Time Machine options are greyed out
I keep regular time machine back ups and I accidentally deleted a bunch of files I need, so I opened the Time Machine to try to ”go back in time“ BUT ALL THE OPTIONS ARE GRAYED OUT!
So I come to the forum and look through all these messages and everybody saying “Duh, you need to hold command plus R and restore from time machine that way“ OK, if that’s the case, why doesn’t it tell me that when I launch Time Machine? What’s the point of even being able to launch Time Machine while logged in?!?!?
So anyway, I do all that and go through the process of selecting the date I want to restore from, only for my Mac to tell me “You must use migration assistant to transfer data from this backup“. OH REALLY NOW? OK now I’m getting annoyed…
FIRST OF ALL: I’m not trying to “transfer data from this back up“ I’m trying to GO BACK IN TIME. In other words, I want to undo the last day of changes that I made. Which is what I THOUGHT Time Machine did (at least that’s what they advertise it to do.)
I’m not interested in dragging and dropping individual files, I want to restore it to a previous state in the past. Am I in the wrong place? How in the world do I do this?
