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Important files inaccessible after clean install of OS despite backup on external HDD
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<blockquote data-quote="Errol246" data-source="post: 1341556" data-attributes="member: 228839"><p>Thank you both for your replies.</p><p></p><p>I will be as specific as possible, but the steps I undertook were not very complicated:</p><p></p><ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">I plugged in the external hard drive.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">I then made TimeMachine do a full security copy of my internal hard drive. The copying itself took about 5 hours; The computer was filled up to the brim. I let the computer stay on over night in order to be able to continue reformatting in the morning.</li> </ol><p></p><p>Things now make a lot more sense to me. Of course something went wrong in the backup process itself. I will try to recover the lost files with an "undeleting" programme and see if they can be retrieved.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Errol246, post: 1341556, member: 228839"] Thank you both for your replies. I will be as specific as possible, but the steps I undertook were not very complicated: [LIST=1] [*]I plugged in the external hard drive. [*]I then made TimeMachine do a full security copy of my internal hard drive. The copying itself took about 5 hours; The computer was filled up to the brim. I let the computer stay on over night in order to be able to continue reformatting in the morning. [/LIST] Things now make a lot more sense to me. Of course something went wrong in the backup process itself. I will try to recover the lost files with an "undeleting" programme and see if they can be retrieved. [/QUOTE]
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