Time machine 10 day reminder is missing

Time machine 10 day reminder is missing. How do I turn that option in Yosemite back on? using Macbook pro

Yes, unfortunately, the Recovery HD doesn't get restored. That's been requested, but hasn't happened yet, obviously.
You have to reinstall Mountain Lion (that won't disturb anything else). If you saved the installer, just run it again. If not, and if your backups are on an external HD, there should be a copy of it there you can use to get a fresh copy of OSX and install it. See the green box in Using the Recovery HD.
Or, the CarbonCopyCloner app has a "disk center" that I believe can create one. I use CCC, but haven't done that myself, but have seen a number of posts saying it does work.

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Time machine taking days...

Hello! New in this of mac computers. I got my Macbook air new version, and the time machine is taking forever (now it is saying around 19 days, and evolving from 10 MB to 10 MB every half an hour. The hard drive is a Lacie with USB 3.0, and not sure why it is taking such a long time... Any advice? (There are like 50 gb in my hard drive, and I have not updated to Mountain Lion...)

If you have more than one user account, these instructions must be carried out as an administrator.
Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left.
Enter the word "Starting" (without the quotes) in the String Matching text field. You should now see log messages with the words "Starting * backup," where * represents any of the words "automatic," "manual," or "standard." Note the timestamp of the last such message. Clear the text field and scroll back in the log to that time. Post the messages timestamped from then until the end of the backup, or the end of the log if that's not clear.
Post the log text, please, not a screenshot. If there are runs of repeated messages, post only one example of each. Don't post many repetitions of the same message.
When posting a log extract, be selective. Don't post more than is requested.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into a message.
Some personal information, such as the names of your files, may be included — edit that out, too, but don’t remove the context.

Time machine takes days for first back-up

I have a new WD my passport HD 2 GB for the time machine back-up. The first back-up of about 500GB takes 130 days!!! What is wrong?

