ITunes For Mac :: Cannot Find Older Backups
Sep 4, 2014In iTunes 11, I can not find my older backups.
Only the most recent one.Â
I make backups on my computer, not via the Cloud.Â
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How To Find Past Itunes Backups
Feb 20, 2012how do i find my past itunes backups
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iMac
OS X :: Time Machine Backups Missing / Unable To Find Backups
Sep 30, 2008My Time Machine has been making the usual regular backups for a few months onto my Time Capsule. I just found that all the backups prior to about a week ago have vanished. It's not a disaster (I think) as I assume that the current backups reflect what's on my iMac (I haven't had to delete files from it yet).
Where did they go? Why did they go?
A possible connection: My TC is 500GB; my iMac 1TB. I recently put extra files for temporary use onto the iMac hard drive - Time Machine said (in effect) 'that's too much, try removing certain folders from the backup'. I excluded said folder and things seemed okay, but it would be at around the time I did that that my old backups have gone.
OS X :: Unable To Find Backups / Time Machine Backups Gone
Nov 4, 2009Just wondering if anyone has had a similar problem with the Time Machine. I bought a 500gb Time Capsule last July and it has been running perfectly until a few days agp. I noticed that all my backups were no where to be seen (when entering Time Machine on my MBP) and that it was doing a full backup.. The backup took the guts of 36 hours.
I've come home today to find that all backups are gone again and it is doing another full backup!!!Any ideas what is wrong here?
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Mac Pro
OS X :: Adding Older Time Macine Backups To A New HDD
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OS X Mavericks :: (10.9.4) How To Get Older Backups Off Time Machine
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Unable To Access Older Backups / Dates
Feb 28, 2012At first (all of a sudden out of the blue) I could not enter Time Machine mode for love or money despite clicking on the enter time machine action botton, however I could run a 'backup now' at any point and this appeared to go through as well as the hourly automated ones. Then switching Off then back On Time Machine suddenly allowed me to enter Time Machine; however I am only able to access the finder windows for any local 'white tick' backups which in my case were only for the last several snapshot backups for today... but if I try and access any dates after this right back until November 2011 last year, nothing happens at all and the date/backup markers are completely unaccessible. Incidently, all of these previous 'purple tick' date markers (time machine backups/snapshots on external firewire 800 drive) were accessible before, but know they can't be accessed even though they corecctly index the appropriate dates right back until November.
I'ts worth pointing out that I've had many glitces and random problems since using a Thunderbolt Display which is where the external hard-drive containing the time machine backup is hooked up to. A seperate recent issue is constantly losing sound on the Thunderbolt Display which requires a reboot to get it back temporarily, but this is a seperate issue but may be related if the cause of a number of problems may be originating from the TD.
The external disk drive containing the time machine backup image, appears to be online ok as I'm able to access the drive in a normal manner. Has some kind of special links nature or association relasionship between the Time Machine program and the external drive and backup disk image contained on it been disrupted or broken? If this is the case, can they be re-linked or re-associated?
Info:MacBook Pro 17, Mac OS X (10.7), MacBook Pro 8,3 - Intel Core i7 2.2
Software :: Time Machine Interface Not Showing Older Backups?
Oct 6, 2010Lately when I go to view backups using the Time Machine interface it lists all my backups going back to April 22, 2009, but anything older than late August 2010 is blacked out and can't be clicked.
When I look in my Time Capsule disk on the finder, all the older backups are there and I can view and copy all the files.
Also, in system preferences, Time Machine preferences lists my oldest backup as April 22, 2009 and there is plenty of disk space available on the Time Capsule.
Why is this happening and what can I do to fix it?
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MacBook Pro 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
OSX 10.6.4
OS X Yosemite :: 10.10.1 - Can't Browse Some Older Backups Via Time Machine Interface
Dec 2, 2014Problem started after updating to Yosemite. I am running 10.10.1. I can find all my backups, going back to 2010 in fact, when browsing my external FW800 hard drive directly in the Finder. But if I click the menubar icon and choose "Enter Time Machine," I can see some recent backups for some folders, but I cannot access some older backups that I know are there on that same drive. The window title bars in the TM interface are totally grayed out for those older backups. But again, there are all on the same FW800 external HD, and I can search them just fine and extract the files just fine using the Finder. Â
Is the Time Machine interface totally broken in Yosemite? Â
Clearly there is nothing wrong with my external FW800 HD, otherwise I wouldn't be able to manually browse and extract files via the Finder. And yes, it makes regular TM backups every day too. It's only the "Enter Time Machine" UI that is partly broken. I say "partly" because some backups (very recent) display, but I cannot access all the backups. It's very strange.Â
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iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10), March 2009 DuoCore, 8GB RAM, 1TB HD
OS X :: Time Machine Don't Delete Older Backups To Make Room For New Backup?
