For those of us who like Terminal, it's very easy to get a file you want
from your Time Machine backup.
Start out by doing an ls command to the backup database on your external
drive. Remember that you can use tab completion so you don't have to type
out everything in the path. If you do ls with | more on the end, you can
see your list of backups in order; most will have dates but there will be
a Latest. So I deleted a text file from my home directory, and then did:
cp /Volumes/EXTERNAL DISK/Backups.backupdb/mercyeverlasting/laatest/Mac
HD/Users/chomiak/myfile.txt .
with the dot (a period) meaning I wanted the file copied to the directory
where I was
in Terminal. There was no need for even entering a password and this
worked instantaneously. The only thing that was a little unexpected was
that I had to put the slash on Latest because it wasn't completed but then
as soon as I did the M and hit tab, Mac HD was completed. It wounds
complicated, but if you know your paths and use tab completion it's really
very, very fast.
ls
--
Cheryl
"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
