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Extract Directly from Time Machine

Normally you use Time Machine to restore lost data in a file like this: within the Time Machine interface, you go back to the time the file was not yet messed up, and you restore it to replace the file you have now.

You can also elect to keep both, but the restored file takes the name and place of the current one. So, if you have made changes since the backup took place that you would like to keep, they are lost, or you have to mess around a bit to merge changes, rename files, and trash the unwanted one.

As an alternative, you can browse the Time Machine backup volume directly in the Finder like any normal disk, navigate through the chronological backup hierarchy, and find the file which contains the lost content.

Once you've found it, you can open it and the current version of the file side-by-side, and copy information from Time Machine's version of the file into the current one, without losing any content you put in it since the backup was made.

Submitted by
Eolake Stobblehouse

 

 

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The Future Beyond Tomorrow, Courtesy of Adobe

Adobe wrote in to tell us that my article about GoLive CS2 being dropped from the the forthcoming Adobe Creative Suite 2.3 bundle and replaced with Dreamweaver 8 was incorrect. Sort of.

The press release for the announcement noted, "Future versions of Adobe Creative Suite will integrate Dreamweaver as a replacement for Adobe GoLive. Adobe will continue to develop GoLive as a standalone product." However, the future, according to the email I received, isn't just any time after the present point. Rather, the future is the time beyond the release of Creative Suite 2.3 later this year. Dreamweaver will be bundled with, but not integrated into, the 2.3 version of the suite.

Some other future release - we're talking about the future beyond the future now, most likely Creative Suite 3.0 next year - will integrate Dreamweaver into the suite, after which GoLive will become a standalone product.

Perhaps Adobe PR should have a group viewing of "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension," in which they can peruse the motto of Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems, "Where the future begins tomorrow." Bonus points for anyone who can figure out the other Buckaroo Banzai reference in this issue.

 

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