Time Machine Cannot Recover Grey Items!!
Hi,
I need to retrieve some files from my Time Machine.
By surfing in the past, from about one month ahead, I can see what I had in the folder i was looking for but the subfolders are grey colored and cannot be accessed or recovered!!
Please help
In the Finder, open the folder containing the items you want to restore. Then enter Time Machine.
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5/29/14 3:02:47.124 PM com.apple.backupd[220]: Failed to eject volume /Volumes/TimeMachine (FSVolumeRefNum: -106; status: -47; dissenting pid: 0)
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