How to recover file from Time Machine ".purgeable" backup

Hello,
My TimeCapsule internal drive recently almost "died". Of course, it died a few days before I lost a very important file... When I enter TimeMachine in the Finder, I can go back in time a few days in the past, but not more, I can not access September backups for example, because the folders are just black rectangles instead of regular Finder folder windows, and the "time scale" on the right hand side is purple instead of white.
I had this warning message in AirPort Utility saying that to do a backup of my TC drive. Fortunately, I was able to do it on an external drive (I took several DAYS, but it finally completed). So now I have an "Archive AirPort Time Capsule_temp" folder on my external drive and inside it a <my computer name>.purgeable file. What to do with it now?
If I rename it with a ".sparsebundle" and I try to mount it, it fails ("image not recognized"). If I right click and select "Open bundle", I get a "bands" folder and inside it there a dozens of thousand of files named like "6392e". But it doesn't seem I can anything with them. Weird, because if I'm not right, before Mavericks, we could actually access "real" files with this method.
Any help would be really much appreciated.
Regards,
Mateo

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