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For quite some time now, Time Machine has been the go-to backup app for most Mac users. It’s the heart of my personal backup system, and knowing I could recover my files quickly if my Mac’s drive ever failed keeps me feeling safe.

1. Restore Data From Time Machine To New Mac
2. Using Time Machine To Restore
3. How To Restore From Time Machine Backup
4. Restore Applications From Time Machine To New Mac

But what if it wasn’t just the drive that failed, but your Mac that gave up the ghost? Unless you’re willing to run down to a local Mac reseller and pick up whatever Mac is on the shelf, it would likely take you some time to select a new Mac and have it shipped to you (or to your local store). In the same vein, getting your Mac fixed could also turn out to be a long wait. In the meantime, how do you access the files you need right away?

There are a couple of ways to gain access to your Time Machine backup files, depending on the computer you’ll be using in the interim. If you have access to a Mac, the process is fairly simple. Just plug your Time Machine drive into the available Mac, option-click the Time Machine menu bar item, and select Browse Other Backup Disks.

Time Machine in macOS can work within a number of apps, letting you retrieve older versions of files or even deleted email messages in the Mail app. However, if an entire folder of stuff goes away. Jun 18, 2010  You use the Time Machine application to browse your archives and restore files. This is located in your Applications folder, and is placed in the Dock by default on new Mac user accounts.

Aug 01, 2015  One of the primary benefits of using Time Machine is that it allows you to restore your backup on a new Mac or a new macOS installation. This makes it so that you can essentially pick up where you left off from your old machine or old installation. Fortunately, restoring Time Machine backups to a new Mac is extremely easy and straightforward. While there may be several backups in the list, it’s also normal to see only one: the most current Time Machine backup for this Mac. Select the backup to use, and click the Continue button. Migration Assistant will display the types of data that can be transferred from the Time Machine backup to your Mac’s startup drive. Mar 16, 2018  If you do have a Mac nearby, you can always connect that Time Machine drive to the Mac, hold the Option key, click the Time Machine icon on the menu bar, and select “Browse Other Backup Disks.” You can then extract your important files from the Time Machine backup and copy them to an external drive formatted with the FAT32 file system.

If your temporary computer is a Windows PC, the process is a bit more involved.

We’re going to take a look at the worst-case scenario, which is to have a Windows PC be the only option. And no, I don’t mean using a PC is the worst thing. It’s just that since there’s no version of Time Machine that runs on Windows, you have to be a bit creative to gain access to your backups.

Accessing Time Machine Backups From a Windows PC
We’re going to start this process with an assumption: your Time Machine backup was on an external drive that was connected to your Mac via one of the many flavors of USB. If instead you’re using a Thunderbolt external, check the enclosure to see if it has a USB port; many Thunderbolt enclosures support both USB and Thunderbolt.

Shut down your PC and then connect the Time Machine external to the PC via USB.

Turn on both the external drive and the PC.

How to Access an HFS+ File System From a PC
You’ll notice that nothing happens; that is to say, the Time Machine drive doesn’t appear on the PC. That’s because Windows is natively unable to access drives formatted using the Mac’s HFS+ file system. You can, however, use third-party apps that provide support for HFS+ such as:

• MacDrive: Mediafour’s MacDrive is an app that allows you to mount, read, and write to HFS+ drives on a Windows PC. MacDrive includes its own app for viewing Mac drives, but it also works in the background to allow Windows Explorer and other native Windows apps to access your Mac formatted drives.

HFS+ for Windows and MacDrive are commercial apps, though they do offer short-term demos that can be used to transfer a few of your most needed Mac files. They provide the best integration of the HFS+ file system for Windows, and they don’t require the installation of a Java Runtime Environment to work.

Once you select and install one of the file system utilities listed above, you’ll be able to mount your Time Machine drive on your Windows PC as if it were just another external drive.

