My experience is that you don’t do the time machine backup until after you’ve done the reinstall. You want to go from Utitilies, select to do a time machine backup, then, from there, you are presented with a table of drives from whitch you can select the drive from which you wish to do a backup. Now, once you’ve selected that drive, you should see a table consisting of dates on which backups were done. IF I remember correctly, the most recent date is at the bottom of this table. Anyhow, once you’ve selected a date, you do the backup. This tends to take a while.
Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in! Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray, still a very happy Mac and Iphone 5 user! On Jan 25, 2014, at 7:18 PM, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > I'm about to format my hard drive, remove my Windows partition, and > re-install Mavericks. I have a Time Machine backup that' I've been keeping > since November, so there are different versions of everything. Once my system > is back up, how do I restore my documents? I'll be re-installing my apps, but > my music, movies, projects, and plenty of other files will need to be > restored. I've looked at the Time Machine interface, but there is no > accessible way I can find to select a backup's time, so how do I know I will > be restoring the latest versions of everything? Is there anything else I > should know about using Time machine for this purpose (restoring only some > files0? Once complete, should i wipe the backup and do a fresh one, assuming > my system is behaving better than it is now? Thanks for any help! > > > Have a great day, > Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) > [email protected] > > > > -- > 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. > 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
