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 <[email protected]> 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, [email protected] > 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 <[email protected]> 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. So how do I do that? >> >> Regards, >> Paul. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
