Cannot reconnect to my Time Machine Backup

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Cannot reconnect to my Time Machine Backup

I inadvertantly chose a different external drive for my time machine backup. When I realized what I had done, I went back to TM Preferences and although I see the external drive in Finder, it is not listed as an available drive for Time Machine's "Select Backup Disk". Is there any way to reconnect? If I Browse Other TM Disks, I can see all of my TM backups. But not when I try to select the disk. Any suggestions? Thank you.

iMac 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on Aug 30, 2011 7:14 AM

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Answer 1

David Gasser Author

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Aug 31, 2011 3:10 AM in response to David Gasser

For instance, is there something in one of those earlier TM backups that I could restore to get back to the moment before I disconnected the TM disk? I can see those earlier backups...

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Answer 2

BDAqua

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Aug 31, 2011 3:24 AM in response to David Gasser

/Hi David,

No TM expert here, but try turning it off & See if Migration Assistant can see the Backups!?

Or Safe Boot , (holding Shift key down at bootup), use Disk Utility from there to Repair Permissions, copy/move this file to the Desktop, then trash the original...

/Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist

Reboot and setup TM again.

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