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<blockquote data-quote="ManoaHi" data-source="post: 1600667" data-attributes="member: 264133"><p>Hopefully you can find the disk in the Finder. Go to the disk and drill down the directories in there. You should see the Backups.backupdb directory. Then look for a directory that has what looks like your computer name. In there, you should see directories that have a name that looks like a date and if you look closely a time. Is there or are there dates leading up to the "fail"? If so, your backup is to that date and time. </p><p></p><p>If you don't have anything there, you have no backups. Get important files off of that disk and then reformat the drive as Mac OS Extended (Jornaled) and then go into TIme Machine preferences and enable the disk (or partition) as one of the Time Machine volumes. Don't put any other files on that disk (or partition). I haven't seen anyone mention this before, but only Time Machine disks with no other files work fine. I've had a couple of ones that did fail, and each time I had other files on the disk/partition. I stopped doing that and everything works fine. Maybe TimeMachine gets confused and the DB gets messed up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ManoaHi, post: 1600667, member: 264133"] Hopefully you can find the disk in the Finder. Go to the disk and drill down the directories in there. You should see the Backups.backupdb directory. Then look for a directory that has what looks like your computer name. In there, you should see directories that have a name that looks like a date and if you look closely a time. Is there or are there dates leading up to the "fail"? If so, your backup is to that date and time. If you don't have anything there, you have no backups. Get important files off of that disk and then reformat the drive as Mac OS Extended (Jornaled) and then go into TIme Machine preferences and enable the disk (or partition) as one of the Time Machine volumes. Don't put any other files on that disk (or partition). I haven't seen anyone mention this before, but only Time Machine disks with no other files work fine. I've had a couple of ones that did fail, and each time I had other files on the disk/partition. I stopped doing that and everything works fine. Maybe TimeMachine gets confused and the DB gets messed up. [/QUOTE]
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