On 03/01/2013, at 10:08 AM, LuKreme <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ashley Aitken opined on Sunday 30-Dec-2013@07:26:18
>> Fortunately, I had a Time Machine backup so I thought I would just restore
>> the Calendar folder in ~/Library. Firstly, I had trouble restoring the
>> folder itself (but that seemed to be due to some ACL issues). When I fixed
>> that and had restored the folder Calendar would not open - I am not sure why
>> exactly but after searching the Web I found that restores like this
>> generally don't work for iCloud data.
>
> This was not the way to restore the data. You should have (and probably still
> can) launched Time Machine while in Calendar and then restored the missing
> calendar. At least this is how it used to work (same as in Mail.app).
Unfortunately, I don't think it works that way any more (which was the point of
my post, although I hope I am wrong). When I try to jump into TM from Calendar
it just goes to a Finder window - give it a try in Calendar, Notes, or
Reminders.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4155104?start=0&tstart=0
Perhaps one can just use TM for the right Finder folder? But now there is the
problem that when you restore from TM, iCloud will quickly bring things back
into sync by deleting it again. Here's a Web page that describes how to solve
that for Calendars:
http://www.wilmut.webspace.virginmedia.com/notes/icloudtm.html
It seems to me that iCloud is now the primary data source and client copies are
only "caches." As a result, it also seems to me that there is not a good /
simple / easy backup and restore mechanism for some (most?) iCloud data. This
is a worry ...
I am happy to hear any better solutions.
Cheers,
Ashley.
PS I wonder if Apple is working on a cloud-based Time Machine (for iCloud data
only)...
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