So, I've been trying to post my results after having problems getting 10.9.4 to function and then my endeavor to get back to 10.9.3.
All I can say at this point is that "restoring" my 10.9.3 Time Machine stuff "worked," but I've got more issues now than when I had updated to 10.9.4. I'm slightly venting here, but please stay with me on this.
All of the following is after "restoring."
Negative: Chimera was not put back on the hard drive. It's not actually an OSX file even though it WAS on the hard drive, not a big deal, easy fix.
Negative: Time Machine claims a "full backup" will take up a total of 162 GB of space. That's a big deal; before restoring, it was 182 GB of space. I'm worried about the discrepancy.
Negative: iMessage won't log me in anymore. I checked, and I still have my serial number and such set in the "About This Mac" section.. guess I'll try and trouble shoot that next. This was a RESTORE after all, I'm unsure why there's all this craziness.
Negative: I keep getting random messages from OSX about a kext file not being supported, but it "loads it anyway." Never had that happen before.
Negative: iPhoto will not load my photo library. A big deal. On top of the fact that it after I clicked the library in finder and it went from 9.65 GB to 8.26ish GB, it won't load. In fact, it froze my hackintosh after trying to get it to load a few times. Another library I have for stuff I keep separate loads fine, though. I restored an earlier version of my main library, same problem. I create a new library and double click the old primary library to import all the photos: it imports all 4k-ish of them, but it does NOT "recognize" my avi/mov files that I had in there. Not entirely sure what they were or how they got in there as the file names were just generically named, but that stresses me. I've deleted all the "original" stuff because I trusted Apple software on a working hackintosh. My mistake, not taking it lightly nor will I repeat that.
Positive: Not sure it's related, but that 1 GB difference in the iPhoto library puts a slight dent in the 20 GB missing. Not sure I call that a positive, really.
Positive: And this is EXTREMELY strange (and unworthy of the trouble so far to get this), my speakers no longer pop when a sound is played. Used to, when OSX would tell me the time and music wasn't playing, it'd pop and then play the audio. Same with iTunes and Youtube when nothing had been playing previously. Nice to not have the loud pop, but I'll take it.
I'll have to keep digging around to see what else is broken. I knew all of this could happen using a Hackintosh; the only thing I'm genuinely concerned about is loss of files and the potential lost of 14 years worth of pictures by trusting everything to iPhoto. I'm going to export my entire photo library to an external drive NOT using Time Machine, but now I have to spend a few days reorganizing my photos, again. And I have to find a way to fix iMessage... again. /sigh
Gah, not to mention I can't account for 19-20 GB of missing files.
TL;DR: Do NOT trust Time Machine for a restore, imo. More is broken after going back to 10.9.3 than was broken when I went to 10.9.4. I think I regret the roll back more than the update.
Btw, I deleted and re-installed iPhoto to try and get that library working hoping that it was a bad sector on the hard drive or something - nope. I also did a complete erasing of my OS HD with the disk utility from my OSX USB drive.
Finally, I did a repair of permissions. When I verified permissions in OSX, it gave a list of plist files that were not correct, and when I tried to fix those, it froze my hackintosh. When I tried to repair them in the OSX USB disk utility, it only found/fixed one for safari.
Goodluck out there, and back up your important stuff manually even if you use Time Machine, in my opinion. ><
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