I was copying a movie project to my hard drive from and external and I received a notice that it wasunable to do so due to my time machine being too full. Now when going to time machine, I am only able to go back in time 3 days?? Why? JMB

Not sure where my old backs up went, in time machine. I am only now able to see 3 days ago? Did it delete any old stuff after it gave me a message when I was attempting to download a movie project to my hard drive, and it told me that I was out of space? Is there any way now to go back in time? JMB

See Pondini's TM FAQs for starters.

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