Data & Images Recovery From Apple Mac

This was an interesting one which took us some time to solve, but solve it we did.

A home user was requesting assistance in getting back some images and data which seemed to have suddenly disappeared after installing El Capitan.

The images were part of the Photos library which had been upgraded from the original iPhotos library.

A Time Machine backup had been taken but they couldn't get into the Time Machine data via Time Machine in order to extract the data.

To make things worse, they had two Apple MACs and it wasn't clear which MAC had taken the Time Machine backup and whether it had worked in the first place.

Long and short of it all is that after a good number of hours we were able to dig into the backups, mount the Time Machine folder and get access to the data which was there, but was very difficult to get at.