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• 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

• Restore Time Machine wifi data in neutral

  Help! Today I return MacBook Air of my wife in an Apple Store. They fixed a software problem. Apple wiped the hard drive, but the Air has been saved our Time Machine network. Apple has installed the latest OS X, but not the data of my wife. This, I thought, would be easy and simple.

  The problem is with the restore / recover the process. The recovery process looks fine. I selected the data to be restored and the 40,000 more files seem to be download nominally and after about 20 minutes, he seemed to be almost done.

  However, the process is at a standstill, apparently at the end. On the page titled "Transfer of information", it says "one minute remaining to 17 MB/s". While the number of MB/s continues to fluctuate (10, 18, 15, etc.), this statement is still. (see image below) It has been like this for more than one 1 & 1/2 hours.

  I am following up the wifi connection and it is strong and fast.

  Should I click Cancel and see what happens? Suggestions

  

  It won't hurt to let you it run for a few hours.

  If it succeeds, then stop and restart the computer and the TC.

  Don't allow TM to do a new backup... it's essential... you must first pick up these files...

  No chance you can do a full restore to a new location. It's pretty simple to do... but the wizard configuration rather than migration.

  See using the Migration Wizard

• Backup Restore Time Machine: not enough space

  Hi all, I am a neophyte tech so forgive me if I'm not clear. I will try to explain the problem as best I can:

  I have an old MacBook 2009 running Mountain Lion. A few months ago, my brother gave me his old Pro and so my MacBook 2009 fell by the wayside. I used an external hard drive with that old computer as my backup time machine, but as I tried to transfer a lot of documents and photos and update of dropbox and download photos of google and to understand each of these things as I went along, I totally messed up the MacBook. Just... things are weird... nothing was, where it used to be and my photos were gone and Yes, much of this is probably down to me trying to understand a bunch of new programs at once, BUT what I want to do is to restore it to the way it was using a time machine backup.

  So, I googled around and I know when I start it up until I'm supposed to press Ctrl + R and choose the backup that I want, but when it gets to the part where I select a destination and click the only option (the Mac HD), an error message appears with a yellow flag saying "this disc is not enough space to restore your system.

  Now, I don't really know what that means, but what I want to do is to get rid of the current way, this computer is completely and attach it to the way it was when I did the last Time Machine backup.

  Someone help me please... this stuff is so frustrating when I can't figure it out for me and I am sure that there is an easy solution. I read a lot about partitions etc. but I don't know what all of this means that even.

  Thank you in advance!

  Alexandria

  Boot into Recovery now command + R to start. Choose disk utility and erase the boot volume, it should be named Macintosh HD, unless you renamed it. When the erase is quit disk utility and choose to restore from your Time Machine backup. OS X: on OS X Recovery - Apple Support

• 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?

• Restored Time Machine not listed e-mails is not in the mail

  I am running Yosemite and Mail 8.2. Somehow, I lost my entire mailbox. I went to Time Machine to do a restore to my Inbox. I have 6700 + emails. I select them all and click on restore. The computer does its thing and then displays a message saying 6700 + restored messages. Yet, nothing shows up in my Mail box. I tried with different numbers of email even only selected messages. No luck. While they hide somewhere?

  Thanks in advance for the help. I feel very lost without my e-mails.

  They are not restored directly to the Inbox. They will be in a restored file slot on my Mac. If this section is not expanded, place the cursor on it and choose display. Look for the restored mailbox. You can select the messages here and move them where you need.

