time machine app unresponsive

my mac is telling me "Can't connect to a current time machine backup disk." when I try to open the time machine app. What do I do?

MacBook Air (2020 or later)

Posted on Apr 4, 2022 3:43 PM

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Ronasara

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Apr 5, 2022 11:13 AM in response to Merrigas26

Were you able to do so before? If so, what has changed. Typically when being unable to access a Time Machine storage disk, the problem is that the disk is not correctly formatted.

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