Time Capsule "lost" backup?

I came back to my Mac today to a network error saying something to the effect that Time Machine couldn't find the Time Capsule. I didn't much attention to it since I assumed it was due to a power outage we had earlier in the day. I went ahead and told Time Machine to "Back Up Now" and went about my business. I just noticed that it was running for quite a while on this hour's backup and it turns out it's trying to make a new backup and cannot see the one it's been using for the past 2 months. Is there a way to force it to see the old one and reuse it? I don't think the power outage had anything to do with it because I'm fairly certain the first backup after power was restored went fine.

SkiAddict1 wrote:
The other day he went to get a file off the TC which was on the iMac. To his horror, he couldn't see any files at all for the iMac.
There are two things that he can do to investigate whether those backups exist:
1) If he mounts the Time Capsule disk, he should see one or more "sparsebundle" files, one for each Mac that has been backed up. If the iMac backups are there, he should be able to see the file containing those.
2) That first operation may verify that the iMac backups are there, but aren't the best way to access them. To do that, he should click-and-hold or control-click on the Time Machine icon in the Dock, then choose the option to "Browse Other Time Machine Disks". (He can also option-click on the Time Machine menu bar icon to expose that option.) One of the available options may be the iMac's backups. If he doesn't see anything useful by doing this, he should first mount the Time Capsule disk.

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