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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.


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Inside TidBITS | 22 Jan 2012 | Print Printer-Friendly Version of This Article | Comment (3)

No TidBITS Membership Signups in Person at Moscone

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We said in “TidBITS Events at Macworld | iWorld 2012” (17 January 2012) that we’d be doing in-person TidBITS membership signups at Moscone West on Friday at 3:00 PM. That had been a last-minute decision, and it was ill-considered. Our friends at IDG World Expo have asked that we don’t do this, since we’re not paying for booth space, which is what’s necessary to conduct business at the show, and that’s entirely reasonable. So we’ll still show up near the escalators in the lobby to chat, but we won’t be taking memberships in person at Moscone.

If you see me somewhere else outside of Moscone, that’s fine, but we won’t be trying to set up any other particular meeting spots this year (though it would be fun to try the Square, it really is easier all around if you sign up online, where we’re still gunning for our goal of 2,000 members in January). Sorry if this change has caused any confusion, and our apologies to the IDG World Expo folks.

 

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Comments about No TidBITS Membership Signups in Person at Moscone

Paul Albert  2012-01-23 23:48
But these are free signups, right?
No money is passing between people, correct?
What's wrong with just a table? Oh, I see it doesn't fit into their model. Well there model is dying anyway.

I'm personally fed up with IDG's greed and won't be attending anyway.
Jeff Carlson  An apple icon for a TidBITS Staffer 2012-01-23 23:56
It's not as nefarious as you might think. A TidBITS Membership is a way for someone to pay us money to support us. (You can read more about it elsewhere on the site.) So money IS passing between people. And when IDG sets up its event, one of the things exhibitors are paying for is the ability to sell goods or services at the show. I'm sure this is common at all such events; otherwise you'd have competitors standing outside the door selling similar wares without having to pay to exhibit at the show.

The Macworld|iWorld folks were very nice and professional about the whole thing, explained the situation and asked politely if we could not do it as originally planned.
Adam Engst  An apple icon for a TidBITS Staffer 2012-01-24 09:23
Jeff's spot on. The mistake was entirely mine - I just completely failed to think about what I was suggesting when I wrote the previous bit at the last minute - and Paul Kent was extremely nice about it.