I've used Time Machine on all my macs over the last 10 years but when I really needed it a few days ago it failed me miserably.
I bought a new 3TB Sata3 drive for my iMac and (after making sure Time Machine was up to date), following instructions from Youtube, installed it correctly.
Next, I booted off the OSX disc and did a Restore from Time Machine to transfer the original 500GB drive's contents to the new Drive.
When it was finished, all looked normal, until I tried to open Mail - it insisted on importing about 45,000 emails, which crashed at 26,000 ish. When I tried to open Word I had to re-validate my license with the instal DVD code. Next, to my horror, my iPhoto library of about 12,000 photos was missing all this year's photos.
I've tried searching through TM's backup folder but they just aren't there.
That's it for Time Machine. I don't trust it any more.
I still have the original SATA drive, outside the iMac now, so now I want to clone it exactly to the new internal SATA drive inside the iMac, replacing all the corrupt data on it. Is there any way I can do this without having to physically swap the drives again?
Thanks.
I bought a new 3TB Sata3 drive for my iMac and (after making sure Time Machine was up to date), following instructions from Youtube, installed it correctly.
Next, I booted off the OSX disc and did a Restore from Time Machine to transfer the original 500GB drive's contents to the new Drive.
When it was finished, all looked normal, until I tried to open Mail - it insisted on importing about 45,000 emails, which crashed at 26,000 ish. When I tried to open Word I had to re-validate my license with the instal DVD code. Next, to my horror, my iPhoto library of about 12,000 photos was missing all this year's photos.
I've tried searching through TM's backup folder but they just aren't there.
That's it for Time Machine. I don't trust it any more.
I still have the original SATA drive, outside the iMac now, so now I want to clone it exactly to the new internal SATA drive inside the iMac, replacing all the corrupt data on it. Is there any way I can do this without having to physically swap the drives again?
Thanks.