Hello
I'm a newbie on this forum so aologies if i'm going over stuff thats been dealt with before.
My hard disc recently failed. I had to have a new one installed. I had been using Back up so I was confident that I would be able to restore my home folder and get everything back.
Sadly I dont think I'd been using Backup in the right way. Rather than simply selecting the back up Home Folder option I made a custom back up of my entire Mac Hard Disc.
Now when I open the Backup folder, rather than being presented with straightforward facilimile of my hard disc, I'm offered a confusing selection of folders which do not correlate with any of my previous settings.
Whats more these folders dont seem to contain any media, but simply house obscure preferences etc.
I have since got my laptop working with a new hard disc but I would somehow like to unpick this old backup folder and retrieve my photos, music and word folders. I'm sure its in there somewhere (the file is 66GB, about the same size as the data stored my old hard disc) it just seems hidden inside this mess of tangled files.
Please help!
I'm running Tiger on a Power PC 17" laptop with 1GB of Ram.
I'm a newbie on this forum so aologies if i'm going over stuff thats been dealt with before.
My hard disc recently failed. I had to have a new one installed. I had been using Back up so I was confident that I would be able to restore my home folder and get everything back.
Sadly I dont think I'd been using Backup in the right way. Rather than simply selecting the back up Home Folder option I made a custom back up of my entire Mac Hard Disc.
Now when I open the Backup folder, rather than being presented with straightforward facilimile of my hard disc, I'm offered a confusing selection of folders which do not correlate with any of my previous settings.
Whats more these folders dont seem to contain any media, but simply house obscure preferences etc.
I have since got my laptop working with a new hard disc but I would somehow like to unpick this old backup folder and retrieve my photos, music and word folders. I'm sure its in there somewhere (the file is 66GB, about the same size as the data stored my old hard disc) it just seems hidden inside this mess of tangled files.
Please help!
I'm running Tiger on a Power PC 17" laptop with 1GB of Ram.