Well, Mary, I can assure you that you made much too much work for yourself. Here's all you really need to do.
First, don't even think of using Time Machine to try this. It's got to be done directly. By which, of course, I mean that you manually navigate to the disk using the regular finder procedures which which you are already familuar. Once you've opened the disk where your Time Machine backups are stored, (use command O for this), you will noticed that there is a backups.upd folder. Inside this folder, you will see an image of your Mac hard drive and it will be called what ever your main hard drive is called. Open this. Inside, you will see all your backups and the dates for each will be in numbered form. Each backup will be an exact image of your Mac drive exactly as it was at the time of the backup indicated. Open the backup you want to take folders or files from. Now, when you navigate inside here, you will be already familuar with it because the layout will appear exactly like your Mac drive. Just find what you want and take it via the usual cut and paste method. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! A Very Proud and Happy Mac User!!! E-Mail: rforetjr at comcast dot net Skype Name: barefootedray On Oct 9, 2010, at 10:33 AM, Mary Otten wrote: Ray, When you say you went into your time machine disk, did you do that via time machine itself? Or did you access the disk directly without going through TM? I ask because, while I did manage to recover a specific folder a while back, it took sighted help to do so, as going via time machine, that is, accessing the "enter time machine" item from the tm menu didn't seem to work well for me with vo. I couldn't access a specific back up or specific files. As memory serves, when my sighted spouse did the restoration, he first navigated on the Mac hard drive to the folder to be restored, then opened tm and went from there. I am fuzzy as to the steps. So if you can give a bit more step by step on how you did the restore, it would be helpful. Mary Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@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.
