Dennis Madsen

Q: How to restore from Time Machine Backup?

I've used CleanMyMac to remove Aperture from MBP today. I think, that this almost destroyed my Mac. It seems that some fonts are missing, since some of the alert messages seems very strange. Further the dock is not appearing and generally it works very slow.

 

I need to restore my Mac from the lastest backup. Unfortunately, I do not have a Snow Leopard disc and cannot use the "Restore System from Backup" utility: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/15638.html

 

Will I need to get a Snow Leopard disc or are there other ways to do this?

MacBook Pro 13", Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Jul 20, 2011 7:35 AM

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  • by Pondini,

    Pondini Pondini Jul 20, 2011 10:20 AM in response to Dennis Madsen
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    Jul 20, 2011 10:20 AM in response to Dennis Madsen

    Dennis Madsen wrote:

    . . .

    Will I need to get a Snow Leopard disc

    Yup.

  • by dalstott,

    dalstott dalstott Mar 16, 2012 1:17 PM in response to Dennis Madsen
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    Mar 16, 2012 1:17 PM in response to Dennis Madsen

    While you are at it get an external USB hard drive and learn to make a bootable clone with Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper. You can not only back up but also have a bootable trouble shooting drive.

     

    Google either or both applications for detailed info.

  • by noondaywitch,

    noondaywitch noondaywitch Mar 16, 2012 3:45 PM in response to dalstott
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    Mar 16, 2012 3:45 PM in response to dalstott

      Your'e a year late, dalstott - they've all gone home… 

  • by dalstott,

    dalstott dalstott Mar 16, 2012 7:35 PM in response to noondaywitch
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    Mar 16, 2012 7:35 PM in response to noondaywitch

    Good call.  

     

    Very strange event here. I was replying to an alleged current post on Bootcamp or MacBook pro sections of these forums.

     

    Might something from  "The Twilight Zone" and it isn't even close to Halloween yet.

     

    More likely an iCloud "brain fart" event which we will have to become familiar with.

  • by mathgenius,

    mathgenius mathgenius May 31, 2013 5:32 PM in response to Pondini
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    May 31, 2013 5:32 PM in response to Pondini

    Actually, did you download an application? If you did, you could go to the activity monitor application, open it up, click on the application, and hit stop process. This instantly shuts down the selected application, and you can delete it easily

  • by Pondini,

    Pondini Pondini May 31, 2013 5:37 PM in response to mathgenius
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    May 31, 2013 5:37 PM in response to mathgenius

    Not sure why you replied to me, instead of the original poster, not to mention two and a half months later.

     

    But many of the so-called cleaner apps put all sorts of other files in various places;  just deleting them often doesn't undo the damage.

     

    Restoring from a prior backup will put everything back the way it was.