Can't see Backups

I am having trouble seeing my backups on the usb drive.
In the past if I opened R+R then clicked view backups I would see "no backups found"
I could trick it by starting the restore process, selecting usb drive (up they come), then backing out.
From there I could make a named backup, and I wouldn't be forced into the "primary" backup save.
My problem now is that I can see all the backups in "view backups", but when I start the restore process and select the usb drive nothing registers. I can't select a backup to restore to, and thus can't "continue".
I am running R+R 4.20, and I have both backed up and restored sucessfully in the past.
But I know that If I now can't see the backups in the R+R Restore sequence, then i will be unable to restore if necessary.
Thanks for anyone who can offer help

To tie a ribbin on this, here's the setting that has caused invisible backups on a few machines. A friend's T61 showed no backups until he set this to max.
I'm not saying this is what is causing your issues. In the cases I've seen, the backups were invisible in R&R during a backup operation, not a restore.
Anyway, for posterity, here it is.
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Go to Solution.

Thanks for being so patient with me.
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To my dismay both of my gmail accounts through the mail client will only show me emails from the last 30 days. I went to check gmail through Safari and the same story, I'm locked out of emails from before the last 30 days. This is not only on my Mac, but also on my iPad and iPhone.
I attempted to go into Time Machine and do a restore, but the same thing is happening and I'm pretty sure it shouldn't be. For some reason even when Time Machine pulls up my email backups I can see stuff from every year but 2013 and the beginning of 2014. It starts populating the backup to show me my emails, but nothing appears and I know those emails have to exist somewhere.
Does anyone know if this is some kind of code error that caused this, or if there is anyway to get around it? Having an entire year's worth of emails missing is really problematic for me as you can expect. Does anyone know how to remedy this?

Time Machine - Troubleshooting E3. I can't see backups for a disk/partition that's no longer connected

Can not see historical data in Time Machine backup

Hi folks
First my setup:
   MBP Late2012
   Samsung Evo 840 SSD
   external USB 3.0 1TB as TimeMachine HD
   Mac OS X Mavericks
Now my problem.
After updating to Mavericks I've made a full backup with Time Machine.
Then I swapped the former 500TB HDD to the Samsung Evo 840 500TB.
A clean setup of Mavericks follows.
After that I restored the Backup from Time Machine.
Everything ok. Til now.
Because everthing works fine in the past, I did not control the Time Machine.
Today I wanna restore a File from my "Pictures" folder.
So I opened Time Machine.
Oops.
There I can only see the latest run.
Also in the timeline on the right side the only entries are TODAY and NOW.
I can not scroll into the past.
All windows behind the current window have a black titlebar.
In Mountain lion the titlebars are grey if there is data available
and the title contains the date of the backup.
What is the problem?
Is there a bug?
Did I something wrong?
Thanx in adv.
      Stoiker

Hi masong517
What a treasure trove of hints and solutions.
I didn't know this page.
But you are right with "E2".
This solved my problem.
Thank you very much.

How can I see a calendar item that was in my backup

I did a full backup at home of my 8330 with BB Desktop Software a week ago.
But I accidentally left my phone in the office and can't retrieve it until Monday.
The data I need is in one calendar entry in the backup. How can I see it? I don't own Outlook or Office.
I can't figure out where to start.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Not easily, as the backups are intended to restore to the BlackBerry device, not be viewed and/or edited on the PC.
Try to find ABC Amber IPD Converter software for your PC. It can read your backup IPD files and save to Excel or another PC file format.
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Can't see old backups on Time Machine

Originally, I noticed the issue when I went to do a backup and it failed because there was not enough space on the disk. Then I went to see if I could delete old backups. In Time Machine it shows today and one other backup, 6 days ago. It should be doing backups regularly. I have had the iMac and my external drive for years. I did update to Mavericks OS several months ago. That is the only change I can think of. I have seen older backups and used them before now. Not sure why I can't see them anymore and why it says my disk is full. Why isn't it deleting the old backups if it's full?
So I guess I have three main questions:
1 Why can't I see the old backups?
2 Why aren't the old files being deleted if it's full?
3 How can it be full if there is only one backup?
Thanks

These instructions must be carried out as an administrator. If you have only one user account, you are the administrator.
Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
The title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select
SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ All Messages
from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar at the top of the screen.
In the top right corner of the Console window, there's a search box labeled Filter. Initially the words "String Matching" are shown in that box. Enter the word "Starting" (without the quotes.) You should now see log messages with the words "Starting * backup," where * represents any of the words "automatic," "manual," or "standard."
Each message in the log begins with the date and time when it was entered. Note the timestamp of the last "Starting" message that corresponds to the beginning of an an abnormal backup. Now
CLEAR THE WORD "Starting" FROM THE TEXT FIELD
so that all messages are showing, and scroll back in the log to the time you noted. Select the messages timestamped from then until the end of the backup, or the end of the log if that's not clear. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.
☞ If all you see are messages that contain the word "Starting," you didn't clear the text field.
If there are runs of repeated messages, post only one example of each. Don't post many repetitions of the same message.
☞ The log contains a vast amount of information, almost all of which is irrelevant to solving any particular problem. When posting a log extract, be selective. Don't post more than is requested.
Please don't indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Please don't post screenshots of log messages—post the text.
☞ Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.

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