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Time machine only shows today and yesterday

Like the title says my Time machine isn't showing any other backups past yesterday. I have made sure it isn't currently preparing a backup or in the middle of a backup. I can see the drive in the sidebar of Finder so I know it is connected to my network and my computer. If I click on it I can see the data folder which contains the sparcebundle. I did a verify disk and it was successful with no errors.


Any ideas what I can do? Is the disk corrupted?


MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Nov 5, 2023 6:08 PM

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Nov 6, 2023 7:40 AM in response to s49

Installing Sonoma hosed my user profile and I had to recreate/rename it in Sonoma. When I opened TIme Machine with my Documents folder selected in Finder, TM only displayed the most recent backups that contained my new profile but could not access older backups. All previous backups were visible in the index (on the right) but I could not select them (because the Documents folder in my new profile did not exist).


To get around this, before opening TM, select a system folder or file (like Macintosh HD/Users). This will provide access to all previous backups, then you can browse for your files or folders to restore. I don't remember Time Machine behaving this way in Ventura but this allowed me to restore old data from previous Time Machine backups.

Time machine only shows today and yesterday

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