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Can’t access pre-Mojave time machine backups anymore (used to work)

So after encountering a ton of problems and essentially breaking my mac trying to fix them I had to make a clean install on my MacBookPro. I decided it’d be best to not restore from a backup but start fresh and only get the important data out of the backups. Piece of cake I thought...

So I installed and configured my mac on Mojave (it used to be El Capitan before) and start using Time Machine. The backup is stored on a NAS Server. It took a long time to load but eventually I could start copying the files I wanted to my fresh Mac, but then disaster struck: After I about 50gb / half of the files, I got an error for all the current copy processes of the files (file not found it was I think, 0). That happens, so I try to access the backup to copy it again, but no backup from before the clean install of mojave will load. It just sits there telling me to wait. Furthermore it is greyed out.


I can’t use the arrows to navigate beyond the post-mojave backups, but on the sidebar, despite being greyed out, I can still click on the different dates, but there it will just tell me: Wait: *date of selected backup* as seen in the pic.


I have no idea what may have caused this as I just let the computer sit for copying and frankly I only really care about getting access back to my data. (And yes I have tried turning it off and on again).

I still have about 50gb of files I absolutely need to get access to. Any tipps on making it work again?


(PS: apologize for taking the pictures of the screen with a phone, barbaric I know...)

MacBook Pro 15", macOS 10.14

Posted on Apr 2, 2019 5:32 PM

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And just like that, 12 hours later, it works again...

Posted on Apr 3, 2019 12:03 AM

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Can’t access pre-Mojave time machine backups anymore (used to work)

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