Hi Davis,
Thanks for your help. Here is the requested data:
23.11.12 06:18:35.730 com.apple.backupd[3216]: Starting manual backup
23.11.12 06:18:35.815 com.apple.backupd[3216]: Backing up to: /Volumes/Ohne Titel/Backups.backupdb
23.11.12 06:18:35.817 com.apple.backupd[3216]: Ownership is disabled on the backup destination volume. Enabling.
23.11.12 06:18:37.014 com.apple.backupd[3216]: Forcing deep traversal on source: "Macintosh HD" (mount: '/' fsUUID: XXXXXXX
23.11.12 06:18:37.000 kernel[0]: USBF: 26123.665 AppleUSBEHCI[0xffffff802ac09000]::Found a transaction past the completion deadline on bus 0x24, timing out! (Addr: 5, EP: 1)
23.11.12 06:18:39.000 kernel[0]: process 3220 set trusted
71
23.11.12 06:18:49.000 kernel[0]: revoking trust for process 3212
72
23.11.12 06:18:50.506 com.apple.backupd[3216]: Backup content size: 520.05 GB excluded items size: 29.28 GB for volume Macintosh HD
23.11.12 06:18:50.507 com.apple.backupd[3216]: Found 1750359 files (490.78 GB) needing backup
23.11.12 06:18:50.508 com.apple.backupd[3216]: 588.94 GB required (including padding), 2 TB available
23.11.12 06:18:50.518 com.apple.backupd[3216]: Waiting for index to be ready (100)
23.11.12 06:19:09.000 kernel[0]: /SourceCache/AppleFSCompression_kexts/AppleFSCompression-49/Compressors/Datales s/compressorType5Kext.c:532: Error: post_request error for /Volumes/Ohne Titel/Backups.backupdb/Stefan iMac/2012-11-23-061837.inProgress/308E0330-60A2-4965-B673-44365BDDDB82/Macintos h HD/.DocumentRevisions-V100/PerUID/501/1/com.apple.documentVersions/C8C61715-47F 4-4015-9720-F3A835348460.pdf: 35
23.11.12 06:19:09.000 kernel[0]: decmpfs.c:1339:decmpfs_read_compressed: decmpfs_fetch_uncompressed_data err -35
45
23.11.12 06:20:10.114 mdworker[3223]: Unable to talk to lsboxd
35
23.11.12 06:20:10.181 sandboxd[3225]: ([3223]) mdworker(3223) deny mach-lookup com.apple.ls.boxd
26
23.11.12 06:20:10.000 kernel[0]: Sandbox: sandboxd(3225) deny mach-lookup com.apple.coresymbolicationd
19
23.11.12 06:22:10.254 Locum[3233]: Connection with distnoted server was invalidated
5
23.11.12 06:24:00.162 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[171]: (com.avira.antivirus.ipm.ui[3245]) Exited with code: 5
23.11.12 06:24:32.474 WindowServer[107]: CGXDisableUpdate: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Finder" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
23.11.12 06:24:33.581 WindowServer[107]: reenable_update_for_connection: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Finder" after 2.11 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.00 seconds)
23.11.12 06:27:30.717 WindowServer[107]: Created shield window 0x184 for display 0x04272d40
23.11.12 06:27:30.729 WindowServer[107]: device_generate_desktop_screenshot: authw 0x0(0), shield 0x0(0)
23.11.12 06:27:30.741 WindowServer[107]: device_generate_lock_screen_screenshot: authw 0x0(0), shield 0x0(0)
23.11.12 06:32:48.450 WindowServer[107]: handle_will_sleep_auth_and_shield_windows: no lock state data
23.11.12 06:33:22.908 uxipm_loader[3304]: CFPreferences: user home directory for user kCFPreferencesCurrentUser at /Users/_avipm is unavailable. User domains will be volatile.
23.11.12 06:33:26.029 lsregister[3306]: CFPreferences: user home directory for user kCFPreferencesCurrentUser at /Users/_avipm is unavailable. User domains will be volatile.
23.11.12 06:34:00.717 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[171]: (com.avira.antivirus.ipm.ui[3316]) Exited with code: 5
23.11.12 06:37:29.558 mdworker32[3325]: CGSGetDisplayBounds: Invalid display 0x00000000
23.11.12 06:37:29.601 mdworker32[3325]: bootstrap_look_up2 failed with 0x44c
23.11.12 06:37:44.722 sandboxd[3340]: ([3325]) mdworker32(3325) deny mach-lookup com.apple.PowerManagement.control (import fstype:hfs fsflag:4809018 flags:240000005E diag:0 uti:org.openxmlformats.spreadsheetml.sheet plugin:/Library/Spotlight/Microsoft Office.mdimporter - find suspect file using: sudo mdutil -t 230)
23.11.12 06:39:51.975 Safari[308]: CGContextClipToRect: invalid context 0x0
23.11.12 06:41:57.447 WindowServer[107]: Created shield window 0x189 for display 0x04272d40
23.11.12 06:41:57.448 WindowServer[107]: device_generate_desktop_screenshot: authw 0x0(0), shield 0x0(0)
23.11.12 06:41:57.460 WindowServer[107]: device_generate_lock_screen_screenshot: authw 0x0(0), shield 0x0(0)
23.11.12 06:42:27.327 mdworker32[3364]: bootstrap_look_up2 failed with 0x44c
23.11.12 06:42:27.720 sandboxd[3387]: ([3364]) mdworker32(3364) deny mach-lookup com.apple.PowerManagement.control (import fstype:hfs fsflag:4809018 flags:240000005E diag:0 uti:com.microsoft.excel.xls plugin:/Library/Spotlight/Microsoft Office.mdimporter - find suspect file using: sudo mdutil -t 503)
23.11.12 06:42:37.371 WindowServer[107]: handle_will_sleep_auth_and_shield_windows: no lock state data
23.11.12 06:42:58.167 WebProcess[3392]: objc[3392]: Object 0x7fced0c1cab0 of class NSUserDefaults autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking - break on objc_autoreleaseNoPool() to debug
23.11.12 06:42:58.178 WebProcess[3392]: objc[3392]: Object 0x7fced0c1cab0 of class NSUserDefaults autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking - break on objc_autoreleaseNoPool() to debug
23.11.12 06:43:55.148 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[171]: (com.avira.antivirus.ipm.ui[3400]) Exited with code: 5
23.11.12 06:46:29.038 Dock[185]: no information back from LS about running process
23.11.12 06:47:17.115 fseventsd[46]: Events arrived for /Volumes/Ohne Titel after an unmount request! Re-initializing.
23.11.12 06:47:17.115 fseventsd[46]: creating a dls for /Volumes/Ohne Titel but it already has one...
23.11.12 06:47:17.125 com.apple.backupd[3216]: Stopping backup to allow backup destination disk to be unmounted or ejected.
23.11.12 06:47:24.908 com.apple.backupd[3216]: Copied 1873 files (288.9 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
23.11.12 06:47:26.133 com.apple.backupd[3216]: Backup canceled.

