Time Machine

Go to time machine symbol at top of screen select drop down "Enter Time Machine" select the date and file you want to restore from and select restore from a right hand click.

 

I've read this sentence 3 times. It makes absolutely no sense.

Come again?

 

You don't need to go via TimeMachine app to restore files. You can do the same in Finder. Just mount the correct backup volume. If it's on network drive, you mount the sparsebundle first.

 

That sounds like you have no backups.

 

That is what I was going to say. You beat me.

 

Time machine opens to the folder that you have showing, when you enter time machine, so if you open time machine from desktop and you have nothing on your desktop the window will be empty in time machine. When in time machine, if you click on all my files does it show any files. Also when you click on the time machine symbol it will tell you when the last backup was.