OS X V10.7 Lion :: Way To Do A Full Restore Without Disk
Jun 23, 2012i need to do a full restore but i dont' have the disk for the os...is there a way to do a full restore without the disk.
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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OS X :: Full Time Machine Restore Without Disk?
Dec 30, 2010I lost my OS disk for my macbook pro. I am fully backed up on time machine. How can I do an entire restore without the disk?
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Apr 6, 2009I was just wondering if a full system restore can be harmful or if it's good to do every once in a while to get that "fresh" computer feeling. I just re-installed OSX and everything feels like new but was just wondering if this is bad for the hard drive or something.
View 4 Replies View RelatedOS X V10.7 Lion :: Time Machine Restore Selective Intonation Vs Full Installation Compromised System
Mar 15, 2012I have reviewed notes regarding selective app restore method and am aware that there are issues assossiated with failed apps since the original app installer installs files in various libraries and system settings..My backed up Mac contains rogue programs such as the programming app python 3 and various rogue bugs and system settings
1 Does a full restore reset all backed up system settings or does it keep the fresh installation and include all your apps and settings such as mail accounts mail folders documents pictures movies podcasts etc without the bugs
2 Should the answer to 1 be a yes all compromised settings will be restored, then will I have issues with installing VMware fusion as its an encripted integrated app that I keep all my master business applications but store documents in the Mac documents area
Other factors
1 My accounting tax business has been hacked over and over again for the last 7 months from start of tax season
2 I have lost 50% of my clients due to the interruptions and been hospitalized twice from sitting on the computer for extended hours and days reinstalling fresh system and restoring Mac documents only, 3 times over, as well as trying to learn everything about best practice, hacks etc
3 I'm using fire vault 2 however the time machine backup is not encripted are there any potential problems with either of the two methods?
4 I will be using a proxy server when I next build the Mac will this be enough to mitigate potential security breach using the full time machine restore method?
5 I have many apps that I have not purchased through the app center and have not kept the keys and will be a headache to get all my details
6 what implications are there as far as the prior keychain access is consurned? How does that get restored?
What is the most effective and efficient method to restore from time machine given above scenario?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Start-up Disk Full?
May 16, 2012Okay, so my iMac has been slowing down recently and I have gotten the pop-up saying the start up disk is full. When I got this, I went through and deleted a lot of things and moved things onto my external hard-drive. I can't remember how much space it got me, but it only lasted a few days. The same pop-up came up and I was confused because I hadn't really downloaded anything or done anything to use that space. Okay, so I delete more stuff. This second time I deleted enough (my whole downloads folder I forgot about) to get 15GB of space back. That was just a few days ago. Today, I got the same pop-up and had only 1GB of space left. I haven't downloaded ANYTHING especially 14GB worth at least for me to run out of space again.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Startup Disk Is Full?
May 27, 2012My startup disk is full. When I look in information 'About this Mac', I see that this disk is almost completely filled with 'Other' (173,43 GB!°. And I cannot find out what 'Other' might be! clean this 'Other' and make memoryspace available ?
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Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.7.1)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Startup Disk Is Full
Jun 16, 2012I keep getting error messages saying my startup disk is full, so I delete a bunch of things, look in about this Mac, it says I have multiple GB available and then over time they disappear and I get the error message again. earlier today I had 8 GB, they all disappeared, so I deleted a big iphoto album and got a new 13 GB, now 45 minutes later it is down to 10GB....
Info:MacBook Air (11-INCH, MID 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Downloaded And Now Startup Disk Is Full?
May 1, 2012I just purchased a Macbook and immediately upgraded to Lion. As a result, my laptop now says that the startup disk is full...it's 95% full of "other." I don't have anything else on this computer yet beside Microsoft Office. How do I get my memory and storage back?
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MacBook Pro :: Running OS X Lion On Startup Disk Is Full?