• Photos say too old version after restoring from Time Machine

  I tried to update my wife 5 c's iPhone but iTunes (version 12.4.3.1) kept saying unknown error (-50). I read that a possible problem might be something on an xml file in the pictures with a conflict or missing. I thought that this might be a good time to try my first restore with Time Machine. I thought I would restore Photos only a few hours of this day. While I was doing that in the middle of the restore, Time Machine was trying to make it's hourly backup and I got an exclamation point saying that he was unable to save. After the backup is complete, I tried to open the pictures and it says "library old Version, please update your library 'Photos' using iPhoto free library upgrade available at Apple. So I downloaded the file .dmg and still nothing. I don't want even if an earlier version of Photos, I want to what I had and I thought of making a time Machine would be restore was supposed to get back to how I had it. My Time Machine works again but the new backup, he's trying to back up my photo library. I know because I recognize the size of the backups as being the same size as my library of Photos. I went about this Mac and checked the storage. He showed my disk as empty and my regular hard drive on my Macbook Pro (retina 13 "- beginning 2015") showed use of backup almost exactly the same size as my library of Photos. A few moments later my external drive shows correct usage, but big backup on my regular HD space always shows the same backup use suggesting that it stores my library as a backup, or at least that's my guess. One thing that I tried was the Option key pressed when opening pictures to try to select another library that I have an old migrated iPhotos library in my folder of photos I thought that maybe Photos was trying to open. As a side question I was wondering if I could remove the migrated iPhotos library as whenever I click on it, more or less said that he has already been migrated, he discovers in a compatible version of Photos. I hope that I have given all the good news. If I'm missing something I apologize. I'm under El Captain 10.11.6

  I thought I would restore Photos only a few hours of this day. While I was doing that in the middle of the restore, Time Machine was trying to make it's hourly backup and I got an exclamation point saying that he was unable to save. After the backup is complete, I tried to open the pictures and it says "library old Version, please update your library 'Photos' using iPhoto free library upgrade available at Apple.

  What did restore exactly the time Machine? You write "Restore Photos", indicating you restored the Photos app, but the error messages seem to apply to the photo library.  You have restored a library of old Photos?  If you restored the photo library, try to open it directly by double clicking it or dragging it to the Photos icon in the Dock.

• Restored HD from a Time Machine backup of my old iMac (stolen) from my new MacBook Pro.  Not all the files have been restored.

  My iMac 27 "(2011) so my wife 13 '' MacBook Pro (2011) were recently stolen after our House was robbed.  My wife got a new MacBook Pro and I restored it successfully its data (selected "backup restore Time Machine" during the installation of its new MacBook Pro).  However, I also got a new 15 "MacBook Pro in lieu of the iMac 27".  I have, once again, selected "Restore from Time Machine backup" (selected the iMac as the backup source) when installing my new MacBook Pro.  When it was finally over, I told Time Machine to inherit from the backup.  Unfortunately, none of the files in the My Documents folder or the photos in my photo library have been restored.  Was it a bad idea to try to use the backup of the iMac as a source for the MacBook Pro (both running El Capitan)?

  is it possible that your documents are stored on another drive which was not part of the backup plan? or is the HD in the big enough MBP to inherent the old backup.

  If you open the time machine with the original backup disc, you should be able to browse the content

  

  If the files are found, you can restore by right-clicking (or CTRL + left mouse)

• Restoration of music iTunes & playlists from Time Machine

  For some unexplained reason, iTunes decided to forget all my music and lists reading, although nothing had been knowingly changed. As much as iTunes is concerned, I don't have music and playlists.

  I see all the music is still on my hard drive, so import again would be probably to load my music into iTunes, but I have a number of large playlists that I also want to preserve.  I thought that it is better to ask advice before rushing in and possibly make things worse.

  My hard drive is backed up with Time Machine daily. What is the best way to return to how it was using TM?  What files should be restored?

  Try to hold down the option/ALT key at startup of iTunes and select the iTunes Library.itl file in the iTunes folder. If it's not search with spotlight.

  If necessary:

  Message from ludovic 06/2014: library iTunes backup restore Time Machine - https://discussions.apple.com/message/26104480#26104480 useful advice where to restore to a new drive: http://pondini.org/TM/B6.html -> https://web.archive.org/web/20150511032110/http://pondini.org/OSX/Home.html and https://discussions.apple.com/message/27599985#27599985 make sure you go back enough for the version you want.  If Time Machine backup just the version "later" may be one you don't want to.

