Latest backup date can't be found

Hello.
Since a few day, my Time Machine icon in the menubar won't give me the latest backup date ! I've the same problem in the system preferences. The system shows me only two dashes.
It was before I update to 10.5.3, and the update didn't do anything.
Thanks for your help.
J-B
PS : please excuse me for my bad English, I'm French.

Open your home folder, then double-click "Library". From there, double click "Preferences".
In there, there should be a com.apple.timemachine.plist file.
Move that to your Desktop as well as the one located at MacHD>Library>Preferences>com.apple.timemachine.plist (make SURE you know which is which.)
Then restart.
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MattLat wrote:
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