Feb 21, 2012I am running OS X Lion on my startup disk is full. I checked my storage in the about this mac window. 49.72GB of my HD space is taken up by Other. Also in Disk Utility under the partition almost the entire rectangle is light blue. I am worried that my MacBook is to old to run the software. I use my machine to run Adobe CS4. The error turns up when I run Photoshop so I am unable to run the program at all.Â
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MacBook Pro (15-inch 2.4/2.2 GHz), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Startup Disk Is Full - Keep Deleting Things
Apr 9, 2012I have been using iphoto with my nikon d5100. I just changed from shooting in basic jpeg form to trying to shoot in raw.and then my computer started acting up. and no matter how much stuff I get rid of it keeops saying that it is full...
View 6 Replies View RelatedMacBook Pro :: Why Hard Disk Always Showing Full (OSX Lion)
Apr 30, 2012I'm using a MacBook Pro 13" running OSX Lion, why my hard disk always showing full? I never store any movie and music file on this mac even is my working file like AI, PSD file i store it in a external hard-drive. Hard disk always not enough space?
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MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.7)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Keep Getting The Error Message 'startup Disk Is Full'
May 13, 2012I keep getting the startupdisk is full message. My comp is only 5 months old, I dont know why it has happened, nor do I know what to do with it?
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MacBook Pro
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Startup Disk Is Full - What Is Taking Up So Much Room
May 21, 2012I continue to get this message, what is taking up so much room?
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: How To Decrypt Full Drive - Want To Use Encrypted Disk
May 23, 2012I want to decrypt a full drive because I want to use a encrypted disk on Macintosh operating system like Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard. If lion does not support decryption method then give me full specification about hfs+ journaled encrypted.
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Mac OS X (10.7)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Can't Restore Partitioning Using Disk Utility
Apr 8, 2012I'm trying to restore the partitioning of my late 2011 Air drive, after messing it up while trying to dual boot OS X and Linux. The goal is to get rid of the superfluous partitions and resize the OS X one so I can use the whole drive again. Data loss is not an issue. According to Disk Utility the partitioning looks like this:Â
EFI
Macintosh HD
Recovery HD
06
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: How To Partition Mac Hard Drive If Startup Disk Is Full
May 16, 2012how do i partition my mac hard drive if my startup disk is full and i have more space
View 1 Replies View RelatedOS X V10.7 Lion :: Startup Disk Full (182GB Of Other) - How To Free Up Space
Jun 23, 2012My startup disc is full. I have 182 GB of 'Other' that I cannot locate or delete to free up space.
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Cannot Restore DMG Image Stored On NTFS Disk?
Apr 10, 2012My MacBook Pro has OSX Lion on it. I have created a DMG image of my starting volume using Disk Utility. The image was saved on an NTFS formatted external USB disk. I used Paragon NTFS for Mac to activate writing on NTFS partitions. The image was created, tested and it mounted fine. It's size is 105GB.Â
I have restarted the system and am accessing Disk Utility from the recovery partition that OSX Lion creates. Disk Utility can see the NTFS disk and I can choose the DMG image as source and the partition on the internal hard disk as a target without problems but when I press the restore button and the Image scan process is going to start I just get an error that says "Unabke to scan Mac-OSX HD. Resource busy". When I try the SCAN BEFORE RESTORE command on Disk Utility on the image I am getting "Unable to scan MAC IMAGE.DMG (Not such file or directory)".Â
I have already erased my startup disk and really need to get this image back in place. It is the only backup I have of my data.Â
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Disk Utility Restore Put Recovery Hd Over Mac Hd After First Properly Copying Mac Hd?
Apr 4, 2012I am trying to make a redundant backup image of my harddrive using something OTHER than Time Machine. I booted to recovery because you image from a disk you are booted from. The restore took 2 hours, and indicated the entire time in disk utility that it was restoring "Mac HD" to a similarly sized partition on my external hard drive. When it was done, the external had a copy of my recovery drive on it. That's crazy talk.
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Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2), iMac 24" used at work
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Using Super Duper To Erase And Restore Hard Disk?
Apr 18, 2012My older MBP is running very slow, and I have tried all the usual ways of making it run quicker - repair permissions, repair disk from Lion recovery partition, remove extraneous files, checking Activity Monitor, etc. etc. Someone suggested reformatting the HD and then restoring from a backup. I have the HD cloned to an external HD with Super Duper, but if I reformat the internal HD and restore from the clone, won't the problems that caused the issue in the first place just be cloned into SD and then restored to the reformatted internal drive, thus defeating the excercise?
