Time Machine restore of iCal - how do I do this?

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Time Machine restore of iCal - how do I do this?

How do I use Time Machine to restore iCal to a previous backup?

This is the first time I have tried to restore but I've spent hours trying to figure this out and I can't believe how difficult and un-intuitive this is. I thought I could pick a date and click Restore on Time Machine and it would overlay any differences to all files back to the snapshot as at that backup. Certainly does not seem to be as simple as that.

Apple Care does not work on weekends so any assistance today would be enormously appreciated. Kind regards.

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.2)

Posted on Jan 14, 2012 11:10 PM

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Ferd II

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Jan 15, 2012 7:35 AM in response to uworlds

uworlds,

Open the Macintosh HD/Users/yourusername/Library and note the location of the Calendars Folder. To get to the Library Folder, use Finder>Go>Depress the "Option" key>Library. Keep that window open in the foreground.

Quit iCal, and find the appropriate time line in Time Machine. Then replace the "Calendars" Folder.

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uworlds Author

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Jan 17, 2012 2:43 PM in response to Ferd II

Thank you very much!

Best wishes

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Ferd II

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Jan 17, 2012 3:22 PM in response to uworlds

You are welcome...glad to help.

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Mar 13, 2012 6:40 PM in response to Ferd II

Thanks so much for these very helpful instructions. I spent hours tonight looking through all the discussion groups for how to solve this problem and this is the only response that actually worked. I completely agree with uworlds that this is a difficult and unintuitive process. Thanks for the advice, Ferd II!

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