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I am wondering if can restore past version is applicable on documents like word, excel...... and photos.
I have changed the name of pictures on my desktop. I have backup on my time machine but i do not remember what was it cloud on the previous backup.
MacBook Pro 13", macOS 10.14
Open Finder and navigate to your Desktop folder.
Click the Time Machine icon and select Enter Time Machine.
This takes you into Time Machine showing your Desktop folder. You can navigate through past backups and see what files where on your desktop. Hopefully you can identify what the picture files were called at a previous time. You can then select that file and restore it with the previous filename intact.
You would do the same thing for files in other folders. You can navigate your folders in the Time Machine Finder view the same way you do normally in Finder.
Hope this helps.
Open Finder and navigate to your Desktop folder.
Click the Time Machine icon and select Enter Time Machine.
This takes you into Time Machine showing your Desktop folder. You can navigate through past backups and see what files where on your desktop. Hopefully you can identify what the picture files were called at a previous time. You can then select that file and restore it with the previous filename intact.
You would do the same thing for files in other folders. You can navigate your folders in the Time Machine Finder view the same way you do normally in Finder.
Hope this helps.
Thank you so much dunxd2 for your reply and sorry for late response.
It is really amazing that i can restore deleted files, but how can i restore these files and my time machine external hdd is unplugged from the laptop.
I am wondering if there are two backups one into my laptop and other stored in the external hard drive.
will i be able to restore deleted file or folders if i did not enable the time machine backup
It is of no value to have a backup on the drive you are backing up. The purpose of a backup is to be able to retrieve lost or damages files. Lost or damaged files are odten the result of a damaged drive do if your backup was on the same drive you would also lose your backups along with the original files.
Time Machine only backs up to and restores from the drive(s) you have set up for this. If you didn't set up time machine before the time you are trying to roll back to it is not going to be helpful.
If the files have been deleted perhaps they are in the trash.
If the files are still where they should be, and you want to roll them back to a previous state, perhaps the revert feature might help. Take a look at https://osxdaily.com/2015/06/16/revert-to-prior-version-file-mac-os-x/
View and restore past versions of documents on Mac
