Time capsule name change, now I can't find my old backups

Hi to all,
I changed the name of my wifi network on my time capsule and while I was at it, I also changed the name of the Time Capsule itself.
Then, after upgrading from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion I noticed that Time machine could not find the back up disk.
When I go to Time Machine I can select the new disk, but it shows oldest backup: none. Uh-oh!
How do I properly reconnect to my Time Capsule without:
1. doing a full new backup?
2. losing all my old backups?
One more question, is it possible to see my old Snow Leopard backups after my ML upgrade, or are they no longer accesible?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thank You,
Dean

Deano8000 wrote:
When I go to Time Machine I can select the new disk, but it shows oldest backup: none.
Scary looking, but most likely, not a problem. Time Machine just hasn't bothered to look at the backups so it can display that. See #B3 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting.
How do I properly reconnect to my Time Capsule without:
     1. doing a full new backup?
     2. losing all my old backups?
You probably aren't really disconnected. Try Entering Time Machine -- if you see your backups in the timeline on the right, everything's cool.
One more question, is it possible to see my old Snow Leopard backups after my ML upgrade
Yes.   If you just did the simple upgrade, the backups will all be visible, just as before. If you erased your HD and installed ML, until the next backup, the old backups will appear to be from a different disk, that's no longer attached. You can see them via the procedure in #E3 of the same link.
If you erased, depending on how you put your data back, Time Machine may automatically "associate" the erased disk with the old backups. If it doesn't, you can tell it to, per #B6 in the same link (the pink box).

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