I'd like to test my laptop's Time Machine backup by doing a full restore to an empty external FireWire drive. Has anyone tried the full system restore utility on the boot CD? Does it let you pick the ...

Time Machine is great technology for backing up one computer, but problems arise when multiple systems are involved. When users use a disk for backing up one computer, the files are only restorable to ...

Following on from our earlier article on how to set up and manage your Apple Time Machine backups, capable of making sure that if you are MacBook or desktop Apple computer is lost, stolen or fails you ...

Knowing how to restore Mac files from a Time Machine backup is very important, offering a solution when a file is missing or a document has been changed in an unexpected way. Recovering files with ...

In my very humble opinion, a big oversight of Apple’s is that you can’t restore backups of Notes from iCloud.com. You can do so with a bunch of other types of data (which I’ve discussed before), but ...

The hard drive in my folks Mac Mini has passed away, I was like ok no problem this is why we have time machine running. So I do a clean install on a new hard drive and restore from the time machine ...

Backing up your computer is like flossing teeth or mowing the lawn – something you know you should do but usually don’t. Apple has gone to great lengths to make Time Machine, the backup program ...

Have you ever ruined an essay by over-editing it? Did you ever mistakenly delete a huge chunk of a report, and not realize it until days later? Maybe you thought you’d saved another copy of that ...

Open Finder and visit the folder you’re looking for. In your Mac’s menubar locate the Time Machine icon and tap Enter Time Machine. Give it a few seconds and with the scroll mechanism on the side, ...

There are many ways to backup your Mac computer and restore all of its data: cloud-based software, third-party apps, external hard drives. Time Machine is a software that's built into your Mac, and ...

One of the key reasons to have a continuously running backup, whether to local storage or a cloud-backed provider, is to restore files you accidentally delete. Macworld reader Helena is trying to ...

If you have a backup that’s old enough, you can use Time Machine to restore photos that you’ve deleted in the Photos app. The Mac’s Photos app can take up a lot of storage space—actually, it’s not the ...