Is my time machine working?

have a 250 gig USB external hard drive i've dedicated to TM. i use it infrequently. thought that it was only supposed to back up what it didn't on the last backup, but it seems to back up everything, everytime. opened up the external, looked for my iphoto library (the iphoto icon is there under applications), just to make sure that my stuff was in there and got this: "unexpected error occured - error code 10657" operation could not be completed.
so... am i doing something wrong? is my stuff in there? or am i just not looking in the correct spot?
any insight would be much appreciated.
thanks.

tacomatown wrote:
have a 250 gig USB external hard drive i've dedicated to TM. i use it infrequently.
You really should let it do it's hourly backups.
thought that it was only supposed to back up what it didn't on the last backup, but it seems to back up everything, everytime.
If you let it back up infrequently (somewhat over 10 days), then yes, that's exactly what it will do.
opened up the external, looked for my iphoto library (the iphoto icon is there under applications), just to make sure that my stuff was in there and got this: "unexpected error occured - error code 10657" operation could not be completed.
I assume you mean you used the Finder?
so... am i doing something wrong?
Yes. Use the TM interface. Click the TM icon in your menubar and select "Enter Time Machine," or click the TM icon in the dock.
For basic info on TM, start here: http://www.apple.com/findouthow/mac/#tutorial=leopardtimemachine
and here: http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/timemachine.html
and here: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1964018

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