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<p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p></p>
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<a href="/article/9431"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9431', 'show')">iWork and iWeb Updated, Apple Restricts Release Notes</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9431" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9431">Apple released updates to iWork and iWeb, but described three of the four updates with a mere eight words (and that's counting "Mac OS X" as three words. Read on, not for a useful description of the updates (which isn't possible), but for Adam's rant at Apple for not trusting us with real information.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=2" class="category">Opinion</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 30 Jan 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9427"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9427', 'show')">DealBITS Discount: Save $30 on MathMagic Equation Editor</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9427" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9427">If you're reading this, you probably didn't win a copy of the MathMagic Personal Edition equation editor in our DealBITS drawing, but you can still save $30 through 06-Feb-08.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=14" class="category">Inside TidBITS</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 28 Jan 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9428"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9428', 'show')">More Podcast Coverage from Macworld Expo</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9428" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9428">Check out these MacVoices and MacNotables podcasts from Macworld Expo with the TidBITS staff.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=6" class="category">Tech News</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 28 Jan 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9429"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9429', 'show')">Rich Mogull Joins TidBITS as Security Editor</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9429" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9429">We're extremely pleased to announce the latest addition to our staff: Rich Mogull, who will be focusing on security issues. </div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=14" class="category">Inside TidBITS</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 28 Jan 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9422"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9422', 'show')">Get Bit Literate, with a Buggy Whip</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9422" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9422">There's a new entrant in the productivity porn genre: Mark Hurst's book "Bit Literacy." But Adam takes exception with, well, nearly everything that Hurst advises. </div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=2" class="category">Opinion</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 25 Jan 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9421"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9421', 'show')">Broken-off Power Tip? See a Jeweler.</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9421" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9421"> A friend called the other day because the tip to his wife's
PowerBook G4 had broken off inside the jack. The local
Apple-authorized repair shop said it would take a week and cost $65
to fix, and his wife couldn't be without the machine that long...</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=18" class="category">Blog Post</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 24 Jan 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9418"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9418', 'show')">Go See Geek Art Graffiti</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9418" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9418">Check this Flickr photo set of famous works of art, all cleverly modified with artifiacts from our own electronic culture. Where else would you see Napoleon juxtaposed with "ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US."? </div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=16" class="category">Just for Fun</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 23 Jan 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9416"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9416', 'show')">Apple Ships Pink iPod nano, Apologizes to Tonya</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9416" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9416">Apple has released a pink iPod nano, just in time for Valentine's Day. This is clearly a hint!</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=17" class="category">iPhone iPad iPod</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 22 Jan 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9417"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9417', 'show')">Apple Beats Earnings Records with Q1 2008 Results</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9417" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9417">Apple has once again posted record revenues and earnings, and now has a whopping $18.4 billion in cash on hand. Analysts drove the company's stock price down in after-hours trading. (The logic eludes us too.)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=6" class="category">Tech News</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 22 Jan 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9412"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9412', 'show')">DealBITS Drawing: Win a Copy of the MathMagic Equation Editor</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9412" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9412">If you need to create equations for papers, reports, or publications, be sure to enter this week's DealBITS drawing to win a copy of the MathMagic equation editor.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=14" class="category">Inside TidBITS</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 21 Jan 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9413"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9413', 'show')">Mac Industry Marching to a Different Beat</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9413" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9413">Is Apple still leading the Macintosh industry, or has the popularity of the Mac and the iPhone created a situation where independent developers can do their own thing and let Apple focus on consumer electronics and online entertainment content sales, along with maintaining the basic Mac and iPhone platforms?</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=2" class="category">Opinion</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 21 Jan 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9397"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9397', 'show')">Adam Pontificates for The Guardian</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9397" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9397"> In advance of Macworld Expo, Charles Arthur of The Guardian, a
prominent UK newspaper, asked me and a number of other former Apple
employees and "expert observers" to predict and pontificate about
what we'll be seeing at Macworld Expo next week...</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=18" class="category">Blog Post</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 11 Jan 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9394"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9394', 'show')">Amazon MP3 Scores DRM-Free Music: What About Apple?</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9394" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9394">Amazon.com has signed up all four major music labels to provide DRM-free music for Amazon MP3. Can we expect Apple to announce an equivalent amount of DRM-free music in the iTunes Store at Macworld?</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=1" class="category">Entertainment</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 10 Jan 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9387"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9387', 'show')">Rogue Amoeba's Live Disc Avoids Wasting CDs</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9387" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9387">Wouldn't it be cool if all those CDs containing demo software that are given away at trade shows could automatically ensure that their contents were always up to date? Rogue Amoeba has figured out how to make it happen.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=7" class="category">Business Apps</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 09 Jan 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9390"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9390', 'show')">Eliminate Hangs in Eudora's Sponsored Mode</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9390" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9390">If you use Eudora in sponsored mode, and it's been freaking out on you every 120 seconds, here's a one-line solution.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=18" class="category">Blog Post</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 09 Jan 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9381"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9381', 'show')">New Mac Pro Goes Eight-Core Before Macworld Expo</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9381" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9381">When "the fastest Mac ever" doesn't make the cut for the Macworld Expo keynote, you have to wonder what Apple's up to. But in the meantime, check out the specs on the new Mac Pro!</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=8" class="category">Macs & Mac OS X</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 08 Jan 2008</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9382" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9382">Not content with updating just the Mac Pro before Macworld Expo, Apple also released a new eight-core update to the Xserve that mimics many of the Mac Pro's specs.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=8" class="category">Macs & Mac OS X</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 08 Jan 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9383"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9383', 'show')">Tips for Better iPhoto Cards</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9383" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9383">If you've been frustrated by the lack of decent text formatting capabilities for cards and books in iPhoto, read on for the secret to full control over your text.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=4" class="category">Media Creation</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 08 Jan 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9380"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9380', 'show')">TidBITS Events at Macworld SF 2008</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9380" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9380">Come find us at Macworld Expo in San Francisco with this handy cheat sheet!</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=14" class="category">Inside TidBITS</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 07 Jan 2008</div></div>
<a href="/article/9374"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9374', 'show')">The Trick to Adjusting Dates in iPhoto Calendars</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9374" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9374">iPhoto calendars make great gifts, but making slightly different versions with different date ranges and events can be tricky. Adam Engst shares some techniques for working around problems in iPhoto.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=4" class="category">Media Creation</a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 26 Dec 2007</div></div>
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