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. 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
