Restore a Time Machine backup to your Mac 1. First open the Apple Migration Assistant on your MacBook laptop or Apple desktop computer.

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Time Machine is a free and native built-in backup feature available on all Mac models that allows you to create incremental backups, restore your Mac, and browse files.

Time Machine can restore Mac files individually and from a particular date and time while presenting the information in a fun, user-friendly way.

2) Using Time Machine once booted fully into macOS. When I do this, it sees the backups from 2016-12-10 and earlier, but it won't allow me to select them to restore from those images.

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These backups are saved until your Time Machine disk if full, at which point the utility will automatically delete the oldest backups to make room for new ones.