Dec 3, 2008i have a macbook with an internal drive of which about 230gb if full and used.
I have a 250gb external which i have been using to back up with time machine, done it several times over a few months.
Now there is like 70gb left on the external, and when i try to back up, it says failed, not enough space on external.
But i thought when there is not enough space, it simply deletes and backs over older time machine backups.
OS X :: Cannot Find Snow Leopard Update For Older Built Of SL
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3), iPad (3rd gen) WIFI, iPhone 4S
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Migrate Only IPhoto And ITunes Content From An Older Macbook Pro To A New One?
Apr 27, 2012I want to migrate only iPhoto and iTunes content from an older Macbook Pro to a new one, not ALL User files.Â
Migration assistant doesn't allow me to fine-tune the operation as much as I'd like.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8), new MacBook Pro has Lion OS
ITunes :: Older Media Files May Require It To Reopen In 32-bit Mode
Jun 18, 2012Older media files may require iTunes to reopen in 32-bit mode
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iPod nano (2nd generation), it's on a normal computer!
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Sep 17, 2010Having just migrated from windows I'm still trying to get my head around downloading music movies etc from my back up discs I made from itunes. I've reinstalled itunes on my new MBP and afterwards it puts a blue movie and music folder on the desktop. I'm not sure what to do with these as they must contain the actual music and movies. before I deleted these folders and found that when I tried to access the music a window couldn't locate it. So I did a 2nd back up.
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Jun 12, 2012I manage multiple iPads here at my school and had a question about iTunes backup. We want to have multiple backups from the past for each device so that we can restore the device from an old backup if something goes wrong. We have over 180 iPads so I need something quick and automated. We are also using a Mac Server if that helps any.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
ITunes :: How To Save Multiple Backups Of IPhone
Jun 18, 2012This weekend I purchased a new 13" MacBook Pro. In the process of transferring data from my old MacBook Pro to the new one I almost lost all of the data from my iPhone. In the process I realized that by default iTunes only keeps one instance of the backup data - the most recent one.To avoid such a near miss in the future and to add some healthy redundancy into my life, I would like to be able to keep at least one additional backup copy of my iPhone data. Elsewhere it has been suggested to periodically copy the backup folder to another location. This seems terribly inefficient. Is there a more Apple-like way to create and manage multiple backups of my iPhone and iPad data?Â
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iPhone 4, iOS 5, iPhone 4s
ITunes :: Saving Multiple Backups Of IPhone?
Jun 24, 2012It has always been my understanding that each time. You backup your iPhone using iTunes, it overwrites the previous backup you created, which makes sense since the backup files are quite large. However, today I went to restore my iPhone to an old backup, and the drop down list has almost a dozen different backups from various dates in the past. And it's not that they are each a different device I only have one iPhone. It's not a big deal because I know how to delete them, it's just that each backup file is quite large and these 12 or so backups ate taking up 113 gb of space.
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iPhone 4S, iOS 5.1.1
ITunes For Mac :: How To Delete Audio Backups - OS X Mavericks 10.9.4
Aug 23, 2014I'm using OSX 10.9.4.
My 500 GB hard drive is getting full, so I moved my entire ITunes music library (160 GB) to an external hard drive, and then moved the iTunes Media folder to the trash, and deleted it on my Mac. The moved files are playing fine from the external drive.Â
Surprise!
No disc space was freed up at all, because iTunes (I guess) cleverly backed everything up automatically.
I've tried to find these backup files in order to delete them -- to no avail.
How do I get rid of 160 GB of backups??Â
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MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
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Sep 12, 2009I want to delete all back ups of itunes in my time capsule since i'm doing the new organization method in itunes 9. How do i achieve this?
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Mar 31, 2012How can I find out what version of iTunes I have?
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ITunes :: It Can't Find Some Music
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iTunes, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
