Time Machine password recovery

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• Time Machine on Recovery Mode

  I don't know what to do and how should I use Time Machine restore from the backup.

  My MacBook Pro does not start normally.

  I tried to Reinstall Mac OS X , but the disk is locked.

  I don't think that I backed up my Mac.

  I wrote this on Safari while on the Recovery Mode.

  If you have another Mac, take the reader of your MacBook Pro, put it in an external enclosure (2.5 inches SATA), plugged into your Mac to another and save it.

• Change password for Network Time Machine

  Hello.

  I used a time Machine to backup since 2010.  Recently, I changed the home network password Wifii.  The time Machine is more access to the network, and I do not know how to change its parameters, so it can re - connect on the same network.  When you open AirPort Utility, I can't click on the time Machine, it says "Device not found" and only offers me the option "Forget this device".  I must forget this device to start the process?

  I work on a MacBook Pro, OS 10.11.6 (El Capitan).

  Would appreciate your help.

  Tim

  Your best bet would be to connect a computer with AirPort Utility is installed via a cable ethernet to the time Capsule. This allows to connect back to the time Capsule to update your new password Wi - Fi settings.

• Failed to retrieve the passwords saved backup Time Machine

  Firefox 42 on OS X.

  To make a long story short, I accidentally uninstalled Firefox and deleted ALL of its associated files and cache and profile and everything.

  I use Time Machine, so don't panic. I have just re-installed Firefox and then copied all files from the most recent profile, before deleting saved on Time Machine in my new profile, and voila, all my bookmarks and modules returned.

  BUT... The only thing that is not much matter what I try is saved passwords/login information - I tried several times before to copy the backed up versions of the file signons.sqlite and signons3.txt, reset my computer, etc., but no matter what, when I go into "Saved passwords" it is always empty.

  I lose them forever? Is there something I can do?

  It was very good work. Play well.
  Please report your last post as solved while others will know.

• That the restoration of a backup time machine, a previous password change?

  That the restoration of a backup time machine, a previous password change?

  It could, if the last backup was performed before the change of password, and she understood this password file.

  But if you are missing a password, see this article on the search for your password with the keychain:

  Cess.html http://www.Macworld.com/article/2013756/How-to-Manage-passwords-with-keychain-AC

  The fact that Time Machine does not have backed up prior to the change, or discarded a way to backup older you may have missed an opportunity to save, if you have changed it.

• Is there an advantage to having a backup disk image of Macintosh HD (for MacBook Pro) to ease/speed of recovery after a disk failure rather than using Time Machine to recover?

  I'm trying to understand the best way to prepare for the recovery of a failure in the drive for a MacBook Pro.

  I do not understand the nuances of the time Machine - I know from personal experience that it is a recovery tool great when your existing drive is intact and you're just trying to restore a file.  But what happens if the drive has a hardware failure and needs to be replaced?

  Is there an advantage to take periodic images of Macintosh HD for quick recovery (and then using the incremental backups Time Machine to catch up to the current position).  Or Time Machine may facilitate a recovery in case of failure of the disc just as easily/quickly that will give it to have a separate image backup?

  Thanks in advance for your help.

  YES!.  If you have a clone boot disk, you can either connect it to a MBP or Exchange it with the internal HDD failed and be back in business quickly.  Time machine, as good as is, can take several hours to restore your system, depending on the amount of data.

  For cloning, I recommend Carbon Copy Cloner.  It is not free, but it's worth the price:

  https://Bombich.com/

  I use it in conjunction with Time Machine.  (two backups are better than one)

  Ciao.

• Mac does not start in recovery; could be related to Time Machine

  I recently bought a new Mac with El Capitan. Last night I finished a Time Machine backup to my old Mac (also El Capitan) and installed on the new Mac Time Machine backup.  When it was done installing, it has stopped working - I just hit a blue screen. After an hour or two, I restarted and it has never progressed beyond the Apple symbol and the spinning wheel.  I tried to reboot into Recovery Mode to try a re - install, but it won't let me.  I then went in Mode safe mode with set reports and he never finished, start the system, he kept having the same error pop up - 'tried to access a file compressed or unregistered type 7' or '8' again and again.

  I am at a loss.  Is it possible that I can boot into Recovery Mode, or otherwise get this machine to run?

  Thanks for your help.

  Start the MBP with the OPTION, COMMAND + R keys.

