Hi Dan Yeah you should really just use the finder.
cmd shift C (within finder) to open the root folder of your computer and cmd 3 to make it columns view if it isn't already Find your backup drive Then within that there should be a folder called "backups.backuped" or something like that Within that you see your computer "Dan's macbook pro 15" for example and within that you find a bunch of folders with dates as names, each one a backup that was made on the day in its title. Within each of those folders you can find the files that you had on that date of backup. If you know relatively when the file was on your computer you can search within said dated folders. Otherwise it might be kind of hard. You should probably initiate a find cmd option f in your finder window which puts you in the search field, type the name of what you were looking for, and the results are below sort of like in apple mail. Note that you should check the button that indicates to search in your backup drive. it will automatically have your computer's harddrive checked for the direction of the search which we don't want since said file is not on your computer. Ya just go look at it it will make more since than it does here, and it is faster than mucking through apple's 3d graphics experiment. Justin Harford "Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia." Charles Schultz, creator of the Peanuts comic strip. El 06/03/2009, a las 16:54, Dan escribió: > > Hello Justin and others, > I do find the restore button with the item chooser, however, I cant > find the file I want to replace. Even though I know it exists in the > backups sub folders from previous backups. > Any other suggestions? > > Dan > > key...@comcast.net > > > > > On Mar 6, 2009, at 4:06 PM, Justin Harford wrote: > >> >> If memory serves you can use the items menu to find the restore >> button. I haven't used that in a long time though so I'm not exactly >> sure. I would recommend that you just access all the backups through >> the finder. >> >> J >> >> "Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already >> tomorrow in Australia." Charles Schultz, creator of the Peanuts comic >> strip. >> >> El 06/03/2009, a las 15:09, Dan escribió: >> >>> >>> Hello everyone, >>> I am wanting to know how to use the Time Machine's Restore >>> feature. I >>> know I can restore the whole system by picking a backup date and >>> time >>> from the Install DVD. >>> I also know that I can go to my Time Machine files and locate the >>> file >>> I want to restore manually by Copying and Pasting it where it goes. >>> What I don't remember is how to Go to the Time Machine Window and >>> pick >>> a file and use the Restore button. >>> I can open Time Machine by doing the following. >>> 1. Go to my documents folder, for example. >>> 2. Open time Machine from the Doc and see a listing of files. >>> 3. With VO F2 twice, I can find the different windows and I can even >>> find the file I want to restore. >>> However, I cannot find the Restore button. >>> Anybody have any suggestions? >>> Thanks in advance, >>> >>> >>> Dan >>> >>> key...@comcast.net >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> >> >> >>> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
