Sine updating to Ventura I no longer see "Enter Time Machine" where I can browse for backed up files. I do see a link to "Browse Time machine Backups" however this does not do the same thing. I am unable to see an backups at all.
Please help, how todo I get back the old "Enter Time Machine" which would allow me to restore old files. Thanks
Hold down the Option key and then access the TM menu and select "Browse Other Backup Disks…".
Select the same disk and see if that will let you browse and restore.
I've also been annoyed by Time Machine for a while, and confused by the removal of "enter time machine", but then I realised that I *can* still do what I used to be able to do, I just have to be much more patient. When I navigate to a specific folder and then select "browse time machine backups", at first I can't access any of them... but if I wait a few minutes, I can. Very irritating but I have got used to it!
Do you have TM back drive recognized and mounted.
terminal commands that might be helpful:
tmutil status
tmutil latestbackup
tmutil listbackups
tmutil machinedirectory
tmutil listlocalsnapshotdates
tmutil destinationinfo
Click on the menu bar icon and select Browse Time Machine Backups
Did you try to restore a file? If not do so and then see if a normal entry into TM will let you see the older backups.
As mentioned above, I can see that but it doesn't work. There are no backups there. I see the timeline but no older files to restore as I could before Ventura and I could Enter Time Machine, that is why I am asking for help. When I click Browse Time Machine Backups I can only see the current folder, no longer the two years of backups to restore as I used to have.
I hope so. I was on the phone with support and they couldn’t fix it, even once they understood what I was saying the problem was. Which took a long time!
Then they said they would ring back but just hung up on me Whalen I answered.
Support used to be good :(
Yes. Obviously I would not try to use Time Machine if the drive was not recognised and mounted.
I can see all the folders and files in finder when I click on the disk icon.
What I am saying is that I am unable to restore from Time Machine as the restores don't show in the timeline since Ventura. I used to be able to restore anything from the last two years, but not now.
This isn't about the drive not being connected.
Ah thanks If I do that I can see restores going back to 2019 and restore, but includes some odd things like the disk Mac HD - data and Recovery.
But then using ™ normally without option and selecting the drive) it goes back to what its was before, ie no restores
Well, for me it works as expected, navigate using the up down chevrons to a historic date, right click on a file and select restore
That's great, but for me, as above, there is no Enter Time Machine. There are no files to restore.
Before this happened I had files going back two years
I don't mind waiting, but waiting for more than 15 minutes for something that used to be immediate? How long is the acceptable amount of time to wait?
It used to work fine.
I agree it's really annoying! And I also agree it used to work fine! I really hope they fix this soon.
Yes I did restore a file but normal use was still not working
Cannot Enter Time Machine