  Which should translate into a display showing a rotating globe:

  

  Following the directions, you will be connected to the servers Apple and power reinstall the original OSX.  You may need to wipe the HARD drive before installing the OSX.

  Ciao.

• How to join Time Machine to back up after I change my Time Capsule password?

  I changed my Time Capsule password using Airport utility, and now my Time Machine backup on my Time Capsule. How can I change the password for the Time Capsule disk so that it can continue to back up?

  How to change the word from Time Machine

  You can also try the Capsule in the Finder for editing by selecting the data folder. He will ask the password to connect to the time Capsule.

• Time machine does not take into account my partition which is case-sensitive.  Recovery has no data of this partition.

  I have a partition on my drive that is formatted for OS X Journaled, case sensitivity.  When I perform a backup, then recovery, all data in this partition is missing.  Time Machine does not recognize partitions of case-sensitive?  Strange, as the default format for Time Capsule itself is case sensitive.

  You cannot use the formatting case-sensitive with OS X. You will need to repartition the drive to Insensitive in full. You can not do any repairs or restore from a backup Time Machine.

• Pacifist software, stop Time Machine recovery

  Hello

  I have a Macbook updated 2009 level to El Capitan.

  When I try to retrieve a file from Time Machine I get a pacifist message, saying: I need to register to continue.

  I have not consciously responsible for this software and cannot remove it, because it does not appear in any directory.

  Howdy I get rid of it, or can I enroll?

  Concerning

  Alex Koscica

  You can more details on the message would have been pacifist?

  The demo version of the software CharlesSoft would go free...

  http://www.Charlessoft.com/

  old http://www.charlessoft.com/pacifist_olderversions.html

  But, you need to download yourself. Might be another

  software attempts to usurp the name of pacifist to get you to load it.

  Never seen the problem and I used several versions of pacifist.

  And I get software from the sites official and no softonic, etc..

  Maybe someone will post and will advise long which will show you

  you a list of things currently running on the computer, which may point to which

  the point is that you see; and maybe offer indicate you its location.

  Machines in general time & OS X tips:

  http://pondini.org/OSX/home.html

  With the help of Recovery HD tips:

  http://pondini.org/OSX/RecoveryHD.html

  • OS X: on OS X Recovery - Apple Support

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

  Maybe you could see if the Etrecheck report may give clues?

  I do not use it, but it has helped in some cases to display system information.

  Can't say that I saw the message declare you any pacifist.

  There are several things about Recovery Time Machine and OS X

  It is perhaps interesting to look sorry to not be of much help here.

  Good luck in this case!

• Time machine - external hard drive recovery

  I used time machine to back up my mac and an external hard drive. If I unplug the external drive and enter time machine, I can see no longer the external hard drive.

  If my external drive is lost or stolen, how access backup?

  You can not. If you are worried he'll get lost or stolen, get an external one, make a backup and keep this one in a very safe place.

• Time Machine NAS RAID

  Goal: large, reliable Time Machine back-up.

  (No purpose: archiving.) I do that separately on optical carriers per year, double copies, which goes off site. I understand that optical media can degenerate over time - even if some are marketed as "of archive-quality" - and therefore based on a cloud of archiving is the way to go but for now he takes too much bandwidth and I'm worried about security. I recently got a burner external blu - ray: exceptional.)

  Question: can I use RAID for Time Machine if I connect by USB directly on my computer?

  Issue 1: reliability external drive. This has happened twice that I bought a property, brand, large external hard drive and was prematurely fail at a difficult time. My local computer guru said "it happens" and is "unpredictable" and just buy a new one, most won't. Or, for better quality, get a NAS - network attached storage that can be attached, they have the temperature control, mine is a RAID 2 discs, so there is that the degree of redundancy - but not, I learn, protect against a corrupt Time Machine backup and that can happen, or power increases (although it is on a high-tech power bar) , or theft, etc.

  Problem 2: using NAS, which I connected to a Terminal Airport Express via an Ethernet cable - if connected to the computer by WiFi - the Time Machine backup becomes a "sparsebundle" (set of files, in fact), encrypted file with password (?) drive access. However, this was work and I did a full restore of your data (no 'system') the other day with Migration Wizard when I got a new hard drive installed in my old iMac (also upgraded at the time of 10.9 to 10.11). It took over all night, but the wonder of wonders, it chugged along and finished and seems fine. (I have not checked tens of thousands of files individually!)

