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Time Machine backups greyed out

Hi,

All of my Time Machine backups older than a week are now greyed out. No matter where I decide to start TM from on the desktop nothing appears in TM older than a week and I have been using TM for over a year now. So this isn;t a problem with TM not being able to find backups of newly-created documents etc.

I did have internal disk problems about the same time a week ago and had to restore from another cloned disk. My guess is that the old TM backups are now no longer accessible from my iMac as it thinks that I am now using a new machine (from the cloned recovery).

My questions are:

Is there any way that I can access the old backups, and
if not, is there a way to recover the disk space on the TC?

My TC is 2Gb and currently I'm down to 760Gb free space so if I can't recover the old files I would rather get the space back as long as it doesn't mean that I need to reformat the disk.

Thanks

Rob

iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on Jul 28, 2011 11:36 AM

135 replies

Pondini

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Jul 14, 2012 6:45 AM in response to tolgao

Yes it is. But you won't find it via a Spotlight search, or via a Finder search (unless you specify system files).

You must navigate to it, per #A7 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting.

tolgao

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Jul 16, 2012 3:17 AM in response to tolgao

Correction to my last post:

How can I change the names of theTimeMachine backups which are on the external USB Disk connected with USB Cable to TimeCapsule ?

tolgao

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Jul 16, 2012 1:39 PM in response to Pondini

You are like Google. 🙂 When I have a questions, you always have answers.

Pondini

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Jul 16, 2012 1:44 PM in response to tolgao

😁

Pondini

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Jul 17, 2012 12:27 PM in response to tolgao

Great! Sounds like you may have accidentally moved those instead of copying -- it's easy to do. 😉

So now make sure your backups of the new account work ok.

tolgao

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Jul 18, 2012 9:15 AM in response to tolgao

Are you there ? Is there any solution to this problem ? Yes or No ? What do you suggest me to do now ?

Pondini

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Jul 18, 2012 9:55 AM in response to tolgao

tolgao wrote:

Are you there ? Is there any solution to this problem ? Yes or No ? What do you suggest me to do now ?

Sorry, I'm here a lot, but I'm not online 24/7.

Pondini

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Jul 20, 2012 7:20 AM in response to tolgao

Great! 🙂

Glad it's sorted out, and sorry it was such a hassle. Someday, maybe, Apple will figure out what goes wrong, and either fix it or provide a better workaround.

tolgao

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Jul 21, 2012 1:39 PM in response to Pondini

you mean deleting the application ?

Pondini

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Jul 21, 2012 1:42 PM in response to tolgao

Yup.

tolgao

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Jul 21, 2012 1:48 PM in response to Pondini

do you mean i have to delete all apps and reinstall again ? can you explain abit more ?

tolgao

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Jul 23, 2012 3:21 AM in response to Pondini

Should I do Reset Permissions on my new account one more time ? or Don't I need to ? Can I also install Mountain Lion when it is released ? Would that be problem installing Mountain Lion ?

tolgao

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Jul 23, 2012 7:43 AM in response to Pondini

How about Disk Permissions in Disk Utility ? Does it fixes top-level Applications folder ?

tolgao

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Jul 23, 2012 9:12 AM in response to Pondini

When do you think it will be best time to delete my Home Folder in old account ? So that I will gain some free space.

Pondini

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Jul 28, 2012 8:15 AM in response to tolgao

Must be some sort of network glitch. It's clearly not a real device or connection.

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