Time Machine restore
He has a MacBook Pro running 10.6.2 and his Time Machine backups are on a 1 Terrabyte Western Digital MyBook external hard drive.
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.2)
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.2)
Swamp_Fox wrote:
To cure a recurring problem with Photoshop (which couldn't be resolved by and uninstall/reinstall of that app) and to clear accumulated clutter, I assisted a friend in doing a clean install of Snow Leopard. I suppose that I should have anticipated this and not proceeded from the start but our mistaken assumption was that it would be possible to restore his Mail, Contacts and data files from a Time Machine backup. This was either an incorrect assumption on our part or we bungled the restore process.
Can anyone tell me whether it is somehow possible to restore his data from one of these old Time Machine backups?
If it is possible, could the precise steps be outlined for us?
Swamp_Fox wrote:
This is what we tried:
Swamp_Fox wrote:
My friend needs to: A. restore his emails, B. his Address Book contacts and C. his photos and document files. We attempted to follow the instructions from this topic:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2346331&tstart=15
I don't know what we did incorrectly.
Time Machine restore