  (My SIN explicitly supports Time Machine, and I checked that box in the configuration of the SIN, and it seemed to work.) I didn't have to leave the mounted drive. Time Machine found hourly and used invisibly in the background.)

  Problem 3: I have rename my hard drives for some reason any and do not remember quite what its name was. I wonder if this is part of my problem (read more). But there is a method in Time Machine to 'Browse other discs of backup. " I was looking for a file that I kept outside my usual login "user" and so had not been returned when I used Migration Assistant for data recovery only.

  However, when I do this, then nothing is there. I've learned that sometimes, with an encrypted sparsebundle, wireless backup, you will have to let Time Machine sit for a few minutes before the back-ups start to appear, but now, with my new hard drive (with a new name) and the new version of the OS, there is simply nothing; just 'today' that shows only my current hard drive status. Obviously, there was something, or Migration Assistant wouldn't have worked, but during the inspection of the backup via Time Machine, the file seems to be here (whatever_my_computer - name_was.sparsebundle), but it is empty.

  If I just try to navigate in the Finder to the sparsebundle NAS Time Machine, I can find it but not to open it. Double click: nothing happens. It is not that I forgot to connection settings, this is what it do not ask me for them.

  This happened to me twice and the first time was the day after archiving (luck and good planning) and I thought that it is a kind suddenly lucky, but now it happened again.

  So, I tried a bit of searching and not found a clear answer to my question above. I do not see these links:

  TEM http://www.petemarovichimages.com/2013/11/24/Never-use-a-RAID-As-Your-Backup-sys.

  https://support.Apple.com/en-CA/HT201250

  https://discussions.Apple.com/thread/3837784?start=0 & tstart = 0

  https://discussions.Apple.com/thread/7448896?start=0 & tstart = 0

  https://discussions.Apple.com/thread/5849068?TSTART=0

  Of them, it seems that a NAS that has an explicit ability to Time Machine might work (mine did), but is not fully functional, not approved by Apple and is completely unpredictable. My limits are described above. (I work around them).

  However, moving forward: I have this RAID 2 discs sitting around, seemingly more reliable than a drive external non-temperature controlled, and I wonder about the connection by USB directly on my computer. What is the downside of this? That is my question. Who will 'normally' work as a Time Machine backup external drive?

  Another option is to get two large external hard drives and the value of Time Machine to switch between the two. I have not tried, but apparently it was possible for the last iterations little Mac OS X.

  I have important data that requires careful management.

  Thank you all,

  Charles

  I use a direct attached Drobo (it is a very easy to use RAID device).

  I've always had problems with Time Machine on the network, so I stopped using it in this way. I've never had problems with the TimeMachine and direct-attached storage.

  With the Drobo if a disk goes bad, I buy a replacement and hot it swap for the failed drive.

• Problem restoring stuck MacBook Pro system and time machine

  This morning my retina MBP (El Cap 10.11.4, updated about a week ago) has frozen. It was working fine yesterday, but wake from sleep this morning nothing would go, apps wouldn't start, nothing, so I rebooted. He got about a third of the way between the progress bar white on black screen and hung with a spinning wheel.

  Then I tried to secure boot and made me to the login screen, but it still turns after that I entered the password. (The guest account and the other I put in place but rarely use seem to work well, it's just me hanging). Reset NVRAM made no difference.

  Then I went to recovery mode and has conducted an audit of disk first aid, who reported no problems. So, I used the disk utility to make a disk image to backup to an external drive and then to the Time Machine system restore. However, it asks for the password for 'System administrator' and rejects everything I try. The TC is configured as "Discs safe with accounts" (not ' device password') and there are two custom accounts and the wifi password. I can't check my backup settings now, but I think that it is only for my account, so I wonder if even is a system restore file. I would try to change the airport disk access settings but I'm afraid it will just trash my backups.

  Suggestions for free my Mac or enter the system restore (or restore just my account) until I try a reinstall?

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• New router lost Time MAchine

  Now later in my problems without end with networking...

  This morning I installed a new router (former a packed) which is identical to the former - a BT Home Hub 5.

  I had a list established this:

  

  ... that is the time Machine / aka basic Station (why there so many names!) has been connected to my network via Wi - Fi.

  Now I have the new road, everything is set back to how it was before aside, I lost the TC. The reason is that the new router, even if I have named themselves, they have different WiFi key password (of course).

