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Recovering virtual disk from backup
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1663130"><p>If you right click (ctrl-click) on the alias, then Get Info, you will see in the resulting window in the top third "Original: xxxxxx" where the "xxxxxx" is the path to the actual file itself. The alias is just a pointer, nothing more. So your statement that is not correct. You can find the original the alias is pointing to and it should act exactly the same way. All the alias does is point to the file, as I said.</p><p></p><p>So, you can find out where the original is, and then navigate to it in the TM window and restore the file. However, now that you've buggered the alias with the new file it's pointing to, you may have to use TM to restore the alias first from before the problem started, then exit TM, do the Get Info on the restored Alias to find out where the original is/was, and then go back to TM to find the original file and restore it. Then you can navigate to where the original is/was, right click on it and "Make Alias" and then drag the alias to wherever you want it to reside.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1663130"] If you right click (ctrl-click) on the alias, then Get Info, you will see in the resulting window in the top third "Original: xxxxxx" where the "xxxxxx" is the path to the actual file itself. The alias is just a pointer, nothing more. So your statement that is not correct. You can find the original the alias is pointing to and it should act exactly the same way. All the alias does is point to the file, as I said. So, you can find out where the original is, and then navigate to it in the TM window and restore the file. However, now that you've buggered the alias with the new file it's pointing to, you may have to use TM to restore the alias first from before the problem started, then exit TM, do the Get Info on the restored Alias to find out where the original is/was, and then go back to TM to find the original file and restore it. Then you can navigate to where the original is/was, right click on it and "Make Alias" and then drag the alias to wherever you want it to reside. [/QUOTE]
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