Can't View Backups Within Time Machine

After 8 months of flawless operation Time Machine give an error backing up. I deleted the ".InProgress" and "Latest" files within the .backupsdb file. After this Time Machine did a proper backup - it showed up within the .backupsdb file. When I now enter time machine I don't see the 8 months of backups - only todays backup.
Is there anything I can do to get TM to show the full range of backups?

yeeeoww wrote:
After 8 months of flawless operation Time Machine give an error backing up. I deleted the ".InProgress" and "Latest" files within the .backupsdb file.
That's not good. You can corrupt your backups that way. Time Machine can recover from a partial backup all by itself. And the "latest," which is an alias, not a file, is what makes the +Today / Now+ panel. I think TM will re-create it for you.
Do a +Repair Disk+ (not permissions) on your TM drive via Disk Utility (in your Applications/Utilities folder).
If you have a problem with TM, start with the Time Machine - Troubleshooting post at the top of this forum.
After this Time Machine did a proper backup - it showed up within the .backupsdb file. When I now enter time machine I don't see the 8 months of backups - only todays backup.
Is there anything I can do to get TM to show the full range of backups?
See item #E2 in the Troubleshooting post.

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