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<blockquote data-quote="dannyboy22" data-source="post: 1951816" data-attributes="member: 312057">Thanks for the points to check, unfortunately I'm away from home all day Monday so will check on the various suggestions from recent posts on Tuesday.To answer your specific question I ran an external HD to save back ups from Time Machine until the iMac died on me. I've not tried to check if any files that I'm missing could be recovered on that, basically since I have no experience of restoring data. I also used iCloud for some items but not the ones I'm looking for. I've always assumed restoring files from the cloud or any other external back up would be a relatively simple task, but clearly that is not so (for me at least).For info I'm currently using my wife's MacBook Pro so at least I have the ability to check the old iMac HD as well as the external HD mentioned above that I have always used since purchasing the iMac.Hopefully I can advise further on progress on Tuesday.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="dannyboy22, post: 1951816, member: 312057"] Thanks for the points to check, unfortunately I'm away from home all day Monday so will check on the various suggestions from recent posts on Tuesday. To answer your specific question I ran an external HD to save back ups from Time Machine until the iMac died on me. I've not tried to check if any files that I'm missing could be recovered on that, basically since I have no experience of restoring data. I also used iCloud for some items but not the ones I'm looking for. I've always assumed restoring files from the cloud or any other external back up would be a relatively simple task, but clearly that is not so (for me at least). For info I'm currently using my wife's MacBook Pro so at least I have the ability to check the old iMac HD as well as the external HD mentioned above that I have always used since purchasing the iMac. Hopefully I can advise further on progress on Tuesday. [/QUOTE]

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