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Comment on Doing a Time Machine full restore even if it doesn’t want to by duarte

duarte — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 15:31:08 +0000

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!!!

Comment on Doing a Time Machine full restore even if it doesn’t want to by Tim Day

Tim Day — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 08:42:25 +0000

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.

Comment on Doing a Time Machine full restore even if it doesn’t want to by vanitylicenseplate

vanitylicenseplate — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 01:24:01 +0000

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)

Comment on Doing a Time Machine full restore even if it doesn’t want to by Me

Me — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 06:46:11 +0000

Thanks heaps, man! Saved my Day and I could restore my MacBook unibody Alu to my older white MacBook. Nice, nice.

Comment on Doing a Time Machine full restore even if it doesn’t want to by Gobbles

Gobbles — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 23:47:39 +0000

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!

Comment on Doing a Time Machine full restore even if it doesn’t want to by vapur

vapur — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 04:01:05 +0000

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.

Comment on Doing a Time Machine full restore even if it doesn’t want to by Patrick Furgerson

Patrick Furgerson — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 11:24:09 +0000

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”

Comment on Fixing colors in Terminal.app on 10.6 by Benjamin Oakes

Benjamin Oakes — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:51:33 +0000

If this doesn’t work on OS X Lion, you night also try iTerm 2 which has better color support than Terminal.app.

However, I seem to remember reading that Apple made improvements to Terminal.app in Lion, so better color support might be baked in now.

Comment on Fixing colors in Terminal.app on 10.6 by pk kula

pk kula — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 07:02:52 +0000

I’ve found Lion by default supports colors quite well. In your theme (Basic or Pro or Novel, or whatever you have setup as your default theme) just change the colors that are now shown clearly on the right in the Preferences window of Terminal. That’s it. You don’t need any TerminalColors etc

Comment on Doing a Time Machine full restore even if it doesn’t want to by firenn

firenn — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 06:33:32 +0000

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!