Will Time Machine erase newer files?
Hello,
I'm running 10.8.2 on a 7 year old iMac with 4gb and a 1 tb drive.
On boot I just get a gray screen, Apple logo, and spinning wheel.
Ran utilities, verify, repair, reset nv and pram - all utitilities say the drive is fine.
Tried to boot into safe mode but after the gray progress bar disappeared nothing further happened.
Now I'm thinking about doing a restor from a Time Machine backup taken in August. I've never used TM before
and I'm wondering, because I'm at the screen where it says "Select a destination" and the "restore" button is
highlighted, are there no options to select what to restore?
Will doing a restore wipe my drive and restore it exactly as it was on the day the restore was created?
Is there a way that only those files, in my restore, will get wiped/overwritten and any new docs/movies/spreadsheets, etc...
that I created after the last backup, will still be there after I do the restore?
Thanks!!!
imac, Mac OS X (10.5.6)