Q: Yosemite nightmare
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Apr 11, 2015 12:30 AMby Grane Duke,As spudnuty says, OS X recovery is only possible with Lion or a newer OS X. Mountain Lion is by far the most reliable and stable OS X available at the moment in the Apple online store. If I were in your shoes then definitely I would have upgraded to Mountain Lion for a better functionality and stability.
As, you have restored to SnowLeopard 10.6.8 using your time machine, you do not have to worry. Installing Snow Leopard is a prerequisite for installing Mountain Lion. You need at least 10.6.6 to gain access to the App Store (Which is possible in your case). Just buy the copy of Mountain Lion from the link provide by me. Then you will get a content code which can be used in the App Store to download the copy of Mountain Lion.
Hope this helps...
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Apr 11, 2015 12:53 AMby leanmusclemass,So...
If I’d returned to a later date in Time Machine, to when the computer updated to Mountain Lion, I could recover the system, but because I returned to an earlier date, I now can’t go to the time when the update was installed? Am I understanding this right? Is it like on StarTrek when they beam down and then can’t beam up again and they’re stuck in 1920s Chicago or whatever? I can never return to my initial position now?
I thought the whole idea of Time Machine was that it was a permanent store of the system: I thought I could return to any date.
Mountain Lion is there somewhere on my Time Machine external drive, but I can’t get it, because my computer is now incapable of using it, whereas it was before? Not sure I’m understanding this.
Would rather avoid paying Apple another $20 for a new copy when there’s one sitting on my external hard drive already.
Increasingly baffled...
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Apr 11, 2015 1:10 AMby Grane Duke,Whats the capacity of your external storage drive....?? Whats the size of the backup data on that drive....??
Always remember that when the time machine drive gets full, it doesn’t stop copying like the conventional drive, but its deletes the older backups and that space is taken up by the new data. In short Time machine backup is like Solar energy. It never stops copying but replaces the older data with the new one. I have an impression that your Mountain Lion OS X was your older backup. So, eventually some mountain lion data was deleted by the Time Machine drive to replace it with the newly backup.... I can’t guarantee though.. Just an impression...!!
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Apr 11, 2015 1:34 AMby leanmusclemass,Hi Grane.
I’ve got .5TB (500 GB) external drive. It show backups going back to March 2010, when I first started using Time Machine. It shows 80%+ capacity. But I now can’t access any of it.
Just to clarify:
I was using Yosemite. I then restored, using Time Machine, to a date which happened to take me to this version of the OS (10.6.8). I could, presumably, have picked a later date and returned to Mountain Lion (10.8), which would allow me to restore using Time Machine. But because I landed on an earlier date, the whole system is now no use to me and I have a computer which is permanently stuck in July 2012? I’ve permanently disabled my computer by using Time Machine in the way you’re supposed to? I find this almost incredible.
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Apr 11, 2015 2:03 AMby Grane Duke,leanmusclemass wrote:
Hi Grane.
I’ve got .5TB (500 GB) external drive. It show backups going back to March 2010, when I first started using Time Machine. It shows 80%+ capacity. But I now can’t access any of it.
Do you mean you have a 5TB external hard drive with 500 GB data on it...??
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Apr 11, 2015 4:25 AMby Grane Duke,Yes, no manufacturer sells its 500 GB hard drive stating .5 TB. Thats not the correct way of denoting a 500 GB drive. Actually, I skipped the point mark before the number 5, so I mistook it as 5 TB drive.
Leanmusclemass, always remember that if you do a time machine backup regularly then you need atleast thrice the space of your backup data on your time machine drive. Because, as I had mentioned earlier the old data will be replaced with the new one if the time machine detects that the drive is about to be full.
I would like to know from where did you get the previous Mountain Lion copy...??
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Apr 11, 2015 7:25 AMby leanmusclemass,HI Grane.
"Thats not the correct way of denoting a 500 GB drive.” Sorry. Like I said to Pete, I don’t really speak this language.
My external hard drive shows spare capacity of 80%: I have used up 20% of it so far. It isn’t full, near full, or anything like near full. I don’t think that’s the problem.
"I would like to know from where did you get the previous Mountain Lion copy...??"
Well I got it from the computer, Grane. It said “Upgrade now” and I clicked it. What would you prefer me to have done? I don’t understand the question.
I’ve just had a long conversation with Apple support: they said that since I had already ‘bought’ OSX whatever it is (free download counts as a purchase), I was at liberty to redownload it, and thus from there do CMD R restart and get into Time Machine so I could get back to Mountain Lion. But I’m finding OSX whatever it is is working great now, so I hopefully won’t have to trouble you fine gentlemen any further.
Cheers!
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Apr 11, 2015 7:58 AMby Grane Duke,Thats a great news that you downloaded it from App store. Will you please go and check your purchase tab in the App store....?? I am pretty sure you would get the copy of Mountain Lion listed in the purchased list. If you have it there then its a great news. Just click on it and download it. Simple... If you don't find it there then continue using your current OS as you said its working great. Give it a try though. Do let me know...
And it was my pleasure to help you.
