My MacBook is slow and buggy, I already have Lion installed. All I want is to keep all my Data (Songs, videos, pics, etc) but want everything else with Factory settings, is there an easy way to go about this?
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MacBook (13-inch Aluminum Late 2008), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I just trashed several thousand files by mistake. I have backup on TM. How can I Restore my computer to what it it had on the last good backup?I have 10.7.3 OS, but this was an app. I don't have a disk since Snow Leopard. Is there a way to go to a date & say restore all?
Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I have to do a rollback of Lion back to Snow Leopard as I think that my hardware is too old and the system is not working without any troubles. Furthermore how do I use the Timemachine with Snow Leopard again after it was already converted to Lion structure? I need the backup to restore all my data.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I had a problem with my Macbook pro for some unknown reason my HDD crashed and stopped working, so I had to replace it, with a new one. Fortunately I have a 1TB My Passport Time Machine Backup that contains all my data. I had spent hours to reintsall Snow leopard, update the machine and then upgrade to Lion. The only thing now I need to do is to restore all my data. can I restore my Apps, Music, Video, my sketch up drawings and projects? or am I forced to repurchase my Apps and media?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4), Magic Mouse, Airport express
How do i restore my hidden ical data from a Time Machine backup?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
How long should I be stuck on the screen "calculating space required to restore data"? I've been on this screen for about 20, 30 minutes. The "hash mark wheel" is spinning, but just not seeing anything new. Is this normal? My backed up data is ~100 GB.
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MacBook, iOS 5.1
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time capsule, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Info:MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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MacBook Pro (17-inch Mid 2009), Mac OS X (10.7.2)
I am trying to restore my MacBook Pro to its Factory Settings.All data was erased and tried to reinstall the Lion. When my apple ID and password were entered.The following message came out: "This Apple ID has not yet been used in iTune Store" I was not allowed to reinstall the Lion. Yes I did not buy anything in the iTune Store.how can I reinstall the Lion.Â
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
I am trying to restore my Macbook Air using the Apple Lion Thumb Drive. I inserted the thumb drive, restarted, and held down Command-R. I got the recovery mode, and it is asking me to choose a Wi-Fi Network to continue... I don't have wi-fi here. Is there a way to do this using the thumb drive and no internet?
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
Early 2011 15" MBP with Lion (purchased new July 22, 2012). I had a two year old MBP running Snow Leopard then upgraded to Lion. The computer got flooded. I took out the hard drive and put it in a portable hard drive case and used it to restore my new MBP running Lion. It seemed to go very smooth and very easy. I am not a very knowledgable computer person, I use the computer for Photoshop, iTunes and email and just barely know not to turn it off with the on/off button! I keep noticing that I have two of many things in the computer, like library, multiple systems and multiple hard drives. I also get conflicting amounts of free hard drive space. I feel that I mistakenly copied too much stuff. I have backed up my files onto a fire wire hard drive. I want to "push a button" and have the computer go back to the way it was the day I bought it. This time, I will take the time and move the files and programs manually (there are not that many). I am affraid a typical restore from Time Machine will only bring back the problems I am trying to get away from.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I recently bought a used macbook10.6.8 from a pawn shop without the install dvd, it is missing ichat, address book, and mail. We have an iMac with the restore dvd. My question is when I upgrade to Zion will the missing apps be replaced? Is there away to remotely install the missing apps from my iMac.
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
i was concered bout the pics in iphoto actually.
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MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I recently brought my macbook into store to reinstall the operating system, I'm currently on Snow Leopard and want to upgrade to Lion. Should I install Lion now, before I transfer all my old data back onto the computer using Time Machine or after, or does it matter?Â
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mac 13' aluminium, Mac OS X (10.6.4)
I want to reinstall Mac OS X Lion with saving my programms, docs and photos. What should I do then? I know that Time Machine backups data with the system. But Ineed to backup my files and then on clear system I want to restore this backup. Please reply with the steps which should I do. And where should I download original Mac OS X Lion image?Â
PS I bought MacBook Pro with pre-installed Lion. Â
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4), 2 partitions
My MacBook is unable to boot. Whenever I try to boot, the spinning circle and the progress bar appears on the grey screen, but when the progress bar reaches about 40%, the computer shuts itself down. I started in Verbose Mode and tried AppleJack, and it said my harddisk needs to be repaired; but AppleJack is unable to do that. (Error Messages: "Invalid node structure" and "Incorrect number of thread records) I then tried to startup with both Recovery HD and Mac OS X Install DVD and ran the Disk Utility on both of the startups. At the First Aid tab, I selected my Hard Drive (not the Hitachi one, the Macintosh HD one) and clicked on Repair Disk. The error messages I got from Repair Disk were:Invalid volume file countInvalid node structureThe volume Macintosh HD could not be verified completely.
Error: Disk Utility can't repair this disk..disk, and restore your backed-up files. And, lastly, the following popup message appeared:Disk Utility stopped repairing "Macintosh HD"Disk Utility can't repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files. Not being sure how to back-up my files using Disk Utility, I plugged in an external HDD to my USB port and clicked on the Restore tab in the Disk Utility. As the Source, I selected Macintosh HD and as the Destination, I selected one of the partitions I created on my external HDD. However, when I clicked on Restore, I got the following error message:Restore FailureCould not restore - Input/output error I partitioned my external HDD by creating 2 partitions formatted in Mac OS Extended Journal - GPT. Now, what can I do to save my files (and my MacBook's HardDisk)?
My MB Air is not booting (I get the ever gray Apple logo screen with the spinning wheel, and nothing happens) Following instructions I found online, I tried the disk utility repair disk and permissions and, apparently, there's nothing wrong. Still, the system won't boot!Â
I'm now trying to reinstall Mac OS X Lion, but the system requires about 0.5 GB of additional free disk space to install!Â
Is there anyway I can access the OS terminal screen (command line interface), so I may delete a few files, creating additional disk space?Â
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.3), OS reinstall
Recently My MAcBook Pro 13" was stolen. I have importan archives inside Time Machine (from the MacBook pro 13) and now I want to recover just some iles from the stolen MacBook to my IMac using Time machine.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