HFSExplorer uses its own HFSExplorer app that mimics the Windows Explorer app, with a few extra steps to manually load Mac external drives so they can be viewed in the app.

You can find details about using the HFSExplorer app and loading file systems from the HFSExplorer link, above.

Both HFS+ for Windows and MacDrive allow you to use Windows Explorer to access the Time Machine drive without any special steps needed; the Time Machine drive will be automatically mounted in Windows Explorer.

Recovering Files From Your Time Machine Backup
Once your Time Machine drive is mounted on your Windows PC, you’ll find the file organization fairly straightforward, letting you easily dive down through the folders to retrieve a needed document.

Starting at the top level of the Time Machine drive, open the Backups.backupdb folder.

Within the Backups.backupdb folder, you’ll find folders for each Mac that was using the drive for backups. For most of us, this will be a single folder with our Mac’s name; in my case, I have a single folder named Tom’s iMac. But you could see multiple folders if you were backing up multiple Macs to the same Time Machine drive.

Open the folder with your Mac’s name.

Depending on how large your backups are, it may take a little while for Windows to populate the Explorer window; so, be patient. Eventually you’ll see a collection of folders using the date and time as their names. There will also be one folder, actually a symbolic link (a folder with a small arrow in the bottom corner), named Latest.

Tip: Click on the Date Modified field in Windows Explorer to sort by date. When the chevron just above the words Date Modified is pointing down, the files and folders will be sorted with the newest on top.

If you wish to access the current version of a backed up file, open the folder named Latest. If you’re using HFSExplorer, it may ask you if you want to follow symbolic links while extracting. Click the Yes button to ensure the complete file is copied when you perform an extraction with the app. Windows Explorer will correctly follow links without the need to have any preference set.

Tip: When you try to open the Latest shortcut, if you receive a message that a folder can’t be found, you can get around the issue by just opening the folder with the latest date. If you used the tip above to sort by date, the folder you wish to open will be at or near the top of the list. Just make sure it has the newest date and time stamp.

If you want to recover an older version of a file, you can do so selecting one of the folders named with a date and time stamp that corresponds to the time frame you’re looking for.

No matter which folder you open, the latest or an older folder, you’ll see one or more folders corresponding to the drives on your Mac you were backing up. In many cases, there will only be one; your startup drive, which is usually named Macintosh HD, though it could have any name, depending on how you customized your Mac.

Open the startup drive folder.

You’ll see multiple files and folders that replicate the organization of your Mac’s startup drive. To find your documents, open the following folder:

Users, yourHomeFolder, where yourHomeFolder is the name of your user account on your Mac. For example, mine is Users/tnelson.

Here you’ll find all of the files and folders normally found in your Mac’s home folder. You can navigate from here to find specific files you need.

Using Your Mac Files on Your PC
If you’re using HFS+ for Windows, or MacDrive, you can work with the Mac files just as if they were native PC files. You can open them in various Windows apps and make use of their content. As an example, you should be able to open a Word file in Microsoft Word, a text file in any text editor, spreadsheets in spreadsheet apps; you get the idea. There will be some documents that have no equivalent app that will be able to open them in Windows. You can still move these files around and copy them to another device, such as a USB flash drive formatted with FAT32 or exFAT, which can be used on Macs, Windows, and Linux, where you can probably find an app that can work with them.

If you open a document in a Windows app and then save it, it will be saved in the native format of the app. So, that Mac Word document would become a Windows Word document. Saving the file to a drive formatted with NTFS will save the file in the NTFS format. You can save the file to the original Time Machine drive, but I don’t recommend saving it to any location within the Backups.backupdb folder. Instead, save the file to the top level of the Time Machine drive. Saving anywhere within the Backups.backupdb folder can lead to corruption of the Time Machine database.

If you’re using HFSExplorer to access your Time Machine documents, you must first extract the files you wish to work with to a Windows drive. Details on the extraction process are available in the link to HFSExplorer, above.