After restoring Time Machine Backup Recovery HD is missing...

Hi,
I startet with CMD + R intro Recovery HD, restored using my Time Machine Backup and now my Recovery HD is missing.
I do know that Time Machine doesn't back up the Recovery HD, but I did not think that a restore would delete anything more than the previous Macintosh HD, before it is beeing restored.
Apple needs to fix this. After any restore "Find my Mac" is useless without an existing Recovery HD.
Anyone can confirm this?

Yes, unfortunately, the Recovery HD doesn't get restored. That's been requested, but hasn't happened yet, obviously.
You have to reinstall Mountain Lion (that won't disturb anything else). If you saved the installer, just run it again. If not, and if your backups are on an external HD, there should be a copy of it there you can use to get a fresh copy of OSX and install it. See the green box in Using the Recovery HD.
Or, the CarbonCopyCloner app has a "disk center" that I believe can create one. I use CCC, but haven't done that myself, but have seen a number of posts saying it does work.

Time machine eventually complains about a missing time capsule

In my environment I have the following scenario.
     - Several apple computers are running ML in my network. All of these mashines are configured to use time mashine to do backups to the same set of time capsules.
     - I do use 3 (three) time capsules for backup. One is always stationary, while the 2 others are exchanged in a fixed interval (a couple of weeks). One
        time capsule is always at an external place. The plan is to have a a maximum data loss of a couple of weeks.
Everything is almost running fine. Every hour time mashine is doing backup up to a different disk. The missing time capsule is skipped. But over the sudden
sometimes a time mashine dialog appears, telling me that it could not backup for so many days because the backup disk is missing. The problem is,
there will be no further backup until this dialog is ackknowledged.
I have no idea what situation will trigger this event. I do fear that my unattended server will stop backing up and I do not realize it. Or is this triggered by
some application program which interacts with time mashine?
Any comments are welcome.

You are right, it is good to have diversive backup strategies. I do have others as well - but this is a diffrent story.
I am wondering: am I the only one who uses multiple TC's with one TM?
It is normal bahaviour, that if one backup disk could not be found, TM will use next one. The question is, what
causes TM to complain about a missing disk and stating that there was no backup for say 10 days. The last
successful backup is one hour old. In 99,9% it is working as expected, but once and a while this behavior is showing up.
I am curious to find out if it is a bug in TM or some combination with other programs.

HT201250 my Time Machine back up icon is missing form my finder side bar.

When i try to do a back up it says that "back up disk is not available" even though my external hard drive is connected via USB. I have also tried re-starting my computer and that didnt work. i also have tried connecting and resonnecting the USB, that didnt work either.

Launch Disk Utility. Is the backup volume listed? If so, is it mounted (the mount status is shown at the bottom of the window when the volume is selected)? If it's not mounted, can you mount it by clicking the Mount button in the toolbar?

Missing mailbox and time machine

Somehow I lost a mailbox from Mail. No problem I thought, I've got time machine. So I go to the Mail folder in my library then to the mailbox and start Time Machine. I highlight the mail box and ask time Machine to restore. What I get when I open Mail is an empty mailbox folder.
Since the mailbox was more important than my recent mail, I opened applications and restarted Time Machine. I went back a couple of days until my mailbox was present and asked Time Machine to restore the Mail program. It did but still with an empty mailbox folder for my missing mailbox.
So I tried again with Time Machine and actually opened my missing mailbox where I could see all the e-mail and open individual letters. It was there. I highlighted the email and Time Machine said click restore. I did and I don't think anything happened. At least my mailbox folder was still empty when I opened Mail.
Is there any way to restore a missing mailbox with Time Machine?