• Fusion drive: restore from Time Machine - "the disc cannot be erased."

  Hello

  On a new iMac (end of 2015), I need to wipe my drive of Fusion of 3 TB (El Capitan, unencrypted, just 1 partition, no Boot Camp partition) and then restore a backup Time Machine (made on a previous iMac, also with disc Fusion of 3 TB (El Capitan, unencrypted, just 1 partition, no Boot Camp partition).

  According to the document from Apple: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204904 'restore from a Time Machine backup' I...

  1. restart with cmd + R (later also tried cmd + alt + R and also a USB bootable of course El flash drive)

  2 selected "backup restore Time Machine"

  3 selected my external backup disk, Time Machine

  4 choose the most recent backup

  5 selected "Macintosh HD" as a destination and click "continue".

  ... but then the following message appeared "disc cannot be erased.

  

  Then I tried to erase 'Macintosh HD' via disk utility:

  1. restart with cmd + R (later also tried cmd + alt + R and also a USB bootable of course El flash drive)

  2 choose disk utility

  3 choose "Macintosh HD"

  4. click on tab "delete".

  5. click on the button 'clear '.

  ... then I got the error message:

  "Clear process failed..." Details: Dismantling DIS3 - deletion of logical volumes of the logical volume group - cannot remove the basic storage logical volume. Operation failed... »

  I was in the 'loop', the only way out was to "Reinstall Mac OS X", and then after many hours, he had once again my old installation flubbed with everything I wanted to get rid of!

  How to restore my backup Time Machine - nothing more or less - to my new iMac?

  I lost 3 days now with this problem. I really hope someone has a solution.

  Thank you very much!

  Apple did not provide an easy way to recover from this condition. If you are not able to carry out these instructions, please someone more experienced to help you get. One option is to take an appointment 'Genius' on an Apple Store.

  Starts the Internet recovery mode by pressing the key combination command-option-R to start ringing. Release the keys when you see a spinning globe.

  Note: You need an Ethernet or Wi - Fi connection permanent Internet to use recovery. It will not work with modems USB or PPPoE, proxy servers or networks that require a certificate for authentication.

  In the OS X Utilities screen, select

  Utilities ▹ Terminal

  in the menu bar at the top of the screen, not one of the items in the OS X Utilities window.

  Follow the steps in this thread to ASC to split the fuser unit. The long string of letters, numbers and dashes you will need to enter will be different in your case. Copy and paste into the command in the Terminal window.

  This will remove all data from the fuser unit, then you had better be sure of your backups.

  Quit the Terminal, and then repair the Fusion drive (see "Troubleshooting" on the linked page.)

  Quit disk utility. Then you should be able to install OS X and restore your data from a backup in the main screen.

• Loading iTunes library of old, defunct macbook to new macbook using backups Time Machine

  Hello. How can I get iTunes library from my old Macbook loaded on my new Macbook using the backup Time Machine that exists from the old machine. The new mac is connected to the time machine, I can open Time machine, see the backups, but get nowhere when you attempt to load the library in iTunes on my new Macbook. I see the file .itl from the old machine to backups... where can I go from here?

  The iTunes library on the new machine is empty, so save is not a matter of concern.

  Thank you!

  Message from ludovic 06/2014: library iTunes backup restore Time Machine - https://discussions.apple.com/message/26104480#26104480 useful advice where to restore to a new drive: http://pondini.org/TM/B6.html -> https://web.archive.org/web/20150511032110/http://pondini.org/OSX/Home.html and https://discussions.apple.com/message/27599985#27599985 make sure you go back enough for the version you want.  If Time Machine backup just the version "later" may be one you don't want to.

• Time machine and Spotlight corruption

  My time Maxhine back up not ended. I realized that I got and I canceled the back upward.

