I’m on the lookout for some assist recovering a Time Machine backup. I’ve an older iMac operating macOS 10.6.8 linked to an exterior Apple drive. Again in 2018 the unique exhausting drive within the iMac failed. I used to be in a position to efficiently set up a brand new exhausting drive and cargo the OS. On the time I attempted recovering a Time Machine backup of the entire laptop however it could not overwrite the recordsdata on the brand new drive.

On the time I assumed the problem was as a result of I named the substitute exhausting drive a special identify. I ended up simply leaving it because it wasn’t a main laptop.

Not too long ago I wished to get better my recordsdata and previous photos so I revisited. I discovered I may connect with Time Machine and see the entire previous again ups going again to love 2010. I attempted highlighting the drive identify within the Time Machine backup and recovering however it encountered a message saying it couldn’t change the system folder.

After doing a little searches on-line I attempted making a second admin person and recovering Time Machine with the identical outcome.

Subsequent I assumed I might strive making a brand new Time Machine backup to see if that made any distinction. After it was full I may not see the entire unique backups by means of Time Machine or the Finder.

I’m guessing the brand new backup modified permissions or the identify of the backups and I can not see them? My exterior drive was solely at about 25% of capability so Time Machine shouldn’t have overwritten the older recordsdata.

How can I get better my previous photos?