# Restore RW Themes and Plugins from Time Machine?

**URL:** <https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/restore-rw-themes-and-plugins-from-time-machine/1965>\
**Category:** RapidWeaver Classic\
**Created:** [August 27, 2015, 11:53pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/restore-rw-themes-and-plugins-from-time-machine/1965 "2015-08-27T23:53:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![paul](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/paul/32/134_2.png) [@paul](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/paul)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 11:53pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/restore-rw-themes-and-plugins-from-time-machine/1965/1 "2015-08-27T23:53:11Z")

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I have had to restore my machine from a Time Machine backup and now the RW themes and plugins do not work. They appear to be in the right place but do not seem to work? Any ideas?

Thanks!

Paul

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**Author:** ![MarkSealey](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/marksealey/32/22895_2.png) [@MarkSealey](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/MarkSealey)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2015, 12:55am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/restore-rw-themes-and-plugins-from-time-machine/1965/2 "2015-08-28T00:55:14Z")

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Paul,

Are you on _RW5_ or _6_?

When you say that your Themes and Plugins don’t ‘work’, what exactly is happening, please?

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**Author:** ![paul](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/paul/32/134_2.png) [@paul](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/paul)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2015, 1:41am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/restore-rw-themes-and-plugins-from-time-machine/1965/3 "2015-08-28T01:41:10Z")

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Thx Mark!

We are at 6.3.3 and opening the project in RW but our project “requires a plugin that isn’t currently installed.”

I guess I have them somehow in the wrong folder…

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**Author:** ![MarkSealey](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/marksealey/32/22895_2.png) [@MarkSealey](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/MarkSealey)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2015, 2:33am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/restore-rw-themes-and-plugins-from-time-machine/1965/4 "2015-08-28T02:33:10Z")

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Paul,

RW5 kept its Plugins and Themes in _~/Library/Application Support/RapidWeaver_

Could it be that the TM backup pulled from there and so - understandably - restored to there as well?

Whereas _RW6_ uses _~/Containers/com.realmacsoftware.rapidweaver6/Data/Library/Application Support/RapidWeaver_

What’s in that latter location now, Paul?

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**Author:** ![LaPan](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/lapan/32/92_2.png) [@LaPan](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/LaPan)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2015, 3:26am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/restore-rw-themes-and-plugins-from-time-machine/1965/5 "2015-08-28T03:26:09Z")

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Mark is correct, Time Machine will restore them in their original location unless you suggest another. Here’s an article to restore a file somewhere else:

[http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/time\_machine\_restoring\_files\_to\_specific\_locations](http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/time_machine_restoring_files_to_specific_locations)

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**Author:** ![paul](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/paul/32/134_2.png) [@paul](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/paul)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2015, 10:48am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/restore-rw-themes-and-plugins-from-time-machine/1965/6 "2015-08-28T10:48:36Z")

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Thanks Mark (& LaPan), I have now restored that “containers” directory and all is fixed!

I had done a specific restore of “necessary” files when I reinstalled the system and missed that - as frankly the sandboxing directory structure is a bit confusing 😄

Thanks again!

Paul