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How do I restore a third party application (Family Tree Maker) from Time Machine backup to my new iMac?

iMac 21.5″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Dec 27, 2020 10:34 AM

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Cannot access Time Machine backups When I click on Time Machine on the top menu bar, it shows: “Latest Backup to “DS420plus.local: December 14, 2022” When I go to Time Machine > Browse Time Machine Backups, the only backup it shows is for 2022-12-14 and it shows only this: Macintosh HD > Volumes > com.apple.TimeMachine.localsnapshots > Backups.backupdb > Curt’s MacBook Pro > 2022-12-14-082841 > Macintosh HD - Data If I double-click “Macintosh HD - Data” to open it, there’s nothing inside it. What happened to my backups? I back up to my NAS. I went to my NAS > Time Machine > Curt’s MacBook Pro.sparsebundle. It shows “2022-12-14” as the Modified Date for these folders: band mapped The band folder is 570 GB in size. The mapped folder is 17 MB in size. When I open the “band” folder, it has 8523 items, starting with a file with name “0” and Modified Date of 2022-02-03. The last file has Modified Date of 2022-12-23. Before this, there are files with Modified Dates of 2022-12-14. So, it looks like “Curt’s MacBook Pro.sparsebundle” has my multiple backups. But how come I cannot access them with Time Machine on the Mac?
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Dec 27, 2020 1:45 PM in response to carol329

Applications often consist of various files (the application itself, preferences, Application Support files, etc.) so to recover the application you need to recover all of them.

Usually, you would run Migration Assistance to restore your applications from Time Machine to your new Mac, and it copies all applications and all support files.

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