Moving Files Back to Your Mac
If you’ve decided to continue to use the PC, then you’re all set; simply copy the files you need from the Time Machine drive to your PC. If you ever need a file or two you forgot to copy, you can just reconnect the Time Machine backup, and repeat the process above.

If you’re only using the PC temporarily, you can make use of the Time Machine drive, and either HFS+ for Windows or MacDrive, to copy the document files you need back to the top level of the Time Machine drive. Unfortunately, HFSExplorer can’t write to HFS+ drives; it can only read their data.

Remember! Do not write any data to the Backups.backupdb folder on the Time Machine drive. Instead, just save the files to the top level of the drive.

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Time Machine is certainly an easy-to-use app for backing up your data. It’s free, and comes installed and ready to use with the Mac OS. In many of our Rocket Yard guides, we’ve often suggested that you perform a backup before proceeding with the rest of the steps in the guide. And for many people, that backup will be performed with Time Machine.

While we often recommend creating a backup so you can recover data should something go wrong, we rarely tell you how to recover the data.

In this Rocket Yard guide, we look at the three most often used methods to recover data from a Time Machine backup.

Restoring a Full Time Machine Backup

When I think of performing a full restore from a Time Machine backup, it may be because I messed up my Mac once again, or perhaps my old startup drive that I thought would make it another few months decided today was the day to keel over, or maybe that new faster drive has arrived and it’s time to add additional whiz bang to my Mac. No matter the reason, doing a full restore isn’t difficult, though sometimes the process isn’t well understood.

A full restore is different from using the Time Machine interface to restore a few files. Many of us have never witnessed the full restore process, even though we’re using Time Machine as our primary backup system. And I suppose that’s a good thing, but it’s a good idea to have a working knowledge of the process should you ever need to recover from some type of disaster to your Mac.

There are two types of full restore; the first recovers all of the backup data, including the Mac OS, apps, documents, settings, etc., that were part of a backup. The second method recovers only the apps, documents, settings, and lots of miscellaneous items, but doesn’t recover the Mac OS. The second method is used when you’ve already performed a clean install of the OS and only wish to have your files and apps restored.

The first method is a full restore that includes the Mac OS, and can leave your Mac exactly like it was when the last backup was performed.

We will start with the first method.

Warning: The full restore of both the Mac OS and all your files will erase all of the current content of the startup volume and replace it with the data from the selected backup.

Make sure the Time Machine drive is operational and connected to your Mac.

Turn your Mac off, if it’s running.

Start your Mac while holding down the Command (⌘) and R keys. This will force your Mac to start up in Recovery mode.

Continue to hold down the Command and R keys until you see the macOS Utilities window.

Select the Restore From Time Machine Backup item, and then click the Continue button.

The Restore from Time Machine pane will appear. It provides a brief description of what restoring will do. Read the information, and then click Continue.

The Select a Restore Source option will appear; you can pick the Time Machine backup volume to use, or a Time Machine Local Snapshot. Make your choice, then click the Continue button.

A list of available backups will be displayed. Each item in the list is a complete backup, and will display the time and date the backup was created, as well as the version of the Mac OS being used.

Make your selection, and click the Continue button.

The Select a Destination option will be displayed. This list contains volumes connected to your Mac that can be used as the target for the restore.

Make your selection, and click the Restore button.

The restore will commence; once it’s complete you can restart your Mac.

Restoring All of Your User Files

Time Machine can also be used to restore all of your documents, apps, and files, essentially everything but the Mac OS. This method of restoring can be appropriate if you performed a clean install of the Mac OS in order to fix a problem you were having with the system.

If you need instructions on performing a clean install, check out:

Clean Install of the Mac OS

Now that the operating system is working correctly, use Time Machine to recover the rest of your files.

With your Mac up and running, launch the Migration Assistant located at /Applications/Utilities/

Warning: Migration Assistant will close all running apps and log out the current user.

Migration Assistant will display an overview of what the app will do. Click the Continue button.

