Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
Mail
To restore messages, notes, or to-do items in Mail:
1. In Mail, navigate to any view in which the item you're looking for
should appear—say, your Inbox, another mailbox, or the Notes
folder. (You can't select smart mailboxes, unfortunately.)
2. Click the Time Machine icon in the Dock or choose Enter Time
Machine from the Time Machine
menu. Mail becomes the center
of the “time warp” screen.
3. Using the back and forward arrows, or the navigation controls on
the right side of the screen, move to one of your backups.
4. Select one or more items and click Restore.
Mail creates a new local mailbox (in the “On My Mac” section of the
sidebar), and inside that, a second mailbox called Recovered Messages;
the restored items are put in this mailbox. From there, you can drag
them to another location. If you later restore more items in Mail
without first deleting the Recovered Messages mailbox, Mail creates
yet another mailbox, Recovered Messages 1—incrementing the number
each time. (Not the most intuitive system, eh?)
GarageBand
To restore a project in GarageBand '08 or later to an earlier state:
1. In GarageBand, make sure the project in question is open.
2. Click the Time Machine icon in the Dock or choose Enter Time
Machine from the Time Machine menu. GarageBand becomes
the center of the “time warp” screen.
3. Using the back and forward arrows, or the navigation controls on
the right side of the screen, move to one of your backups. Assuming
your GarageBand project was configured to save previews at the
time of your backups, you can click the Play icon in the center of the
window to preview your project as it existed at that point.
4. When you've found the one you want to restore, click Restore.
