Restoring old files from Time Maching
I have a mid-2011 iMac running 10.13.6. I run Time Machine every day, so eventually the disk fills up. TM then deletes older files to make room for my current ones. It then gives me a message saying it had to do this, and tells me the oldest date remaining on the backup disk - currently May 2022. I've always understood this and it's OK by me.
However, when I go to 'Enter Time Machine' it only shows backups to May 2023. Its 'backups.backupdb' file does, in fact, have entries back to 2022. How come 'Enter Time Machine' doesn't include everything back to 2022? Can I not recover a file older than May 2023?
Thanks in advance for any thoughts -
- TheOldFart
iMac 21.5″, 10.13