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<blockquote data-quote="Rick T" data-source="post: 1652910" data-attributes="member: 275248"><p>I may have created a problem for myself. Here is the background.</p><p></p><p>In January, my MacBook Pro developed the problem of not booting completely. I would get the Apple ican and only about a 1/4" of progress bar and it would stall. Genius Bar checked it out and found the hardware was sound and no discernible software issue, so they wiped the drive and installed 10.1. I then did a complete restore from Time Machine with no issues.</p><p></p><p>Over the weekend, the boot-up problem recurred. Genius bar could not find anything wrong so the only variable seemed to be the back-up file. The drive was wiped again and the Mac was reverted to a "first use" machine. </p><p></p><p>So as I was setting it up, when I opened Time Machine, it asked which drive I wanted to use. Here is where I believe I went off the tracks. It appears I created a new file that is now resident when I open Time Machine. So when I try to go to a date from last week to restore files, it does not recognize the date as it only knows today's date and the time the file was created.</p><p></p><p>Is there a way to delete this new file so that I can access the original file containing my backups?</p><p></p><p>Assuming there is an answer to question 1 above, the Apple tech told me not to do a full restore since it would likely result in a recurrence of the problem. He said to restore Documents files and reload all applications. The question I did not ask was where is the file that would most likely harbor the "bug?" Documents and Apps are easy, but there are a million other files and how do I know which ones to restore to make sure everything works the way it should?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rick T, post: 1652910, member: 275248"] I may have created a problem for myself. Here is the background. In January, my MacBook Pro developed the problem of not booting completely. I would get the Apple ican and only about a 1/4" of progress bar and it would stall. Genius Bar checked it out and found the hardware was sound and no discernible software issue, so they wiped the drive and installed 10.1. I then did a complete restore from Time Machine with no issues. Over the weekend, the boot-up problem recurred. Genius bar could not find anything wrong so the only variable seemed to be the back-up file. The drive was wiped again and the Mac was reverted to a "first use" machine. So as I was setting it up, when I opened Time Machine, it asked which drive I wanted to use. Here is where I believe I went off the tracks. It appears I created a new file that is now resident when I open Time Machine. So when I try to go to a date from last week to restore files, it does not recognize the date as it only knows today's date and the time the file was created. Is there a way to delete this new file so that I can access the original file containing my backups? Assuming there is an answer to question 1 above, the Apple tech told me not to do a full restore since it would likely result in a recurrence of the problem. He said to restore Documents files and reload all applications. The question I did not ask was where is the file that would most likely harbor the "bug?" Documents and Apps are easy, but there are a million other files and how do I know which ones to restore to make sure everything works the way it should? [/QUOTE]
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