Hi Gigi, I'm not sure I understand your suggestion. I did use finder to look in all conceivable places on my mac, but I cannot find the file. I even indexed all my external hard drives with spotlight and did a search again, but no luck. So, the only hope remaining, is the time capsule. I don't know the date when the file got lost. You discover that when you need the file and then notice it's gone, but having no idea why it went, because I tend to archive my stuff very carefully. Are you saying there is a way to have finder go through all backups on the time capsule in one big go? That would be the solution for me. If you know how to make that happen, please describe how one can go about this. Again, I don't know when the file got lost, so going to a specific date with time machine is not a good option in my case. If anyone else can chime in, please do.
Kind regards, Paul. On May 3, 2013, at 4:16 PM, Eugenia Firth <gigifi...@me.com> wrote: > Hi Paul > You may have already tried this, but have you gone into Finder to see if you > can find the file? The way I understand things, you don't have to know the > date it was put on there if it was on your computer say at the last update or > maybe you could check a specific date you know for sure it was on there. Just > a thought. > > Regards, > Gigi > > On May 3, 2013, at 7:02 AM, Paul Erkens <paul.erk...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi John Panarese, >> >> Thanks for your reply. I have that in my answers archive now. The problem >> I'm trying to solve though, is this. What if I have no idea about the date >> or time when a file was deleted. I just know that it has existed somewhere >> in time on my machine, and so it should now be present somewhere in my time >> capsule. Question is: how do I get to it? If the backups that time machine >> makes were not stored inside big backup archive files, but instead would >> have been stored as plain files and folders, then, what I would have done to >> find a file from the past, would be a simple filefind on the entire disk. >> But with time machine, this seems impossible. Do you happen to know a way to >> have time machine search all backups, i.e. all that it has, for my computer, >> and then find the file I lost? >> >> Kind regards, >> Paul. >> On May 2, 2013, at 7:24 PM, John Panarese <jpanar...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi Paul, >>> After you open up Time Machine and hear that sonogram >>> sound, you need to use the Window Chooser menu to go to the Time Machine >>> Controls. In there, there is a scroll area that you must interact with and >>> go back in time. When you are at the spot you want to view, you then have >>> to use the Window Chooser menu to select the view of that date. I have not >>> used this in conjunction with a search, but I am assuming it will work the >>> same way. >>> >>> Take Care >>> >>> John D. Panarese >>> Director >>> Mac for the Blind >>> Tel, (631) 724-4479 >>> Email, j...@macfortheblind.com >>> Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com >>> >>> APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX Mountain Lion and LION >>> >>> AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE >>> >>> MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On May 2, 2013, at 6:40 AM, Paul Erkens <paul.erk...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi list, >>>> >>>> Given that I don't exactly know when my important file was deleted, I'm >>>> looking to find out how I can restore it from my time capsule. I googled >>>> it and I tried the following. >>>> >>>> 1. I remember that the file once was on my desktop, so I went there to >>>> begin with. Problem is though, that it could have been in many places, >>>> because it was a work in progress. So I went to the desktop for a start. >>>> 2. I then went into the extra menus, vo and then twice the letter m as in >>>> Mike. I went to time machine, and clicked on open time machine. >>>> 3. In this window, I'm stuck. I type in the search criteria, which in my >>>> case was just the filename Rutter 11.txt, hit enter, and hoped for the >>>> file to turn up, but it does not. I typed my search into the finder >>>> toolbar in this time machine window. >>>> >>>> I think time machine wants an exact date when the file was still present, >>>> but I just don't know when it got deleted, or why. So, I'd like time >>>> machine to search its entire backup set for my mac mini, and then come up >>>> with the latest version of that file. 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