What to do now? Isn't it at least possible to mount to access the files on it?

  Hello sdrfliozuit76,

  Thank you for using communities Support from Apple!

  I understand your message that you are not able to back up your Mac with Time Machine and the error "backup disc not available."

  To continue troubleshooting this situation, I recommend reading and working through the following article and its suggested steps.

  If you cannot back up or restore your Mac with Time Machine - Apple Support

  Have a great day!