Two Time Machine Mysteries
Hi
Yesterday, after a successful Time Machine backup I noticed there were two temporary folders on my Desktop, which I should have deleted BEFORE the backup. Hence I entered Time Machine. First I clicked on the second folder in list view to select it, then on the first one (which deselected the other one) so that only the first folder was selected, right clicked on it and deleted that backup. Unfortunately, after a while, BOTH ( ! ) folders had disappeared! I'm 100% sure that just ONE ( ! ) was selected.
I closed TM. Opened it again (I thought refreshing the view would make the one folder (which I didn't select & delete) visible again, but it really was gone.
A few minutes later, because I had modified a small, but important file, I ran Time Machine backup again and noticed a strange behaviour:
First it said , backing up 100MB of 500MB, then just before reaching the 500MB it said backing up 450MB of 800MB, then before reaching the 800MB it said backing up 750MB of 1.2GB and so on (the target backup size got permanently corrected) until 15GB ( ! ) were copied.
I hope someone can explain these two strange incidents, because otherwise I would question the reliability of my backups.
Many thanks.
iMac (27-inch Mid 2010), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)