In the Migration Assistant window, select the option to transfer information “From a Mac, Time Machine backup, or startup disk” and then click the Continue button.

Migration Assistant will display all the available devices that can be used as the source for the transfer. Select your Time Machine backup disk from the list, and then click the Continue button.

Tip: You don’t have to wait for the Migration Assistant to find other sources; just select the Time Machine disk once it appears in the list.

Migration Assistant will display a list of available backups stored on the selected Time Machine disc. Select the backup you wish to use. While there may be several backups in the list, it’s also normal to see only one: the most current Time Machine backup for this Mac.

Select the backup to use, and click the Continue button.

Migration Assistant will display the types of data that can be transferred from the Time Machine backup to your Mac’s startup drive. You can select from the various categories by placing a checkmark in the appropriate boxes.

You can further refine the categories by either selecting the disclosure triangle next to an item, or in some cases, clicking the Edit button next to a category. You can then choose from various subcategories to include or exclude from the restore.

Tip: If you originally performed a clean install to fix an issue with the operating system, you may not want to include the Computer & Network Settings category as this may restore settings that were causing the original problems.

Warning: Using the Migration Assistant as outlined here to restore your user files and settings doesn’t erase the startup drive, but it will overwrite existing files with ones from the Time Machine backup.

Make your selections and click the Continue button.

Depending on the version of the Mac OS installed, you may be asked to create a new password for the user account that is being restored. If so, follow the onscreen instructions. When ready, click Continue.

If the user accounts you’re restoring already exist on the Mac, you will be given choices for how to resolve any conflicts, including replacing or keeping both versions of a user account. Follow the onscreen instructions to start the restore process.

The restore process can take a while, so be patient. Once it completes, you can restart your Mac, log in to your user account, and see all the files that were restored.

Restore a Single File from Time Machine

Time Machine allows you to restore specific files from a backup, including previous versions of the same file. This is a boon to anyone who needs to check an older version of a document that may contain different phrasing or content than the current version.

The best way to restore a single file is to open a Finder window and browse to the location where the document is or was kept on your Mac. For example, if you wanted to recover an earlier version of a spreadsheet that tracked your mortgage payments, browse to the folder where you stored the spreadsheet file.

If you’re not sure where a document is stored, you can instead open the document using the app that was used to create or edit it. For example, if you want to recover an email message you deleted, open the email app and select the mailbox where the message was stored.

Once the Finder window is displaying the folder where the file was kept, or the app is displaying the document or its location, you can enter the Time Machine interface by selecting Enter Time Machine from the Time Machine menu in the Apple menu bar. Youtube app free download for laptop.

If you don’t see the Time Machine menu, launch System Preferences and select the Time Machine preference pane. Make sure there’s a checkmark in the “Show Time Machine in menu bar” box.

Locate the file you wish to restore from the Time Machine interface. You can use the timeline on the right-hand side of the display to jump to specific points in time, or use the arrow buttons in the interface to move forward or back through the backups.

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Tip:Quick Look is available within the Time Machine interface, allowing you to select a file and view its content by pressing the space bar. This is an easy way to confirm you’ve selected the correct document.

Select the file you wish to recover, and then click the Restore button. The document will be restored to the same location. If a file with the same name is already present in the same location you’ll be given the option to Keep Original, Keep Both, or Replace. Make your selection to complete the document restoration and to leave Time Machine.

Restore Data From Time Machine To New Mac

If you select Keep Both, the original version will have its name appended with (original).

Using Time Machine To Restore

Optionally, you can right-click or control-click the file in Time Machine and select from a number of optional processes, including copying the item so you can paste it to a new location.

What Else Can Time Machine Do?

We covered the basics for restoring documents from a Time Machine backup, and we hope that it will cover most of the cases you run into when you have to recover a file or restore your Mac.

If you’ve been using Time Machine in alternate ways, be sure and let others know what you’ve been doing by leaving a comment below.

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