Cannot see my BackUps

Well, at first I have to say: I setup TimeMachine with the leopard-beta. As it worked fine, I decided to use it even with the final release. And yes, TimeMachine is making hurly BackUps to that "old" sparse-image (as I initiated it via AirPort).
I learned, that network backups are not supported in the final release, so I plugged my Disk directly into my MBP.
So far so god, TM is backing up my files... BUT I cannot see the BackUps through the interface. I checked the name of my MBP, no difference, I opened the sparse - image, there are all the BackUps since I started in September.
How can I make them visible in my TM- Interface? I don't want to loose them
Greetings
SK
Message was edited by: Sven Koesling well, I cannot correct the title, sry

Well, finally I found a solution:
1. I managed to make the mounted backup image visible: http://www.pinkmutant.com/articles/invisible.html (Hint from First Magus)
2. Changed the name of my Mac to a name without blanks etc. (e.g: MyCompi).
3. Changed the name of the mounted volume to the new name (e.g.: Backup of MyCompi)
4. Changed the name of the image file to that new name (MyCompi_XXX.sparsebundle where XXX is Your MacAdress).
5. Finally right-clicked on the TM-Icon in the Dock while the image was mounted and chose "search other TM Volumes". Now I was able to choose the mounted image.
Everything works fine.
Greetings
SK

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Hi,
I have decided to move my external USB disk from the Airport Extreme USB port to my computer USB port to speed up backups and restores.
Unfortunately it seems that I cannot see anymore previous backups in the disk using TM.
The disk was accessed through the network and it was setup to have user level access to it: each user have his folder on the disk.
So, what I have done is to move back the disk to my computer, I have run disk utility to check and fix the disk since when the drive is attached to the AE with user privileges, it will report errors once you connect back to the computer. Once that permission errors were addressed, I have moved the time machine backup to the disk root and I have told TM to use this new disk as backup location.
Then I have made a new backup to the disk and it seems that TM was able to detect the previous backups because it has added only few GB to the backup.
Then I have moved to a random folder were I have made changes, and I have started TM: when I do that, TM window will switch me back to "MyComputer" where I can see all drives.
I can move around but I am unable to move back in time, like there are no other backups.
TM backup file is about 140 GB and I can fully access it by using finder: I see that all previous data is there, but TM cannot see it.
I have not changed computer name,
I have tried to use the TM option to "open other TM disks" but It doesn't show any other disk in the select window.
Does anybody know what is happening and how I can try to fix?
thanks!

Thanks for the replies,
I would like to move from a wired network TM backup to a local firewire/USB backup.
So the first error I have made is to have deleted the user directory in the Airport Extreme external USB disk: I have moved the TM sparse bundle file to the new location but I didn't noticed that other hidden files were there.
Second, I was unable to browse the older TM backups using TM and it seems that I cannot "browse other TM backups" using such TM option because the window were not showing me any drive.
I have then realized that I have to mount the sparse bundle to see it in such TM option: then it seems to work perfectly.
So there is no need for me to find a solution to use again the same backup with the local disk: if I need something in future I will use the TM option to browse other backups and I think I will be able to recover any file from there. May be I cannot recover mails in this way.
I think it is also possible to fix by using the procedure listed in the previous link: I didn't try just because I don't want to spend more time on this issue and because I have not enough free space on other drives... but...
...it should be enought to:
1- connect a new drive to the computer;
2- mount the old TM sparse bundle image;
3- use SuperDuper to copy all contents of mounted sparse bundle image into the new attached drive;
contents of the sparse bundle image seems to be equal to the structure and names used by a new fresh backup on a local USB disk, so I suppose that it could work... if someone wants to try a tell if it is so... thanks!

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I had to change my router and with it all network settings. As a result I could not "see" my time capsule in airport. So I reset it.
Airport could then see it. I re-set it up again with new network details etc.
So now if I look at the time machine backup it can see all my previous backups. BUT when I enter the utility to continue with backups, it refuses to let me use my "previous drive" (original backups) and asks me to use a "new drive" that it has set up - which says no existing backups on it.
So how do I make it see both drives as being the same thing? Or must I start backups all over again?

