Recover Meteor JS MongoDB from Time Machine Backup I have recently recovered my Mac with a Time Machine Backup from the beginning of August. Today I ran an existing Meteor JS project and saw that the MongoDB documents were pretty outdated (latest document was from May 25th!).

Do you have any clue how to recover the missing documents? I have made a few backups between May and August but I would like to recover the latest.
Yes - use tmutil to see if the files you are missing were even backed up:

tmutil isexcluded /path/to/the/folder


If you don't have them backed up, you'll have to redo the work. If you did have them backed up, you can copy files using terminal from the destination to your desktop:

cp -rp /Volumes/Backup/Backup.backupdb/host/2015-08-25-000102/Macintosh\ HD/path/to/the/folder ~/Desktop/