Can't see backups with sparsebundle on external hard drive?

This weekend I moved the external HDD I was using for Time Machine from my Macbook to my wife's iMac.
Previously the iMac was backing up via an AFP share on my MB. Now, Time Machine continues to back up to the iMac sparsebundle on the external HDD, but selecting "Enter Time Machine" shows no backups. If I mount the sparsebundle and then option+click the TM menu and Browse other time machine disks, I can successfully find the backups. I have tried turning TM off and redoing the configuration, but that doesn't seem to change anything. I haven't tried deleting the TimeMachine plist file, however this is probably my next step.
Has anyone else encountered this?

deleting the plist won't help. this is normal. remote backups are stored inside sparse bundles but directly attached ones are not. they are stored directly on the drive in a folder. there seems to be a bug (?) that when you move a remote backup to be directly attached TM continues backing up to it. however, when you try to enter TM interface the sparse bundle is not mounted because TM does not know it should be mounted it as it is normally not required. so, your options are
1. keep doing what you've been doing. then to enter TM you'll have to always mount the sparse bundle by hand first. or
2. reformat the drive and start backups from scratch. no sparse bundle will be created and you won't have this issue anymore.
if you really want to keep the old backups you can restore the sparse bundle to a separate partition on the external drive and use that partition as the TM drive.

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