How do you access a backup of a time capsule that was made to an external drive?, How does one access a backup of a time capsule that was made to an external drive?

Back in Oct my TC was poppping an error that it was full. Research in here told me the solution was to backup the TC to an external HD and wipe it. I now need something off that old backup and don't know how to mount it to retrieve the documents.
I tried to mount it by selecting the EX HD in the TM software however it says the drive is not in a readable format.
At a loss on what to do.
Thanks in advance for the help.

mxracer700 wrote:
I get a ton of greyed out bars (no dates) but only a couple (one date) at the bottom is clickable. It appears to me at least there are a lot of backup windows I just can't access. The recent ones that I can access work fine and they are TODAY and Sept 6 which was likely the day I did the achive.
If you see actual dates there, that you can't access, it means that whatever's in the Finder window wasn't included in that backup.   See the pink box in #15A of Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions.
But if they're just items on a "placeholder" scale, there aren't any other recognizable backups.
As you detail I can mount the ext hd in finder and in the sidebar I get an image "Time Machine Backups" which gives me a folder "backups.backupdb" which has a folder for my mac mini and then only three folders. One is the Sept 6 date, on is 'in-progress' and the third is 'latest'. Going into the Sept 6 gives me access to the same data as going in via TM.
That sounds like you only have the 1 completed backup, of September 6.  The "Latest" item is simply an alias to the most recent completed backup. 
Before going any farther, try to Repair the backups, per #A5 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting. Use the procedure for an external disk connected to a Time Capsule.
If that doesn't help, it sounds like Time Machine had deleted all previous backups trying to make room for a (very large) new one.  See the pink box in #C4 ofTime Machine - Troubleshooting for details.
The .inProgress package is the remains of one or more failed or cancelled backups.  You can't use Time Machine to get at it, and there's no telling what's inside it, but it's not a complete backup.
You may be able to find some things in it and copy them, but you may have difficulty with permissions, locked files, etc.
It looks like a file, but is actually a special kind of folder that's treated like a single object for most purposes. 
Select it, then right-click it and select the Show Package Contents option.  There may be one or more folders with gibberish names, containing partial backups.  Navigate through the folder structure to see what you can find.  That will be "hit and miss," and the results will be unpredictable.

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