JMichaelTX
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Q: How Do I Restore a Folder &SubFolders Using Time Machine (TM)?
I need to restore a folder, and all of its files and subfolders, with the latest version of everything as of a specific date.
I am running Yosemite (10.10.5), and plan to upgrade to El Capitan shortly.
In the restored folder, it needs to includes everything as I would have seen it on that date. Some files/subfolders may not have changed for a long time (years). Others may have changed more recently.
An example of this is the Evernote database folder. In order to recover certain notes that have been deleted or changed, I need to restore my Evernote folder completely as it was on a certain date. It must include ALL files/folders that I had on that date.
How can I do this?
I have done much research, many searches, read many documents (including Apple's) on how to use TM, and I can't find any information that says how to do this.
If TM can't do this, is there another backup system that can, that you would recommend?
Thanks for your help.
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5), MBP-15R-E2013
JMichaelTX
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theratter wrote:
I would suggest that you visit Pondini's Time Machine FAQ for help with Time Machine. See http://pondini.org/TM/15.html and http://pondini.org/TM/16.html in particular.
While the links you provided did not directly provide the answer to my question, another page on the same web site did give the answer. So I thank you for pointing me in the right direction.
REF: How Time Machine Works its Magic on pondini.org
- I have NOT tested this, but it appears that when you select a folder to be restored, TM does in fact restore everything in that folder as it was on the date selected.
- From the Ref:
- Hard Links act a bit like aliases, but much more efficiently, and are the key to how Time Machine can back up only what’s changed, but have each backup be, in effect, a full backup of everything that was on your system at the time..
- But here’s the trick: it also puts hard links in the second backup folder to the items that didn’t change. So the folder now contains links to everything that was on your system at the time of the second backup.
