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Q: Time machine not working in yosemite

Just done a fresh install of Yosemite 10.10.01 Booted up the machine and

Time machine not working in yosemite. Its displaying nothing , i can see the dates from a few weeks back but nothing. iI tried restore using time machine and this worked ok why ? i need some selected apps and my pics back i thought i had Iworm thats why i formatted.

Posted on Nov 20, 2014 2:19 AM

by Linc Davis,Solvedanswer
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While in Time Machine, press the key combination shift-command-C. The front window will show all mounted volumes. All snapshots should now be accessible. Select the one you want and navigate to the files you want to restore.

Posted on Nov 20, 2014 10:15 AM

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  • by Linc Davis,Solvedanswer

    Linc Davis Linc Davis Nov 20, 2014 10:15 AM in response to MasterMarK2005
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    Nov 20, 2014 10:15 AM in response to MasterMarK2005

    While in Time Machine, press the key combination shift-command-C. The front window will show all mounted volumes. All snapshots should now be accessible. Select the one you want and navigate to the files you want to restore.

  • by TheGraphic,

    TheGraphic TheGraphic Nov 20, 2014 1:46 PM in response to Linc Davis
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    Nov 20, 2014 1:46 PM in response to Linc Davis

    Great! i did press several times shift-command-c then i went back on my folder (i needed to see some files on desktop folder) all files were magically turned visible again so all the other files in the other folders. Thank you so much.

  • by John Gruver,

    John Gruver John Gruver Nov 20, 2014 2:25 PM in response to Linc Davis
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    Nov 20, 2014 2:25 PM in response to Linc Davis

    Appeared to work, but attempting to select Music from the Favorites resulted in loss of some historical windows, and they did not return with either repeated shift-command-c or attempting to select the hard drive in the Devices.

     

    Too bad... I was really hoping!

  • by MasterMarK2005,

    MasterMarK2005 MasterMarK2005 Nov 21, 2014 10:23 AM in response to Linc Davis
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    Nov 21, 2014 10:23 AM in response to Linc Davis

    Thanks all Do you have to have your main HDD high lighted then  before you can go back ?. I was trying to go back with the applications screen open

  • by Doctorpee,

    Doctorpee Doctorpee Dec 28, 2015 12:40 PM in response to Linc Davis
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    Dec 28, 2015 12:40 PM in response to Linc Davis

    Tried shift, command C and nothing. All it did was pop up a window with colors.

  • by Doctorpee,

    Doctorpee Doctorpee Dec 28, 2015 1:11 PM in response to TheGraphic
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    Dec 28, 2015 1:11 PM in response to TheGraphic

    While the "shift command C" keystroke combination didn't seem to do anything, it finally brought the Time Machine backup system to life! It has not worked since I installed Yosemite.

    Now I can't remember where the "Recovered messages" are kept in Mail....

  • by Doctorpee,

    Doctorpee Doctorpee Dec 28, 2015 2:18 PM in response to Doctorpee
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    Dec 28, 2015 2:18 PM in response to Doctorpee

    I couldn't get Mail to display the recovered messages. After 10 minutes of futility, I quit Mail, rebooted it and then expanded the "On my Mac" tab and lo and behold, there they were.

    In general, Mail has been VERY buggy since upgrading to Yosemite.

  • by Doctorpee,

    Doctorpee Doctorpee Dec 29, 2015 4:51 AM in response to Doctorpee
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    Dec 29, 2015 4:51 AM in response to Doctorpee

    Actually I just checked and I am running El Capitain. The Time Capsule backups have not worked and I suspect the problem is the Mail application in newer OS X iterations. When I enter Time Machine, I often get a "non-responding" error message for Mail. Time Machine will set up with all the windows but simply not work. When I tried the "shift command c" keystroke combination it seemed to get it working. Weird!

    At least I can now use Time Machine.

     

    On a different note; if I buy a new Time Capsule is there a way to transfer the backups from the old Time capsule to the new one??