  I see this now:

  

  I can see in the upper left corner, he found a point WiFi (TC), but whenever I'm going to add it, it seems to want to replace one of my other components. All I want to do is get back to where I was, with her concected 'Abbey Home Office' and not 'Cook' etc. I join my back ups of the last year to be always accessible! This is the point of a Machine of time after all...

  When I installed it initially, I'm sure that I had to set up wired - but can I use the WAN or LAN port on the TC and can I connect on the Mac or the router.

  So confused...

  It really should connect the TC in one of the other airports... the main router or what you called Hub... it makes no difference as long as the main router is also a gigabit.

  Setup the TC in bridge mode and create a... wireless network you can use the same name for the wireless as the rest of your network... but it should be noted that this sometimes causes issues if you have the computer plugged into another airport or the main router... for now a problem... Time Capsule recovery online... (It's a Capsule time btw...) Time Machine is the software on the computer that performs the backup... the two are not related in any way, but apple has mightily confused the issue. )

  If the automatic configuration does not do it manually.

  Here is my latest version of el capo...

  Re: Failure airport Time Capsule?

• Time Machine broke my office

  My story I had just to edit a picture on my desk at the right size.

  "Not much". I thought "I'll just use time machine."

  I want to use time machine, but my macbook pro crashed and had to restart. I went back to time machine and tried.

  Files said they copied, but I can not find them and when I go to the finder and try to get into the office, it says quote "cannot open the folder"desktop"because you don't have permission to view its contents."

  So what I do now?

  Thank you for your help,

  Alex

  Please, back up all data before proceeding.

  This procedure will unlock all your user (not system files) files and reset their ownership, permissions and default access controls. If you have voluntarily set special values for these attributes on any of your files, they will be be restored. In this case, either stop there, or be ready to recreate the settings if necessary. Do that after checking these settings that did not cause the problem. If none of that is meaningful to you, you need not worry about this, but do not follow the instructions below.

  Step 1

  If you have more than one user, and the one in question is not an administrator, then go to step 2.

  Triple-click anywhere in the next line to this page to select this option:

  sudo find ~ $TMPDIR.. -exec chflags -h nosappnd,noschg,nosunlnk,nouappnd,nouchg {} + -exec chown -h $UID {} + -exec chmod +rw {} + -exec chmod -h -N {} + -type d -exec chmod -h +x {} + 2>&-

  Copy the selected text in the Clipboard by pressing Control-C key combination.

  Launch the Terminal application integrated in one of the following ways:

  ☞ Enter the first letters of his name in a Spotlight search. Select from the results (it should be at the top).

  ☞ In the Finder, select go utilities ▹ of menu bar or press the combination of keys shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.

  ☞ Open LaunchPad and start typing the name.

  Paste in the Terminal window by pressing Command + V. I tried these instructions only with the Safari browser. If you use another browser, you may need to press the return key after pasting.

  You will be asked your password of connection that are not displayed when you type. Type carefully, and then press return. You can get a warning to be careful. If you do not have a password, you will need to configure one before you can run the command. If you see a message that your user name "is not in the sudoers file", then you have not logged as an administrator.

  The command may take several minutes to run, depending on the number of files you have. Wait for a new line ending with a dollar sign ($) to appear, and then quit Terminal.

  Step 2 (optional)

  Take this step only if you have trouble with the phase 1, if you prefer not to consider, or if this does not resolve the problem.

  Start in recovery mode. You may be prompted to select a language, then the OS X Utilities appears.

  If you use FileVault 2, select disk utility, then select the icon for the volume FileVault startup ("Macintosh HD", unless you have given it a different name.) It will be nested under another icon of the disc. Select open in the file menu and enter your login password when you are prompted. Then quit disk utility must be returned to the main screen.

  Select

  Utilities ▹ Terminal

  in the menu bar. It will open a Terminal window. In this window, type this:

  resetp

  Press the tab key. The partial order you entered will automatically end this:

  resetpassword

  Press return. Opens a window to reset the password. You do not need to reset a password.

  Select your boot volume ("Macintosh HD", unless you have given it a different name) if not already selected.

  Select your username in the menu option allows you to select the account if not already selected.

  Under Reset Home Directory Permissions and ACLs, click the reset button.

  Select

  ▹ Restart 

  in the menu bar.