Please don't post screenshots of log messages-post the text. Please don't indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion. A few dozen lines are almost always more than enough. When posting a log extract, be selective. The log contains a vast amount of information, almost all of which is irrelevant to solving any particular problem. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Select any lines that appear in the Console window. Then try the failed restore operation again. If you don't see that list, selectįrom the menu bar at the top of the screen.Ĭlick the Clear Display icon in the toolbar. If it isn't, selectįrom the log list on the left. The title of the Console window should be All Messages.

☞ Open LaunchPad and start typing the name. The application is in the folder that opens. ☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.) ☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Launch the Console application in any of the following ways: I've tried using 'a' data Recovery software, it appears the files are out there on my external drive with the Time machine backups, although I haven't attempted to restore with generic recovery software.Īny ideas would be appreciated as I thought things were pretty routine and felt I was in good shape with multiple backups but they don't appear to be totally restoring or I'm missing something. Or the other message I get often is it can't copy or delete the files because they're in use by OS-X. When I try to use 'Time Machine' for specific folders/data(pics, docs, etc.)with what I believe are good backups and no obvious errors, it starts up stating it's preparing the files for copy and then I get a message stating it can't complete the function(error 8003 I believe). And of course my files are the most critical. She has all her pics, emails, docs, etc However, mine acts like a complete new load. My wife's stuff 'all' seemed to come back like I expected. I have 3 users/accounts on same Mac and has been working fine for 3 years. After restoring things(although at first said it would be 3 hours and then completed in 30 min.), all looked normal but no pics, docs, phonebook entries, downloads, emails, etc. After reading about this issue, and the strong possibility the HDD was failing, I followed the 'Restore' procedure from the Disk utility(command R). Hello, I had a start up issue with only a grey screen and spinning wheel.

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