my tc indicates no old backup: what happened to my data?

Did you upgrade install Yosemite?

We see that this can cause issues.. the old backups can still be there but if you used TM since the upgrade it can totally hide the old setup and files.

Is there something you need.. if so do a manual mount of the sparsebundle and get the files.

Or simply wait.. TM takes a long time to reindex the backup.. many hours.. and if you do it over wireless many many more hours.

Whichever way you do it.. and whatever you did to make the old backups disappear.. mount the sparsebundle and see if they are in fact still there.

See Pondini for recovery info.

Q14-17 here.

http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html

Lion should be less problematic than Yosemite.. but that doesn't mean it is issue free.

Check yourself manually.. as per pondini instructions.. and you will see another post here..

I cannot retrieve my files from Time Capsule

I have put a lot of screenshots into my second post.

Open the sparsebundle in finder.. and check what dates are in it.

It should look like this. (only the dates will be this month and last month).

If you don't have it.. I know what has happened.. TM corrupted itself and then wiped the backup and started over.. you probably said yes to a little box that jumped up and you didn't actually notice what it said.. it may have even happened automagically without any input from you at all.

TM is not as reliable as it used to be.. that is simple fact.

Install the widget so you have some idea what the HECK TM is doing. See A1 here. http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html

I encourage anyone who wants reliable backups to ..

1. Use a disk plugged into your computer not network drives.. TM is far more reliable to local disk.

2. Use a disk cloner.. if you do 1. you may as well go the whole way and use Carbon Copy Cloner and make a bootable clone of your disk.. you can partition the drive and use TM as well.

A bootable clone has one huge advantage.. boot from it.. and you instantly know you have a working backup.

my tc indicates no old backup: what happened to my data?

Right-Click on the Time Machine icon on the dock

Click on Browse Other Time Machine Disks

Select a drive if it appears

Are your "old" backups there?

If not, you may have have seen something like this appear recently:

If so, Time Machine detected that your "old" backups were corrupted, and it could not repair them, so it deleted them and started over.