bajaricky
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Mac OS X

Q: HELP - NEW OSX DELETED ALL - NEED TO RESTORE SOME HOW

I RECENTLY UPGRADED   TO OSX EL CAPTAIN - AND  IT HAD AN ISSUE OF COURSE and i lost all my apps and files... THEN ..

i did have a time machine back up so after apple fixed the osx   when i tried to  start time machine time machine THEN DELETED MY OLD FILES ON BACKUP THAT I NEEDED   ***  DO I DO..

 

how do i recover? i have data rescue 4  but have no idea how to  get back all my firefox favs and also my apps that i dont have cd any more cause i have no cd on retina  - logic and word and so on      IS THERE ANYWAY TO RESTORE APPS FROM A DATA RESCUE 4  ???   I HAVE NO IDEA  CAN ANYBODY HELP......

 

 

ALSO I HAVE BEEN ABLE TO FIND  OR RESCUE BACKUP FILES BUT  WHEN I TRY AND PUT  ON A PASSPORT DRIVE FOR TIME MACHINE ITS SAYS  SOMETHING ABOUT I DONT HAVE PERMISSION!!? I HAVE TRIED TO GOINTO EACH FILE AND UNLOCK AND ADD ACCESS BUT NO GO ..

 

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MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Apr 28, 2016 9:36 AM

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Q: HELP - NEW OSX DELETED ALL - NEED TO RESTORE SOME HOW

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  • by Boyd Porter,

    Boyd Porter Boyd Porter Apr 28, 2016 11:35 AM in response to bajaricky
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    Apr 28, 2016 11:35 AM in response to bajaricky

    I know you say your backups are gone, but follow this Apple procedure to restore your system. If you let Time Machine run every hour as it is designed to do there will be multiple backups that you can choose from.

     

    OS X El Capitan: Recover your entire system

     

    After Apple helped you install OS X, did it take a very long time to make a backup? It is possible that the backup disk is not large enough and Time Machine could not make enough room for a new backup by erasing old backups. This is by design. Many folks here recommend a backup disk to be two or three times the size of the data being backed up; and that a user have multiple backups on separate disks by different backup programs, i. e. Time Machine, Carbon Copy Cloner, etc.

     

    Finally, here are the Apple supported Time Machine backup disks. Backup disks you can use with Time Machine - Apple Support

     

    Have a nice day.