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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1945962" data-attributes="member: 396914">OK then. Open Time Machine to where you can see the backups and see what backups are there. They are dated and you can open them up in the TM iinterface that looks like Finder.&nbsp; Or use Finder to navigate to the backup drive and look for the Folder in which her TM backups are stored and look at the names of the backups. They will/should be named by the date/time of the backup. Here is what my backup drive shows for backups:[ATTACH=full]39791[/ATTACH]Note that the backups are hourly for 24 hours, then the shift to one per day and eventually only one per week is kept. But if TM is workiing properly, there should be a backup for each hour of the last 24. BE CAREFUL: Don't mess with the backups in Finder, just look at them as individual folders. These are snapshots of her system as it existed at the time of the backup. If one is missing in the sequence of hours, then that one had issues. But if there is one current, that is, within the last hour, TM is working as it should. All of that is stated with the presumption that TM is at the default interval for backups, which is one hour.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1945962, member: 396914"] OK then. Open Time Machine to where you can see the backups and see what backups are there. They are dated and you can open them up in the TM iinterface that looks like Finder. Or use Finder to navigate to the backup drive and look for the Folder in which her TM backups are stored and look at the names of the backups. They will/should be named by the date/time of the backup. Here is what my backup drive shows for backups: [ATTACH type="full"]39791[/ATTACH] Note that the backups are hourly for 24 hours, then the shift to one per day and eventually only one per week is kept. But if TM is workiing properly, there should be a backup for each hour of the last 24. BE CAREFUL: Don't mess with the backups in Finder, just look at them as individual folders. These are snapshots of her system as it existed at the time of the backup. If one is missing in the sequence of hours, then that one had issues. But if there is one current, that is, within the last hour, TM is working as it should. All of that is stated with the presumption that TM is at the default interval for backups, which is one hour. [/QUOTE]

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