Hi Alan, I asked you to Restore the whole system! It will take much longer than 20mins.
>>> 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. Time Machine automatically backs up your entire Mac, including system files, applications, accounts, preferences, email messages, music, photos, movies, and documents. Restore From Time Machine Backup: Restore your Mac from an external hard drive or Time Capsule that contains a Time Machine backup of your Mac. How to restore your hard drive from a Time Machine backup Whether you're having major problems with your current hard drive or upgrading to a new Mac, Time Machine can help you get back to business. Power up your Mac and hold down the Command and R keys to enter the macOS Recovery Partition. Your Mac should boot to a screen that says macOS Utilities. Select Restore from Time Machine Backup and click Continue. Read the info on the Restore Your System page and click Continue. Select your Time Machine backup and click Continue. Select the most recent backup of your hard disk and click Continue. Your Mac will then restore the Time Machine backup; once it's done it will restart. Cheers, Ronni Ronni Brown’s iPad Pro 12.9-inch 256GB > On 28 Apr 2018, at 7:07 am, Alan Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > Correction and update! > > There is probably no missing data or folders. I forgot that ~/Music is > excluded from TM backups. Also I don’t use Mail on this iMac so the Contacts > app would have no cards. Sorry for this. I assume Recovery Mode looked at > the total history data of Time Machine to calculate the remaining restoration > time. > > I will proceed with normal testing of apps and data - and will wait for > Ronni’s advice before I attempt a new download of High Sierra. > > Alan > > > >> On 28 Apr 2018, at 6:23 am, Alan Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 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]> 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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