Actually I must have done something right. If I searched Mail for an email address I knew was in my missing mailbox, it could find it and actually open the letter, but it didn't tell me where it was.
In looking under the mailbox menu down at the bottom it says "rebuild." So I opened my empty mailbox and clicked on rebuild. Like magic, my mail reappeared.

Time Machine seems to wake up my external hard drive for no reason?

I'm not sure why it does this. It doesn't sync all the time as far as I know, it's really annoying and it's wearing the hard drive for no reason. Is there some way to stop it and only wake up when I need something off of it, or when Time Machine is backing up? It randomly goes to sleep and then wakes up again.
I have already set "put hard drives to sleep" in the System Preferences.
Also, since I believe it is Time Machine causing this issue, could I simply eject the partition that I use for backups / Time Machine? It's still plugged in then and if TM needs it, it will maybe scan the computer again and eventually find it?

Anon M wrote:
Well, I don't save anything to the hard drive. So it's kind of weird that it starts spinning.
I think it happens even if you bring up a save dialog.
Can I disconnect it from Time Machine from time to time? Like, does it matter if I connect the drive only once a day or so to the Mac, or does it have to be permanently connected to be able to work with TM?
Sure. Time Machine will even remind you after 10 days of not backing up.
Some people have installed scripts to ping external drives to keep them spinning. It doesn't hurt the drive any.

Recovering deleted photos with Time Machine

Hi,
I've recently deleted some photos I had in Aperture (deleted from the event and then cleared the recylcing bin). I do however have and run Time Machine but I can't seem to get hold of the lost files.
Essentially all I need to know is where is the "trash" folder in the Aperture directory?
If it helps to explain the issue, here is the sequence of events:
1) Downloaded photos into Aperture
2) Moved some photos into the trash bin
3) *Time Machine Syncs"
4) I empty trash
When I run time machine at the moment in the aperture library, I can only see the not-deleted photos as expected based on the above events.
Any ideas on how I can recover the photos if it's at all possible?
Thanks
Adam

There is no Trash bin in the Aperture library package, where you can access the image files. But until you actually empty Aperture's Trash, the image files will remain in the Masters folder inside the Aperture library, package exactly where they have been stored after importing. Aperture only indexes them differently in the database files. If you still know, the exact date when you imported the missing photos, ctrl click the Aperture Library package in the Finder, use "Show Package Contents" and open the "Masters" folder. Open the subfolder for the year of the import, the month, the day:
With this Finder window selected, enter Time Machine and look for the missing photos in that folder.
If you emptied Aperture's trash, the files will have been moved to the Trash on the Desktop. Look for it there in your Backup.

How can i recover mail from time machine

i upgraded from lion to mountain lion few month ago. i have been backingup to time machine since day one.
last week, formatted my mac, i tried to recover my mail by using time machine, it did not show up any date for recovery.
it there a way to import back these mail? or is there a way to recover it?

Although you can restore messages from a Time Machine snapshot within the Mail application, it generally won't work with messages that were saved by an older version of Mail. In that case, you have to use an alternative method.
Triple-click the line below to select it:
~/Library/Mail/V2
Right-click or control-click the highlighted line and select
Services ▹ Reveal
from the contextual menu.* A Finder window should open with a folder selected. Inside that folder are subfolders representing your Mail accounts. The names refer to the email addresses you use. Decide which ones you want to restore messages from.
Enter Time Machine and scroll back to the snapshot you want. Select the account folders you want and then select Restore ... to... from the action menu (gear icon) in the toolbar of the snapshot window. Restore the folders to the Desktop, not to their original location.
From the Mail menu bar, select
File ▹ Import Mailboxes...
Import from the mailboxes in the folders you restored to the Desktop. The imported messages will appear in a new mailbox. Move the ones you want to keep wherever you like and delete the rest. Then delete the folders on the Desktop.
*If you don't see the contextual menu item, copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C). In the Finder, select
Go ▹ Go to Folder...
from the menu bar, paste into the box that opens (command-V). You won't see what you pasted because a line break is included. Press return.

The Time Machine backup of my photos is a lower quality than the originals?

I recently had some problems with my mac and ended up deleting my iPhoto library. Fortunately, I had a Time Machine backup that was only missing a few months. When I recovered the iPhoto Library from my Time Machine and loaded it into iPhoto, I realized that the pictures are in a lower quality (almost like thumbnails of the originals). Is there something I may have done wrong, or is there anything I can do to get my original photos back?
Any help is greatly appreciated...

