Browse for Individual Files in a Time Machine Backup
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If you backed up your Mac using Time Machine and would only like to recover specific files, don’t worry. I needed to do this recently when I cloned my hard drive onto my new solid state drive.
1 – Open Finder
Open a new Finder window.
2 – Find your Time Machine disk (backup drive) in Finder
Locate and select your Time Machine drive in Finder.
3 – Search for the “Backups.backupdb” folder
Search or browse the Time Machine drive for the Backups.backupdb
folder. This folder to find the individual files and folders you’re looking for.