Hi Ronni The whole system was restored from Time Machine except for the ~/Music folder which is excluded in backup options.
The newly restored 2009 iMac with OSX 10.9.5 Mavericks is 23.99 GB. The full SuperDuper backup is 142.9 GB. The ~/Music folder is 118.7 GB. Therefore OS and data is 23.2 GB. How is this so? I have three Macs. The 27 inch late 2012 iMac (High Sierra) is my workhorse. This was bought to replace the 21.5 inch late 2009 iMac (Mavericks) which had an argument with lightning and lost its ethernet port. The “new" computer developed a problem during 2017 - it shuts itself down after being active for around 5 days and requires an SMC reset before restarting. Not very useful for EyeTV recording and AppleTV etc. I eventually took it to the Apple Genius Bar for repair. Not happy about that experience. Suffice to say they didn’t fix it. Hence - - I bought an SSD Mac mini as my media machine. Stays powered on 24/7 for EyeTV recording and processing, and for Apple TV. Most data (movies etc) are on an external high capacity hard drive. Hence - - The 2009 Mavericks machine became my kitchen computer which I use it for Safari, playing music and occasional Zoom video meetings. I only occasionally shut it down even 'tho it is a gas guzzler compared to the later model Macs. Yes, Ronni, I did Restore (almost) the whole system! I will restore the Music folder from the SuperDuper backup. I will check out the computer and prepare it for High Sierra. May take a few days. What is your advice for the next step? Try a new App Store download? Cheers Alan > On 28 Apr 2018, at 7:58 am, Ronda Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > <https://support.apple.com/kb/HT201250> 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] > <mailto:[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] >>> <mailto:[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] >>>> <mailto:[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 >>>> <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml>> >>>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml >>>> <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml>> >>>> Settings & Unsubscribe - >>>> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug >>>> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>> > > -- 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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