Try right clicking on the iPhoto Library and "show package contents" it's really a folder and inside should be a folder called Originals.
Copy this folder out onto the desktop and then delete the iPhoto Library, then restart iPhoto and reimport the Originals.

Third external drive that won't show up! OS or time machine issues?

Hi,
This is driving me crazy...
This is my third seagate drive manifesting similar issues which leads me to believe maybe there is an issue not with the drive, but with my operating system (maybe Time Machine)??
My original extenral drive (set up to be backed up using time machine) one day would no longer show up in finder. (My macbook pro still under warranty; I went to Apple genuises. Drive at first took a while to power up, then next try didn't. It wouldn't "mount," they showed me in Disk Utility. They said problem was the drive. I returned drive and got a "new" refurbished replacement as I was still under seagate warranty also.
Then same thing with next one, showed up at first to do back-ups then intermittently--and then, it, too wouldn't even power up. Returned that one.
NOW I HAVE A REFURBISHED REPLACEMENT THAT DID ONE SUCCESSFUL BACKUP AND TODAY, PLUGGED IN AS USUAL, WILL NEITHER POWER UP NOR SHOW UP IN FINDER. (I have tried numerous outlets, btw).
I won't go into the whole story, but in case it's relevant: I have had major issues for over a year with Time Machine (since updating to Mountain Lion and changing my internal HD). Time Machine can't find my time capsule disk. There were other system failure problems with my computer which after my HD was wiped out TWICE have not recurred; nor were they ever clearly diagnosed.
Could the above string of issues be a software problem with Time Machine (or my operating system) causing all the rest of the issues???
I was about to box up the second Seagate and return it! Now the identical problem showing itself with the new one!!! What to do?? (Because TC not being found and this disk not showing, I have no backups I can rely on at the moment... Makes me very nervous. (I am going to look into clones etc. but want option for successful TM backup as well.
Thanks!

just want to add, that these are Seagate drives for MAC: Free Agent GoFlex 2 TB.
I have disconnected. Rebooted computer, reconnected. To no avail.
Have checked with firewire and power cords from second and new drive in varying combinations. No powering up. no showing up in Finder. (I did install the software that came with the new drive.
Also, when I just tried to back up via TM it looked for the seagate that I have just erased with a 3-pass security, preparing it to return to Seagate. I wanted to delete it from list of back up disks in TM and it does not give me option to do that.
So now, I have two big check marks, one next to Time Capsule and one next to the second seagate in TM preferences telling me that disks are not available. (Btw--after not finding Time Capsule for months, one day, TM was able to findTC and did a back up two weeks ago, then couldn't find it anymore after that.
Just wanted to give full picture.

Trying to transfer Time Machine to Computer

So I recently brought my MacBook Pro (Leopard 10.6.4) to the campus computer store because it was freezing nonstop. They told me they needed to "wipe" the hard drive to better ***** the problem. I had backed up my files w/ Time Machine that day so I figured it was fine. Now I have my computer back and I'm having trouble transferring all my Word documents, music, and photos to the computer because it is saying Time Machine is not a suitable basis for this program (something like that). How do I get all my stuff back onto this computer?

Can you describe exactly how you're trying to recover the files?
Here's the correct way: attach your Time Machine drive. Boot the Mac from the install DVD. From the Utilities menu, choose Restore System from Backup. Follow the prompts, choose your most recent backup, and proceed with the restore.
If that fails, please note down and post the exact message, and someone here should be able to help. You should also check out the Time Machine FAQ attached to this forum, which is extremely informative.
Matt

