User manual
Table Of Contents
- Bento® 4
- Welcome to Bento
- Overview of Bento
- Using Libraries
- Using the Address Book Library
- Migrating the iCal, iPhoto, and Address Book Libraries
- Using Collections
- Using Form View
- About Forms
- Creating Records in Form View
- Editing Records in Form View
- Duplicating Records in Form View
- Deleting Records in Form View
- Creating Forms
- Deleting Forms
- Showing and Hiding Forms
- Duplicating Forms
- Copying Forms
- Renaming Forms
- Locking and Unlocking Forms
- Adding Fields to a Form
- Tabbing Between Fields
- Moving Fields and Objects on Forms
- Resizing Fields and Objects
- Removing Fields from a Form
- Customizing Form Layouts
- Using Table View
- About Table View
- Selecting Records in Table View
- Creating Records in Table View
- Editing Records in Table View
- Duplicating Records in Table View
- Deleting Records in Table View
- Sorting Records
- Working with Fields and Columns in Table View
- Creating Fields in Table View
- Adding Fields in Table View
- Working with Media Fields in Table View
- Changing Options for a Field in Table View
- Completing Text Automatically as You Type
- Duplicating Fields
- Changing the Field Type
- Showing and Hiding Columns
- Deleting Fields in Table View
- Reordering Columns
- Resizing Columns
- Filling Fields Automatically
- Summarizing Column Data
- Using Grid View
- Using Fields
- Importing, Exporting, and Printing
- Backing Up and Restoring Information
- Syncing
- Keyboard Shortcuts
- Reverting to a Previous Version of Bento
- Index
Chapter 11 Backing Up and Restoring Information 127
Using Time Machine with Bento
Time Machine is the Mac OS X application that backs up your computer (including
Bento data) on a regular basis. You can use Time Machine to restore the Bento data
from a specific backup date and time.
When you restore data from a Time Machine backup, you replace all of the data that is
in Bento with the contents of the backup file.
To set up the Time Machine options:
1 Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, and then click Time Machine.
2 In the Time Machine preferences, slide the switch to ON and choose a backup
disk.
3 Verify that the user's Library folder is backed up by Time Machine. (By default,
Time Machine backs up your entire hard drive.)
To restore Bento data using Time Machine:
1 Quit Bento.
2 (Optional) If you display Address Book or iCal application data in Bento,
restore the data from each application first. (The Bento backup file does not
include data from those applications.) For more information, see
”Backing Up
Address Book and iCal Data” on page 124.
3 Open a Finder window and go to the Bento folder in the user’s Library folder:
Library/Application Support/Bento/
4 Open Time Machine from the Dock or the Applications folder.
5 Use the arrows or the timeline along the right side of your screen to browse
through all the backups that Time Machine has created.
6 When you find the date for the data you want to restore, select the file
bento.bentodb and then click Restore.
7 Click Replace in the confirmation dialog.
The restored bento.bentodb file is copied to Library/Application Support/Bento/,
replacing all of the data that is in Bento.
8 Open Bento. Bento loads the contents of the restored bento.bentodb file.