OS X :: Finding Best Way To Restore?
Sep 6, 2009
I am a former Acer user. On my old Acer notebook when I had to restore, it contained a partition. So all I had to do was drag and drop my important files to that little spot in the corner of the HD and everything ELSE would be erased, and my files would be safe when it was done.
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Sep 13, 2009
How do I go about sorting it? I'm sure it's something fairly innocuous.
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Jan 1, 2011
I am upgrading the size of my hard drive on my 2006 Macbook Pro, so I can run/upgrade the OS.
After I put the new hard drive in, which do i restore/install first? First restore my complete backup of my computer which includes the old OS 10.4.11 -or- first install the newer OS (10.6) and then throw on the entire old backup restore?
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Aug 29, 2009
My macbook is a few months old and fell. It happened so fast, I'm not even sure what happened. I picked it up, lost my balance, and... After I stopped screaming, I realized that it still turns on and seems to work fine.. For that I am grateful. However, because of how it has dented, the upper left corner grinds upon closing and opening. It is dented in three places, evidently, 'hopped' when I dropped it. If the lid is closed, its dented on the upper left hand corner which luckily didn't break the screen but did affect how the lid opens and closes. It dented slightly on the other side as well but not enough to grate on that side when it closes. Any way to bend these dents out so that it won't 'grate' when closing and opening?
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Jun 19, 2009
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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Sep 8, 2014
I have an external hard drive which shows all time machine backups but I cannot restore to an earlier time, restore button blanked out.
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iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
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Apr 8, 2012
So here's my question:I've owned my share of MacBook Pro's, so I'm somewhat familiar, but not an expert. I got my mini last Friday from cowboom (a Best Buy affiliate), and since it's a pre-owned, it only came with the power cable and HDMI to DV-I adapeter. For those that ordered these, a majority of the people posted that it did not come with an OS, but the Internet Restore option fixed the trick. So I powered it on and got the flashing folder with the question mark. No OS. I did the Internet recovery and ran it through all the way to the the reinstall Lion screen. When asking what drive to install it on, there were no drives. I closed the installer and ran the disk utility and the only available drive was some basic drive that had a capacity less than 2GB. No other drives. I booted from my Lion that's on USB, but there's no drive to install it on. Any suggestions? I checked the warranty and the warranty cannot be verified. Some buyers said they had warranty from 8 months and up. One said his warranty showed starting from the day he restored his mac. I'm guessing because it was never registered I made an appointment tomorrow to take it to apple but is there something that can help avoid the trip?
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Mac mini
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Dec 15, 2009
the operating system could not work fan is running and desktop show but get not any function i want restor my operating system.
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Jan 8, 2011
i would like to know if there is a way i can restore my desktop mac to its original settings just like you do the iphone?
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Jan 31, 2009
I can boot up to my backed external HD. I'm having a few issues with Iphoto. It hangs every time i open it. Yes I have check disk permissions, and repair disk. and still the problem. seeing that i backed up only a few days ago.
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Dec 1, 2010
In an attempt to mount an external hard drive onto my iMac, I attempted to put in the original install disk (10.4.7) and re-installed my OS. I was upgraded to Leopard but now I accidentally re-installed Tiger. When re-installing it told me that Leopard would be saved under "Previous System" or something like that. I've looked for this folder or a way to restore my system but nothing has worked. I was not using Time Machine. All of my applications (such as Final Cut) are still there, but "cannot be opened on this OS".
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Oct 18, 2008
I am selling my mini to a friend and want to restore it like the way it came from apple, i.e. first time you turn it on you do all the settings (language, Internet connection, registration etc)
how do i do this?
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Jan 22, 2009
I'm unfamiliar with how to perform a system restore on a Mac. On my PC I can just go through the System Tools > Sys. Restore and have my PC almost back to how it was when I bought it.
How can I do this on my Mac?
I don't have the discs it came with, nor can I get new ones.
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Mar 3, 2009
I have been using Time Machine for backups. Now I'd like to use Time Machine to have the same desktop as my last backup on another Macbook.
How do I do it?
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Jul 26, 2009
i am selling my imac tomorrow and i want to restore it to the way it was when it came out of the box. i want it to have the leopard video and everything the first time the new owner cuts it on. the only problem is, that im not that tech savoy and i have no clue how to restore.
