How I could easily have recovered all my lost photographs

In a blog post made on 26 September entitled How I lost all my photographs - and got them back, I wrote of how I lost 99% of my image files and recovered them via Backblaze cloud storage.

I did this despite the fact that I had everything backed up on a Time Machine drive on my desk. I just couldn’t find a way to make TM restore the files as the “mount point“ of my reformatted drive had changed.

Well … surprise surprise, Apple allows such a restore - and it’s easy. Had I found Melissa Holt’s web page How to Restore Files to an External Drive with Time Machine, I could have had everything back overnight, and with almost no stress!!

I suggest you read Melissa’s piece. It could save suicidal thoughts in the future.