[Ham-Mac] OS X Time Machine Question on Invisible files and folders

[Patricia Reiff]

I have a dumb question.
My time machine hard drive didn't recognize my laptop so it's making  
me start over with the backups.
And it's running out of space.
I guess I shouldn't have files only on it and have a separate archive  
of files I really need to save but I have deleted from my mac.
Any ideas?

On Jul 31, 2009, at 8:51 PM, Dick Kriss wrote:

> Due a terminal command line error, I deleted the .fldigi folder
> that contained my logs, macros and all kinds of good stuff.
>
> My first recovery attempt was to open the Time Machine and
> use the Restore button on the .fldigi folder from one of the
> recent backups.
>
> Good plan but I could not figure out how to view the invisible
> files or folders in the Time Machine backups.  If you can't
> see things like the .fldigi folder, you can't use the TM Restore
> button.
>
> Thanks to having a good SuperDuper backup and the Main
> Menu utility, I was able to recovery the invisible .fldigi folder
> and everything is working great.
>
> For the next time I screw-up, is there a way to view and
> Restore hidden files from a Time Machine backup?
>
> 73 Dick AA5VU
>
>
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