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Time machine won't let me access backup more than 24 ours ago.

Time machine won't let me access backups more than 24 ours ago but shows months of backups. I have backups from January but can only access a files if they've been backed up less than 24 hours ago. It's a rolling 24 hours.

I can't find any articles or questions that might give me clue how to fit this. I ran first aid on the backup drive. No error.

Any ideas? I appreciate any help.

Jim

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

Posted on Mar 15, 2018 7:08 PM

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