Did you reset Time Machine?
A4 here. http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
Are you seeing double instance of the TC in finder? You need to delete the older and now no longer existant TC so only the TC with the new name is available.
Pondini has lots more info if you keep running into trouble..
You should not need to start over.. TM should be able to pickup the old backups once you connect to the TC.. but you do sometimes need to force it to do that.

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I'm running the latest version of iTunes with my iPhone 4. Until recently (but I"m not sure when), I was able to back up and restore fine. However there is now a problem. Please help as I've spent hours chasing leads on Google and nothing has worked!
Notes. This is on my iMac - my Windows Laptop doesn't have this problem, I checked. But I hardly ever use that machine, and need it to be working on my Mac really.
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When I hit back up in iTunes, it backs up ok. The files are there in the proper folder in MobileSync and there doesnt appear to be a problem. But (its as if) iTunes cannot see the backup. The backup is not listed under Devices in preferences, in fact nothing is. Plus on Summary Page, is says "Last backed up to this computer: Unknown" (Although I can see the last back up there in the folder). I also tried clicking "Restore Backup" on the Summary Page and did a right click on iPhone in devices and selected "Restore from backup". However, when I do either of these, nothing happens and I mean nothing.
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Any ideas would be great, am willing to try anything!
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Found this article
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If you find that the automatic iPhone back up is not working with iTunes it doesn't necessarily mean that iTunes could not back up your iPhone. First, you need to make sure that there are no internal software problems, iPhone apps, like firewalls, that are going to interfere with iTunes functions. Go ahead and locate your iPhone under the Devices heading in iTunes and right click it. From the right click menu select Back Up, which should initialize it. This is also the first option you should take if you get a "backup session failed" message when trying to back up the iPhone.
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I've seen other posts about time capsule problems and most talk about wireless dropout and loss of internet connectivity. My situation is almost the reverse:
Full airport strength in menu bar. Full access to internet sites on at least one computer. Cannot see Time Capsule via Airport Utility or in Finder on any computer. Time Machine backups fail (marked as Delayed in menu bar item).
If I reboot (via unplugging) the Time Capsule, it shows up again in Airport Utility and backups are successful. This has happened three times now. I think the first time was prior to upgrading the firmware. The second two times were after the Time Capsule firmware upgrade. In the second two instances, it looks like the backups run for about 12-13 hours, every hour. No problems. Then, they drop out. Yesterday, it ran from 8:30 AM until 9 PM.
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Most people just use the TC password..
I have done very little with user accounts on the TC.. it seems fundamentally wrong headed to me.. If you have a domain controller with everyone using accounts to login that is fine.. and the TC would then exist in connection to the domain controller.. but it is a home device and there is no function to all that.
What will happen if you change over to standard security or even turn on the guest account I am too scared to suggest as you may not easily get connection back again.. The TC certainly displays a warning going to accounts.. I am not sure of warnings going away from accounts.
If you didn't setup the TC, do you have admin access to it??
Perhaps I am assuming too much before you tell me everything. But I may suggest things you don't want to try.. unfortunately I cannot say this will work.. the issue is widespread across the Mountain Lion TC combo and I have yet to see Apple suggest a solution or even fess up there is a problem. Daily reboots are just simply now a part of the scene for all windows and Mac users.
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How do I get my pictures from photo vault to show again? Recently restored my phone and the backup saved the app. The app says 200 pictures etc. in the folder but I cannot see them.

I have a new iphone but I did a itunes restore backup. Basically all my apps, pictures, and text messages are back. The photo vault app says I still have the pictures but I literally cannot see them. It is a white screen but I can "select" a photo (a green check mark shows) when I choose a picture, yet it is just a white screen. I try to send it or copy it and I cannot find it.

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Sorry for short novel I am writing. I just wanted to cover as much backround as possible.
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