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Q: Time Machine shows wrong/impossible time and date

Hello @ all!

My time machine backup show impossible dates and now I don't know which is the right file.

for example: If I look for a file and go with time machine to yesterday, it shows me files with time and date of today.

How is that possible? Can I fix this?

MacBook Pro, 2,33 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, 15", Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Posted on Aug 10, 2013 1:14 AM

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  • by Linc Davis,

    Linc Davis Linc Davis Aug 10, 2013 8:56 AM in response to alexri
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    Aug 10, 2013 8:56 AM in response to alexri

    Please post a screenshot that shows what you mean. Be careful not to include any private information.

    Start a reply to this message. Click the camera icon in the toolbar of the editing window and select the image file to upload it. You can also include text in the reply.

  • by alexri,

    alexri alexri Aug 10, 2013 3:06 PM in response to Linc Davis
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    Aug 10, 2013 3:06 PM in response to Linc Davis

    tm.png

    Here is the screenshot. It doesn't matter to what time I go, there are always files with a date after that time which should be impossible, shouldn't it?

    Heute is German for today. You can see I have traveled in time to today, 0:59 am. but the files in the finder window are all dated after that time.

  • by Linc Davis,

    Linc Davis Linc Davis Aug 10, 2013 3:34 PM in response to alexri
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    Aug 10, 2013 3:34 PM in response to alexri

    You have both local snapshots (represented by gray marks in the timeline) and Time Machine snapshots (purple marks.) If a local snapshot is selected, select a TM snapshot and compare.

  • by alexri,

    alexri alexri Aug 11, 2013 5:27 AM in response to Linc Davis
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    Aug 11, 2013 5:27 AM in response to Linc Davis

    Hello Linc,

    thank you for your reply. I didn't recognize that there are two "colors".

    But still. Neither the time machine snapshot nor the the local snapshots should show the wrong time and date?

    And there is something else which confuses me. Why do the different snapshots have a different amount of files (please look at the other screenshot)?

    Best wishes, Alex

     

    tm.png

  • by Linc Davis,

    Linc Davis Linc Davis Aug 11, 2013 8:47 AM in response to alexri
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    Aug 11, 2013 8:47 AM in response to alexri

    What's wrong with the dates in that screenshot? They're all earlier than the date of the snapshot.

     

    The modification times of folders in a local snapshot are not meaningful.

  • by Alan Nesbitt,

    Alan Nesbitt Alan Nesbitt Mar 22, 2015 6:03 AM in response to Linc Davis
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    Mar 22, 2015 6:03 AM in response to Linc Davis

    I have exactly the same problem. The answers here seem unhelpful or even wrong.  The dates on the file wills will obviously be earlier than the snapshot.  That's not OP's problem.  The issue is that the modified times are after the backup times.  A backup cannot contain files changed after the backup. Saying that displayed dates are "not meaningfull" is just strange. It would be a huge bug to show 'meaningless' values on the screen in the finder.

     

    So no answer to this strange issue that I can see as well.