Hi Ronni I did a restore from Time Machine via Recovery mode for data at 25 April, but got a strange outcome.
After about 20 minutes with around 15% restore and estimated 2 hours remaining, I got the “Restore Succeeded” window with a “Restart to Continue" banner. This proceeded normally to login and then to prompts similar to a new OS installation. The desktop display looked normal superficially. The Dock showed some apps that had been removed some time ago. The Finder sidebar showed the default options, not my preferences. I opened a few apps. Some seemed OK but Contacts only has 2 cards (Apple inc and Me) and iTunes gave a “no library found” message. The “Music” folder in the Home directory is empty - no iTunes folders! Finder shows 975GB available on the 1TB hard drive. I was expecting around 850GB free. iTunes would probably account for most of the missing data - say 65GB music plus some movies and videos. I have not attempted any data recovery or conducted detailed tests of apps. I will wait for your comments before I proceed. Cheers Alan > On 27 Apr 2018, at 8:13 pm, Ronni Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Alan, > >> On 27 Apr 2018, at 6:21 pm, Alan Smith <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >>> >>> It might be best to go back and install the backup you did in Mavericks >>> 10.9.5 before you commenced trying to upgrade to High Sierra. >> >> Do you mean reinstall the OS via the Recovery utility or a complete copy of >> OS and data from Time Machine (or Super Super)? >> > > > Restore the complete contents of your hard drive from the Time Machine backup > you did before you commenced trying to upgrade to High Sierra. > Or Restore from the SuperDuper you did before you commenced trying to upgrade > to High Sierra. > > The SuperDuper Manual will show you How To Restore from SD Backup. > If you need more details I did a PDF Tutorial for a client some time back … > "How to Restore from a SuperDuper! Backup.pdf” > If you need details how to "Restore the complete contents of your hard drive > from a Time Machine backup” I’ll post details to the list. > > I have been doing support work since 5:30am this morning, so I’m now signing > off for tonight. > > Cheers, > Ronni > > 13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014) > 1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz > 8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM > 512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage > > macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
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