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Time Machine is one of the most advertised features of Leopard, I really like it, but honestly, I didn't use at all last month, but I'm not complaining about that. I'm sure that there are some people out there that are really taking advantage of it.
(This segment is not that much related to the actual problem)
Here's the thing: I was watching a podcast the other day about Time Machine, and the guy suggested excluding the virtual machine folder if you have one, and I happen to have one, so I went to the Time Machine preferences and did that.
I started thinking that really should take advantage of Time Machine, so I decided to try it out. I went to the downloads folder, and clicked The TM button. It did the whole transition thing (I mean going from desktop to TM mode). Then I tried clicking the arrows... nothing was happening, I tried going back in time by clicking the date manually... nothing. It was acting like there wasn't any backup folders or something, even though I have at least three weeks worth of backups on my External HD.
I tried different folders, restarting, ejecting and mounting the HD, permissions... Nothing. Here's how the TM mode looks like when I try to restore (notice the timeline):
And this one to show you past backups on the HD:
P.S. I have a LaCie 500GB USB HD.
(This segment is not that much related to the actual problem)
Here's the thing: I was watching a podcast the other day about Time Machine, and the guy suggested excluding the virtual machine folder if you have one, and I happen to have one, so I went to the Time Machine preferences and did that.
I started thinking that really should take advantage of Time Machine, so I decided to try it out. I went to the downloads folder, and clicked The TM button. It did the whole transition thing (I mean going from desktop to TM mode). Then I tried clicking the arrows... nothing was happening, I tried going back in time by clicking the date manually... nothing. It was acting like there wasn't any backup folders or something, even though I have at least three weeks worth of backups on my External HD.
I tried different folders, restarting, ejecting and mounting the HD, permissions... Nothing. Here's how the TM mode looks like when I try to restore (notice the timeline):
And this one to show you past backups on the HD:
P.S. I have a LaCie 500GB USB HD.