# Timemachine recovery

**URL:** <https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/timemachine-recovery/45512>\
**Category:** RapidWeaver Elements\
**Created:** [December 5, 2024, 3:46pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/timemachine-recovery/45512 "2024-12-05T15:46:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![kevino](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/kevino/32/2801_2.png) [@kevino](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/kevino)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2024, 3:46pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/timemachine-recovery/45512/1 "2024-12-05T15:46:24Z")

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I was messing about with the snowstorm tutorial and wrecked my project. No worries, I have a Time Machine backup. I recovered the backup and then tried to open it. Elements couldn’t open the file. Weird. Looking at it more closely, I had selected “keep both copies” when restoring. The file name generated from that had “(from backup)” appended to the file name but after the elements suffix. I changed the name to allow “.elements” to be at the end of the name and all was well. I’m not sure if this is something I did or if the suffix needs registered somehow. It was quirky but it did work.