Time machine stalling

I last did a back-up to Time Machine 2 days ago. I did the previous back-up after moving my iPhoto/Aperture library to my external HDD. That back-up worked fine. Now suddenly, TM is stalling after about 100MB of a 1.7GB back-up. Yesterday I joined DropBox and I thought this might be the problem, but I'm not sure.
I tried repairing permissions on my main 2011 MBA SSD, and it fixed a few problems. I also tried to repair any problems on my external HDD, and my other external running TM, and Disk Utility said they both should be working fine.
After thinking DropBox might be the problem, I deleted the DropBox heading from my Favourites in my Finder. I don't know how to get that back now.    Another thing I tried was to remove the DropBox application from the list of what TM backs-up, but that didn't help.   There was slightly less total GB needing to be backed up after that, but TM still stalled out at roughly the same place.   They just made an update to DropBox a few days ago I believe so that's why I thought that might be the culprit.
I'm running Mavericks 10.9.4. Oh also my TM back-up drive is at 916GB out of 1TB of total space, so less than 10% free space. Could that be a problem? Is there any way to delete the volume and do a clean back up of everything. I don't need a back-up of every minute change in the last 2 and a half years of my files. I think I only have 400GB of files total.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Travis

These instructions must be carried out as an administrator. If you have only one user account, you are the administrator.
Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
The title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select
          SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ All Messages
from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select
          View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar at the top of the screen.
In the top right corner of the Console window, there's a search box labeled Filter. Initially the words "String Matching" are shown in that box. Enter the word "Starting" (without the quotes.) You should now see log messages with the words "Starting * backup," where * represents any of the words "automatic," "manual," or "standard."
Each message in the log begins with the date and time when it was entered. Note the timestamp of the last "Starting" message that corresponds to the beginning of an an abnormal backup. Now
CLEAR THE WORD "Starting" FROM THE TEXT FIELD
so that all messages are showing, and scroll back in the log to the time you noted. Select the messages timestamped from then until the end of the backup, or the end of the log if that's not clear. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.
☞ If all you see are messages that contain the word "Starting," you didn't clear the text field.
☞ The log contains a vast amount of information, almost all of which is irrelevant to solving any particular problem. When posting a log extract, be selective. Don't post more than is requested.
Please don't indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Please don't post screenshots of log messages—post the text.
☞ Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.

Can't find Time Machine backups

I just started using Time Machine three days ago, and it seemed to be working. Every hour the tool bar icon spins, a disk image appears on the desktop, and in Preferences it'll give me the last back up (currently 2:25 PM. When I enter Time Machine to look at my backup, I only see "Today" and only one pane. There are no versions of a file I've worked on and saved several times.
I'm using an OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro hooked up to an Airport Extreme. Now, when I initially set it on wifi, it was taking forever (only 10GB in 12 hours--it would've taken over six days to back up my modest 150GB drive). So I hooked the drive directly to my MacBook Pro via FireWIre 800, then switched back to wireless. I've searched he the site here and see that that may be the problem, but I'm not sure why, and can't find a way to fix it.
If I have to use only wireless or only FireWire, is there a way to speed up the initial transfer? Even 24 hours would be ok. If I can't speed it up. Can I interrupt the initial transfer to put it to sleep and move it to another part of the house?
Thanks in advance for any help!

jsvatek wrote:
Thanks, but I did try that. It does bring up another "disk" but still all I see are "Today" with no previous versions.
I select a specific and only the last one is there. Maybe I'm misunderstanding how Time Machine works, but shouldn't I be seeing three days (the amount of time since I started it) worth of backups?
As I said, I'm not very familiar with wireless backups; you may have to mount the sparse bundle, perhaps by dragging it into the sidebar of Disk Utility (in your Applications/Utilities folder).
I just looked at the hard drive in the FInder, and there is only something with a "sparsebundle" extension and a Shared folder with nothing in it. Both of which have a date modified of three days ago. Should there be something modified with the time of the last back-up?
That's odd. Assuming you have sufficient privileges, there should also be a "Backups.backupdb" folder from when you were doing the backups while directly connected.
Again, Time Machine Prefs tells me the last backup (to the disk I designated as the backup disk) was at 3:13 PM (ET)
One other possibility: check your System Name via System Preferences > Sharing. It it's blank, that's likely the problem. If it's over 26 characters long, trim it. If it has any unusual characters, try removing them. (An earlier version of Leopard wouldn't work with the name OSX assigns when you first set up, +<your name>'s Computer+ because of the quotation mark!)
If nothing else works, I'd suggest erasing the drive yet again and starting over. You might want to try the procedure of starting wirelessly, then connecting via the Ethernet cable, and/or take a look in the Airport and Time Capsule forums, hiding in the Digital Life section, at: http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=140

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