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Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
MacBook Pro :: Start Up Disk Is Nearly Full And Scratch Disks Are Full?
Mar 23, 2012I have taken everything off my desk top and backed it up and it's still saying the same thing! I've also emptied the trash. I get it when I try to use Photoshop.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Macbook Cannot Boot: Hard-disk Repair / Restore Error
Apr 8, 2012My 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)?
MacBook Pro :: Disk FULL Error When Export Movie In IMovie Or Burn Disk In IDVD
Nov 25, 2010Every time I try to export a movie in iMovie or burn a disk in iDVD an error message pops up and says that my startup disk is full. So I bought an external hard drive and backed up my mac using Time Machine. Now I want to delete everything off my mac's internal Hard Drive and use my external hard drive so I can empty my disk. Does this make sense? If so will you please tell me how to do so.
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Jun 7, 2012I am getting this warning. Not sure what to do or how to do it. Couldn't find any information on freeing space without erasing important files.
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Mac Mini, Mac OS X (10.5.6)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: "Start Up Disk Almost Full" Message When It's Not?
Jun 23, 2012then I get "Your start up disk is almost full" message, stating I have a few hundred MB's left, I know this isn't true so after a restart I get my many GB's back, anyone know why I keep getting the message? I've not come across this before & don't know how to stop it.
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iTunes, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
MacBook Air :: How Do I Do A Full Restore Without Disc
Jul 2, 2009Basically make it like new without the leopard disc?
I do not have a time machine backup either.
OS X :: Full Restore With Time Capsule Stuck On Calculating...?
Dec 21, 2008So I had to wipe and reinstall Mac OSX.5 (or at least the Apple store genius did). I backed it up just before I took it, and now I am trying to restore completely from the login selection (restore from a time machine backup).
It recognizes my time capsule, and my time machine drive, and it goes to the window where it asks you to choose what to transfer: "User name, network and preferences, applications folder, and finally my files and folders" At first it said "calculating..." for all of them, but all of them except the applications folder finished. It has been over 3 hours and the applications folder is STILL "Calculating" and will NOT let me select transfer.
Hardware :: Full System Restore From Time Machine?
Jul 28, 2010Got a new (used) 15" MBP and I'm trying to do a full system restore via Tima Capsule over the network. Started it last night at 11PM Estimated time was 15 hours.. Just got home from work the next day 5PM and it now says 5 Hours. But it jumps up a few minutes then down.
I did find a ethernet cable so my question is, can I cancel the restore? And restart it via ethernet cable? It doesny list an option to cancel but can I just turn off by the power button or turn off time capsule?
OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: Time Machine Full After Restore
Apr 12, 2012I recently suffered the 'pleasure' of a HD failure in my 2008 24".An apple engineer replaced the drive and reinstated my data from time machine - all good so far. However, my mac doesnt want to relink with my existing backups and continue the save/delete old entries like before.I can still access my old backups, but It seems to want to create a new time machine on the very little space i have left on the drive for new backups.Is there a way of relinking to the previous backup or is it a case of wipe/restart, which i'd like to avoid.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: New HDD, Tried To Restore From TM Backup Now New Disc Full?
Jul 5, 2012My mac HD failed, I had a new one installed. I tried to restore from external TM backup, but it didn't seem to work. I tried two times - the second time, it failed and indicated that I didn't have space on my new drive. My original drive was 320g, new drive is 500g. I had about 80g of data on the new drive. Finder now shows that the new drive has only 25g available (old backup was about 280g). My attempt to restore to my last backup (3/27/2012) didn't seem to work, my old files are not on my new machine.  Â
I'm thinking my best bet is just to undo whatever has been done to my new drive. I don't have a problem formatting the new drive, as there is nothing really on it that must be saved at this point. I am not well versed in Macs (obviously), but I have enough tech sense to follow steps if somebody could offer them. How can I undo this? Should I just format the new HD and do a Snow Leopard install from scratch, and then try again to restore from my time machine backup?Â
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iMac (20-inch Early 2008), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
