I don't use TM for external drives, so I don't know if the fact that your external drive is now missing will impact TMs ability to look at the backups for that drive. Simply restrict the search to the filename only (by clicking the "File Name" button when the spotlight toolbar appears after your start your search). The extra files it is finding are probably indexes, preference, or database files that contain the name of the file within their data. Time machine then goes back in time until it finds the file. The steps for searching for a deleted file, is to open finder, search for the file, then open time machine (the search is retained in TM) and press the back arrow. Or is the problem that you don't know where your images are stored? You only need to go back in time if you deleted the file (or changed it) in the past and want to try to retrieve the original.
You just open Time Machine and navigate to the folder where your image is stored. You might (or might not) be over-complicating it. Simply type the Spotlight search field and use the back arrow to have Time Machine search through your backups to find what you are looking for. You can also perform a Spotlight search in the Time Machine Finder Window search field to find a file. If you don’t know exactly when you deleted or changed a file, you can use the back arrow to let Time Machine automatically travel through time to show you when that folder last changed. You can use the timeline on the right side of the window to reach a certain point back in time (the timeline shows the times of all backups on your backup disk). This is what Google found for 'searching time machine backups' from the Apple support note.
But the likelyhood is that you don't know when it was!!! It seems that if you navigate to the correct day and time where your file was you can find it. It seems that there is a lot wrong with searching for a file in TimeMachine, I'm amazed that Apple haven't realised this that you just can't easily look for a lost file, and fixed the problem. I must be missing something this can't be what Apple had in mind. The only way I can see to find my file is to try each of the backups, waiting for Spotlight to complete its search each time, until finding the file to recover. Clicking the backĪrrow sends time machine all the way to the oldest backup, forward arrow all the way to "Now." Shift-Arrow does a slow-mo through all the backup planes seems worthless. Then use the forward and back arrows to find your file." I can't make that work very well. Your search will transfer to Time Machine. Search in the finder, then launch Time Machine. She who owns the phone is gradually going through the five stages of grief for her lost data, but I'd really love to be able to get it back for her.How does one find the file to recover? Apple says, "Do a Spotlight
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So, given that the full backup has apparently somehow managed to not include all of the settings/data, is there any way of getting any of it back from the incremental backups? I know there are applications that can read the iPhone backups, but what I really want is to get the text messages (at least) back onto the phone, and I can't see how I can get there from here. The iMac it's syncing to also runs an hourly Timemachine backup, so some previous iPhone backups should still be available.
That phone isn't actually sync'd to iTunes all that often, but it probably is every couple of weeks or so, so at least *some* of the data should have been backed up. The iPhone appeared to successfully do a complete backup before the update, so I'm at a bit of a loss as to why all of the data suddenly disappeared.
I tried doing a restore and loading one of the previous backups, but there were only two to choose from – one which was missing all of the data and one which was from eight months ago. The email/calendar accounts were gone, some of the applications were missing and those that were still there had lost all of their data, and all of the text messages were gone (which is really the biggest problem).
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When the update finally finished, the phone had lost all of its settings. After having read a few posts that suggested that iOS 4.2 was no longer dog slow on the iPhone 3G, I took the plu(n)dge and updated mrs despair's phone to 4.2 a few days ago.
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