Comments on: Doing a Time Machine full restore even if it doesn’t want to http://blog.fallingsnow.net/2009/06/02/doing-a-time-machine-full-restore-even-if-it-doesnt-want-to/ life and tech stuff by Evan Phoenix Sat, 29 Oct 2011 15:31:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: duarte http://blog.fallingsnow.net/2009/06/02/doing-a-time-machine-full-restore-even-if-it-doesnt-want-to/#comment-28572 Sat, 29 Oct 2011 15:31:08 +0000 http://blog.fallingsnow.net/?p=85#comment-28572 Thanks!!!!! You are GOD!!! My problem was slightly different. iMac 27 mid-2010 won’t restart after unistalled MacKeeper. Tried all combinations,during three days, verbose, target mode, single user, boot cd, all. Could not get to time machine until I found your post. Used your suggestions and immediately after “Run kill pid_of_installer
You should now get a dark grey background, you’re doing great.” got access to time machine backup. Now restoring, if you don’t hear form me, it went well!!!! Time remaining, 60 hours…hope it will not be true!!!

]]> By: Tim Day http://blog.fallingsnow.net/2009/06/02/doing-a-time-machine-full-restore-even-if-it-doesnt-want-to/#comment-28463 Wed, 19 Oct 2011 08:42:25 +0000 http://blog.fallingsnow.net/?p=85#comment-28463 Every works fine for me but the a get a segmentation Error. Do you have an answer or ideas why? Ive been trying to work at this for 2 days now and I can’t get anywhere. Thank you.

]]> By: vanitylicenseplate http://blog.fallingsnow.net/2009/06/02/doing-a-time-machine-full-restore-even-if-it-doesnt-want-to/#comment-28242 Wed, 28 Sep 2011 01:24:01 +0000 http://blog.fallingsnow.net/?p=85#comment-28242 This worked perfectly! Shame on apple for shipping a faulty installer!

(of note, I did have to use
./”Mac OS X Installer” /System/Installation/Packages/OSUpgrade.pkg
to get it to work)

]]> By: Me http://blog.fallingsnow.net/2009/06/02/doing-a-time-machine-full-restore-even-if-it-doesnt-want-to/#comment-28096 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 06:46:11 +0000 http://blog.fallingsnow.net/?p=85#comment-28096 Thanks heaps, man! Saved my Day and I could restore my MacBook unibody Alu to my older white MacBook. Nice, nice.

]]> By: Gobbles http://blog.fallingsnow.net/2009/06/02/doing-a-time-machine-full-restore-even-if-it-doesnt-want-to/#comment-27756 Fri, 26 Aug 2011 23:47:39 +0000 http://blog.fallingsnow.net/?p=85#comment-27756 I put in the commands exactly as they are shown here, but at step 5 nothing happens and my attempts to enter the following commands is met by Terminal telling me: No such file or directory. What am I doing wrong? I’ve been trying everything to get this to work!

]]> By: vapur http://blog.fallingsnow.net/2009/06/02/doing-a-time-machine-full-restore-even-if-it-doesnt-want-to/#comment-27608 Mon, 15 Aug 2011 04:01:05 +0000 http://blog.fallingsnow.net/?p=85#comment-27608 6th bullet. Run cd “/System/Installation/CDIS/Mac OS X Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/”
Do each Cd level individually. Fixed my problem rest worked as typed.

]]> By: Patrick Furgerson http://blog.fallingsnow.net/2009/06/02/doing-a-time-machine-full-restore-even-if-it-doesnt-want-to/#comment-27446 Sat, 30 Jul 2011 11:24:09 +0000 http://blog.fallingsnow.net/?p=85#comment-27446 Thanks… so glad your help still comes up on Google.

I did have to use the following command:

./Mac\ OS\ X\ Installer “/System/Installation/Packages/OSUpgrade.pkg”

]]> By: firenn http://blog.fallingsnow.net/2009/06/02/doing-a-time-machine-full-restore-even-if-it-doesnt-want-to/#comment-27404 Wed, 27 Jul 2011 06:33:32 +0000 http://blog.fallingsnow.net/?p=85#comment-27404 I know this is an old post but my friend is having this exact issue with his MacBook and I followed everything properly until, like Duncan, didn’t give me the option to restore. Simply asked to install. I was wondering if either Duncan or OP knows how to fix this issue. Thanks!

]]> By: Taylor McCabe http://blog.fallingsnow.net/2009/06/02/doing-a-time-machine-full-restore-even-if-it-doesnt-want-to/#comment-27018 Wed, 22 Jun 2011 19:02:52 +0000 http://blog.fallingsnow.net/?p=85#comment-27018 Please contact me. I have tried your instructions a dozen times. My life and business are on an non accessible back up. I am very experienced on a mac and I cannot get any of these commands to work past the export Lang=en etc. And even that doesn’t show anything. When I kill the Installer and go to grey scree terminal says =bash:3.2#. is this normal?

I have been losing money by the day. I need help please.

]]> By: kenw http://blog.fallingsnow.net/2009/06/02/doing-a-time-machine-full-restore-even-if-it-doesnt-want-to/#comment-26785 Sun, 22 May 2011 22:54:12 +0000 http://blog.fallingsnow.net/?p=85#comment-26785 Thank you so much for posting this. Saved me a trip to the office on a rainy sunday.

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