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Dec 18, 2009
I backed up my system on an external drive. I need to restore from that because I can no longer partition my HDD for Boot camp. How do I do this?
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Jan 10, 2010
When I looked at the Install disks, one reads "For Mac Computers" and is labeled OS X Install Disk 1. The other one, however, reads "MacBook" and is labeled OS X Install Disk 2.
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Apr 16, 2010
I was just curious does restoring from TM with system slowdowns? Or is restoring from TM just bring all those slowdowns back onto your drive?
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May 6, 2010
I removed the PPC architecture through monolingual;
is there any way restore it?
my Intel Mac based snowleopard becomes unstable.
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Jun 24, 2010
i want to restore my imac so it "like new." because its running slow. last month when i restored my mac mini it got 99% but never finished. had to take it to the apple store so they can restore it. i dont want to do that with my imac because it's big.
MY QUESTION IS, is there a way to tell if your snow leopard disk work and theres no problems with it be4 i go throughout the restore process.
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Mar 4, 2012
Restoring not only the LastSession.plist, but also all its peers, from Time Machine does not seem to fix the issue. This being Apple, there must be an easy and systematic way to restore Safari to its exact pre-quit (or pre-crash) state?
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May 21, 2012
I'm selling my Macbook Pro and I want to know how to completely wipe out the hard drive. I bought the Lion on the app store so I don't have the internet to re-install it.
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MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.7)
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Jun 5, 2012
My start-up disk crashed on my Mac Pro. They installed a new start up disk and now I want to restore my old one using a recent Backup file from an external hard drive but it won't work. It won't load the Backup file so I can select "Restore Selection."
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Oct 31, 2009
Had to get a new hard drive.Only place I have photos is on my iphone(not the roll)but on iphoto. How do I back them or restore to my new drive?
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Oct 9, 2009
My friend told me the above happened to her. She has all old pictures, but nothing from this month. This occurred after she got a message asking if she wanted to update the library -- this message came from out of the blue and she answered yes. I am trying to restore the library from a backup, but every time it tries to restore it says there is no permission to access the iphoto library. When I click on get info I see that she has read and write permission, but still she gets the message. Can I change the permissions on a time machine file? She is using Iphoto 9 and Snow Leopard.
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Aug 27, 2010
I have the Intel X-25 M G2 160GB and if for some reason I have to restore my comp with this SSD in it. How do I ensure that everything is erased and my SSD is not "dirty". Like brought back to a 100% state. Do I do Zero Out data?
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Oct 19, 2010
I have a mac ibook G4. Okay all the icons on my desktop have vanished, including my hard drive icon. I cannot access finder. I cannot open CD's when I put them in the computer.
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Oct 31, 2010
I am in the process of selling my old MBP and would like to wipe it clean before it exchanges hands. I dont have the restore discs though, is there a way to restore it to its factory settings/features if i dont have the disc?
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Nov 5, 2010
First replace the Optical drive (superdrive is superdead) in my 2007 macbook with a SSD, probably a 128-240GBish, the current internal drive is a 5400rpm 500GB. I want to install the OS and a couple of the main programs I use on the SSD. The main question is what will the the time capsule do when trying to restore to the (smaller GB )SSD if the backup image (currently around 400 GB) is from the 500GB. Is there a better way to go about this? The HDD has about 100GB available. If there is a forum on this let me know.
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Nov 17, 2010
I have a MacPro 4.1. All my apps are on an SSD off the 2nd Optical drive. I have started using "Chronosync" to back up the data on the main hard drives to a drobo.
I have searched the Chronosync site and sent an email on my problem, but no luck with a reply. I was thinking that regardless of which back up software used, the problem would be the same
I want to reconfigure the data drives and they need to be wiped (they are currently RAID 0 and I don't want this any more).
The question is; when I want to restore the data files that I backed up off the drobo, back onto my MacPro:
1) Do I just drag the files back from the drobo across?
2) If yes, then will apps like... iMovie / iWeb / iTunes etc - which have "links" to different media: will those links be broken? (Remember, SSD with apps won't be touched, just the data they are accessing).
3) If links will be broken... any way to fix this problem? (easily! )
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