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If you ever need to do a salvage operation after you've left your Time Machine disk on another continent for a month or two, these two articles will come in very handy. I think I've got everything now, so it's time to wipe and reinstall my normal configuration.

Afternoon update: Salvage and restore now completed - whatever I didn't rescue from that drive is now gone. Conclusions: 1. Late 2008 MacBook hardware is unreliable, rickety and prone to overheating. 2. However, there seems to be no permanent damage to the drive. I could restore to the hard drive I already had. 3. Time Machine is useful but is not the saviour of back-up and restore as I previously thought. I had a hard time importing from it and eventually gave up and imported from my external emergency disk (which was itself imported from Time Machine; funny that) instead.

Now I can at least scan my next update. That means I'd better go finish drawing it.

Tags: how to salvage data from your mac

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