“The Mac mini which lives under the TV set and acts as a souped-up media centre alerted me today to an update of eyeTV, the marvellous TV recording software. I duly updated – I update everything – and found that it refused to launch,” Ian Betteridge reports for Technovia.
“Thankfully, though, the Mac mini is backed up using Time Machine [part of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard], which means that all I needed to do was step back an hour, select the old version of the eyeTV application, and all was fixed,” Betteridge reports. “So, thank you, Apple.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Have you been saved by Time Machine, yet?
Jake-
Did you click the green button on the top left of the window? Did you try and resize the window manually?
Time Machine how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me. My app was lost but now its found, my Mac’s as new as can be.
Command-F in iTunes will bring any video to full screen. Not sure why they changed to showing the video initially in it’s native resolution.
Yes,
Time machine has saved my butt quite a few time, the iBook took a dump when trying to install a driver for a gamepad. Also I used Time Machine to transfer all my data from my iBook to my brand new iMac. Painless and easy.
Thank you Steve!
Sorry Apple, Time Machine didn’t save my friends Mac
He used Time Machine, installed a OS X update that hosed his machine, tried to boot off the Time Machine NO GO.
Did a fresh install off OS X install disk and attempted to revert everything else from Time Machine. NO GO.
Now if he would have CLONED his boot drive to a external once a week (with daily file updates) it would have be a easy thing to simply “hold option boot” from the clone and recover/repair/reverse clone.
BUT NO!!! Apple makes Time Machine drives unbootable. So take it from me CLONE!!
Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper!!
One free and original, the other a commercial clone (haha)
Either case, cloning saves the boot drive failure day, with being back to a working machine in a mere few minutes.
Yes! Yes! I say a-yes!! I was a-saved-ah by the glorious miracle of his holiness’ the Time Machine. By the nefarious plottings and doings of Satan himself, I accidentally hosed a file with an irreversible command. Two weeks of sacrifice, nearly attained by the grace of his Holiness, all destroyed in an instant by….. SATAN!!! Well, The Almighty God, in his all glory, smited Satan after hypnotizing him with his holy, receding starfield of sanctity! And, ALAS, a non-hosed copy of the file was found! Thus, once again, foiling Satan’s evil doings and allowing good and purity to reign supreme!
(Well, except for last night when my girlfriend and I watched “All Anal – Volume 8” together. Satan won that time. And, boy, was it fun!)
I wish I had it 2 days ago when I accidentally erased a couple of my EyeTV recordings. I guess its time for me to get a TB HD and Leopard.
Boy do I feel stupid.
My rss feeds in Safari mysteriously stopped working, messed around in the rss database trying to fix things only made it wors. Just stepped back a week and restored them.
I’ve also accidentally overwritten files that TM let me just pop back and restore.
It’s great!
Jake….. i noticed the same with purchased videos from iTunes; once they are completely downloaded though, i watched them in full screen via QT Player.. works like a charm.
Dialtone – You are given the option to replace the original, keep the original (and do nothing), or copy the old file AND keep the original, in which case the original has the word “original” appended to its name.