THM does anyone know how to open a picture that says THM??

A .thm file is probably just a thumbnail image of a video, not a full file. If you do want to view the thumbnail, you can try making a duplicate of the image and changing the extension to .jpg and see if Preview will then open it. If that doesn't work, then without knowing what software created this thumbnail, it's difficult if not impossible to determine what you might need to open it.

BTW, posting a URL to a file on your hard drive doesn't do anyone any good, since we can't view nor download anything on your system.

Regards.

How about Apple's own Preview app?

Do you have a link to an example of one of these files?

Huh? Sorry, I don't follow. Nothing in the OP's information indicates that this is associated with Time Machine in any way unless I've missed something. It appears to be a file on a flash drive, given the URL provided, and again is probably a thumbnail image.

fine print small type you mean?

heck we get so many laptop posts every AM I think there ought to be a traffic cop.

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just 'cause someone doesn't mention something? really? people list everything that matters now?

Microsoft Home Publishing was a suite of applications and other stuff, not a single application, so I'm not certain what it is you need. But if you're looking for something to create business cards, here are a couple of possibilities:

SOHO Business Cards 3.0.4

Business Card Composer 5.1.2

Home Business Card 1.3.7

One of those might work for you.

Regards.

Just rename the file.

How large?

Now Lion and laptops they store and hold backups locally until a TimeMachine hard drive is connected.

Nothing to do with backup or synching I suppose?