{"id":35952,"date":"2022-05-20T17:26:19","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T21:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=35952"},"modified":"2022-05-20T17:27:50","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T21:27:50","slug":"restoring-contacts-from-a-time-machine-backup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/20\/restoring-contacts-from-a-time-machine-backup\/","title":{"rendered":"Restoring Contacts From a Time Machine Backup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tinyapps.org\/blog\/202205190700_restore-contacts-from-time-machine.html\">Miles Wolbe<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/tinyapps.org\/blog\/202205190700_restore-contacts-from-time-machine.html\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20130901014220\/http:\/\/pondini.org\/TM\/15c.html\">Open Contacts.app then &ldquo;Enter Time Machine&rdquo;<\/a> from menu bar icon to restore (<a href=\"https:\/\/tommyang.github.io\/pondini.org\/TM\/15c.html\">H\/T<\/a>). Note that the &ldquo;Browse Other Backup Disks&#8230;&rdquo; option accessed by Option-clicking the Time Machine menu bar icon <a href=\"https:\/\/tech.kateva.org\/2015\/10\/time-capsule-time-machine-other-backup.html\">really means<\/a> &ldquo;Browse Other Backup Disks for the current device&rdquo;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This didn&rsquo;t work for me. It just showed an empty Contacts window, and none of the Time Machine buttons responded, so I had to force quit. Fortunately, he lists 4 other methods. It seems like to really do it right you need to erase all the contacts in iCloud first:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/tinyapps.org\/blog\/202205190700_restore-contacts-from-time-machine.html\"><p>No consideration is given here to iCloud Contacts sync (though thermo2&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/discussions.apple.com\/message\/16629004#16629004\">20-step procedure<\/a> is reproduced below without prejudice). Back up, back up, back up and understand what you are doing.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miles Wolbe: Open Contacts.app then &ldquo;Enter Time Machine&rdquo; from menu bar icon to restore (H\/T). Note that the &ldquo;Browse Other Backup Disks&#8230;&rdquo; option accessed by Option-clicking the Time Machine menu bar icon really means &ldquo;Browse Other Backup Disks for the current device&rdquo;. This didn&rsquo;t work for me. It just showed an empty Contacts window, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-05-20T21:26:31Z","apple_news_api_id":"b71c0eb3-5e27-45b6-a8b8-9f21a1d2e436","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-05-20T21:27:53Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AtxwOs14nRbaouJ8hodLkNg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[146,131,176,16,30,2077,216],"class_list":["post-35952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-backup","tag-bug","tag-contacts","tag-icloud","tag-mac","tag-macos-12","tag-timemachine"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35953,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35952\/revisions\/35953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}