  I used my second disc for the back and finished. When I went about this Mac it was completely blue. I reindexed my hard drive. While the result is not perfect, it is now. And I saved since.  My concern now is:

  1. are my ups back corrupt and if so it ruins so any chance of

  2. a successful restore, time machine? Because it looks like my hard drive needs to replace.

  Thank you

  h

  1. check if your backups are ok by checking.

  Option, click the Time Machine icon in the menu bar. Select check... and let it run. You should have the computer connected by ethernet to it to drive at a reasonable speed.

  2. He will restore successfully as long as you choose the date before your main drive is corrupt... You already have a copy of your TM backup on the second disc, which is good. Check that one too... so do not touch again...

  Get the player on the computer has replaced as soon as POSSIBLE... so it is still viable to use as source of files... don't wait to total collapse.

• Corruption of the spotlight for a time Machine backup

  My time Maxhine back up not ended. I realized that I got and I canceled the back upward.

  I used my second disc for the back and finished. When I went about this Mac it was completely blue. I reindexed my hard drive. While the result is not perfect, it is now. And I saved since.  My concern now is:

  1. are my ups back corrupt and if so it ruins so any chance of

  2. a successful restore, time machine? Because it looks like my hard drive needs to replace.

  Thank you

  h

  Try to use the Time Machine application to see if the backup is loading properly. If so, your backups should be good. You can also go into the Time Machine menu, while holding down the option/alt key and select verify backups. For more information of reset, see A4 & A5 in the first linked article.

  Troubleshooting of Time Machine

  Solving the problems of Time Machine

• Incompatibility of CC and Apple Time Machine for backup of the system?

  I was given this information by a Support person above Adobe technique by CAT yesterday.  The technical support I received was well below the Adobe standards.

  The question of Time Machine was just submitted to our Apple dealer and consultant for advice.  Time Machine has been implemented on my system by Apple technology in 2012 without problems.

  The Adobe Tech ID:24765035 person changed my investigation and remove the creative cloud of my computer without my request.

  I've been subscribed to the plan of CC photography for only 18 months, but am concerned about problems / questions like this.

  I would much appreciate your help.

  Thank you!

  Diane

  I don't know what your question, but it may (or may not) be useful:

  system restore time-machine and windows both seem to cause a lot of problems with adobe products.

  Once this happens, the only solution is (AFAIK) to uninstall all the programs of issues (i.e., full suite/version), specific to the use of the Adobe Creative Cloud cleaning tool to solve installation problems , then reinstall.

  to reinstall the product cc, install the application of cc, Download Adobe Creative Cloud apps desktop | CC free trial Adobe and use the desktop application to install your programs of cc.

• Duplication, but restoration not Photos of Time machine

  I have a large collection of Photos stored on my external HD that contains thousands of faces defined. Trying to solve a problem of random reboot on my new iMac, by Apple, I eliminated the files of faces in the Photos on this computer, but believe that the face IDS are intact on the external hard drive because it has not been used recently for TM backups. The last time that he saved, he supported Photos that still had the names linked to the faces. Before I take the Time Machine, I want to copy the Photos, including the names of face, of a flash drive for safes (and possibly add that the names back into the Photos once that resolve us the problem of random restart). But I can only figure out how to 'restore' Photos of Time Machine. I don't want to restore the old file Photos, because the Faces can be the source of our problem of ransom-restart. Instead, I just want to download my last copy of TM's Photos, including the names, on a drive connected to the iMac. Can someone tell me how to download the most recent file of Photos of my external hard drive to a flash drive without updating the files of Photos now running on the iMac? Thanks for the tips!

  You can not copy pieces of backups TM TM don't just clone files but save changes and maintains a database showing how to reassemble the file from a specified date - you can use the software TM to restore the things - you can restore to an alternate location and then select the restored library - however It is not recommended to make changes to the content of the photo library using external software because the library is a very complex SQLite database and any change can corrupt him causing loss of data

  LN