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is there any way my time machine backups can get deleted accidentally?

I installed a new hard drive and am now trying to restore my old settings and documents from Time Machine, is there any way I selected the wrong disk and am deleting my time machine back ups?

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Posted on Jun 11, 2013 9:19 AM

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Posted on Jun 11, 2013 9:55 AM

Not unless the data on the HD got deleted or you had another HD pluged in at the same time (both are highly unlikely)


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Jun 11, 2013 10:45 AM in response to katherinee38

katherinee38 wrote:


I installed a new hard drive and am now trying to restore my old settings and documents from Time Machine, is there any way I selected the wrong disk and am deleting my time machine back ups?


How are you doing this -- starting from your Recovery HD and using Restore From Time Machine Backups, or did you erase your HD, reinstall OSX, and are using Setup/Migration Assistant?


Are you saying your backups aren't recognized?


If so, and your backups don't appear, you might have been bitten by a bug we've just found. See #D10 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting for a way to tell.


Let us know the results. If you do have the bug, we'll work out a recovery plan.


If you don't have the bug, we need to know just what you've been trying, and what's going wrong -- what do you see, or not see?


is there any way my time machine backups can get deleted accidentally?

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