Can Time Machine only recover a certain file? How to recover all files and settings

Connect the portable hard drive to.

Mac, the system sometimes asks us if we want to use the drive mate.

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Make a backup. For the first contact time

Friends of machine, in order to prevent misoperation, it is recommended not to check Encrypt the backup disk, and directly click to decide later, and wait until we are familiar with the time in the future

Turn on time

Then make sure that this is the time first.

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The switch is already on, click on Select Backup Disk.

Note: Never performed a backup for Mac, here is one"Three small people holding hands with blue disk letters", the button is Select Disk .

Because this Mac has performed a backup before, it shows a time with it

The disk letter of the machine symbol. Apple's prompts are clear at a glance, clear and easy to understand, even if you see the blue drive letter, you don't need to worry, according to which you can click Select Disk than a gourd. As shown in Fig.

In the pop-up dialog box, you can see that there are two disk partitions in the current list, select the partition we want to use as a storage backup, and click Use Disk.

Note: The partition used to store the backup is the partition where the system is backed up; Its total capacity must be greater than the current capacity of the disk space occupied by the system.

The way to query the disk capacity occupied by the system is very simple, come to Finder, find the username on the left sidebar, click in, find the Mac internal hard drive letter, select it, click the space bar to quickly see the disk size. As shown in Fig.

If you are not choosing a backup disk for the first time, please skip this step.

This is the first time to use partitions.

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If it's in time

Machine preferences tick Show time in the menu bar

machine, we can see the time in the menu bar in the upper right corner of the screen

machine flag, you can perform an immediate backup by clicking on time

When the backup is complete, the system sends a reminder that the backup is complete.

You can also see the backup time in TimeMachine Preferences.

At this point

The job of backing up your Mac is done.

If one day we want to restore our Mac to a time before, find Time at the menu bar at the top right corner of the screen

machine (If not, go to time.)

machine preferences can be checked below), click to go to time

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Time Machine Recovery Interface, on the right side, arrange all the data backed up on the partition in chronological order, select the time point you want to recover, and click Recover.

machine backs up the system, or you can back it up on a portable hard drive.

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The backup (i.e., the backed-up Mac) is restored to the new hard drive. After the system is restored, everything is familiar.

Take the top data recovery software as an example.

The first step is to connect your computer with an SD card.

Connect, refresh the My Computer page and show the SD card.

Step 3: Select the hard drive that you have formatted by mistake, then select the disk you want to recover from it, and click to proceed to the next step.

Fourth, the software will scan the files before the partition is formatted, and wait patiently for the scanning to complete.

Step 5, select the files you want to recover from the interface of the recovery result below, because it is the data loss caused by formatting, so you can also recover all of them.

1. Use the tool: time machine.

Part 2: Steps to backup files with Time Machine:

1. Click the Apple icon and select System Preferences.

2. Select Time Machine

3. In the interface that opens, select Turn on or off the Time Machine backup function.

4. Click Select Disk and select the storage path of the Time Machine backup file.

5. Click the Options button to queue up some folders or disks that don't need to be backed up.

Part 3: Steps to recover files using Time Machine:

1. Click the T ime machine icon on the menu bar, and then select Enter Time

machine, you can see all versions of the backup file and restore the files you need.

4. Precautions:

1. The data backed up by Time Machine is not stored on Windows NTFS or FAT32 partitions.

2. Time Machine supports internal disks, external disks connected to Mac, and (partial) network drives, and currently Xiaomi router also supports Time

machine, but it is relatively slow to use, and it is recommended that you use a directly connected disk for backup operations.

If you use Time Machine to back up your computer, you can easily recover one or more lost items, or restore an earlier version of a changed file.

1.Open the window of the items you want to recover.

For example, if you inadvertently delete a file from the Documents folder, open the Documents folder. If you want to recover your email, open your inbox in Mail.

If you lose an item on your desktop, you don't need to open the window.

Open the Time Machine menu in the menu bar, then choose Enter Time Machine. When your computer is connected to a backup disk, a message may appear briefly.

2.Use the arrows or the timeline on the right side of the screen to browse through all the snapshots and backups that Time Machine has created.

The gray tick marks on the timeline indicate snapshots stored on the internal drive (laptops only). Pink tick marks indicate backups stored on backup disks.

Windows in Time Machine work the same way as Finder windows—you can open folders, click items in the sidebar, and use the search bar in the upper-right corner of the window.

5.When you find the item you want to recover, select it, then click Recover. You can recover a single item, multiple items, folders, or an entire hard drive.

Restoring the item returns to its original location. For example, if you find the item in the Documents folder, it returns to the Documents folder. Time Machine may ask you if you want to recreate one or more folders so that the recovered items can return to their original locations.

If the restored item has the same name as another item on your computer, you'll be asked if you want to keep the current item, restore the item, or keep all of it.

Executing Time Machine directly in the application will bring you to the program interface. There will be a finder window here, first find the location of the data, and then click the forward arrow next to it, it will go back to each backup point in the past, after finding the file, click it, and then click "Restore" in the lower right corner of the screen, and the file will be captured back to the current point in time.

Press and hold Command-R while pressing Power to power on, and in the "OS" that appears

The X Utilities window has a selection.

1. First of all, if you want to restore the system from Time Machine, you need to meet two conditions:

1. Before the system crashes, make a backup of the Mac OS system with Time Machine;

Second, the current Mac system can enter the recovery disk mode;

As long as the above two conditions can be met, this method can be adopted.

2. When you just start up your Mac, press the Option key and choose to boot from Recovery disk. Of course, you can also press the Command+R key all the time when booting up, and you can really enter the recovery disk mode.

3. Then please select the "Restore from Time Machine Backup" option, 4. At this time, you can insert the Time Machine device that you backed up on other storage devices before, and here I take the backup I backed up to the portable hard disk as an example, and click the "Continue" button.

5. Next, the computer will automatically find our backup file, click the "Continue" button, 6. Then you can see the date of the backup file, select one and then click the "Continue" button, 7. Wait for the system to be restored, the machine will automatically restart, and the Mac can be used normally.

First of all, connect the external hard disk with your backup, put it into the system disk, that is, Mac OS X install ***, then restart, boot and hold C to start with a disc, if not, press and hold the option to load the boot startup items, select the disc, and wait until the disc enters the installation interface, click on the tool above, then select Recover from Backup, then select the disk, and then select the backup you want to restore, you can restore.