Time Machine is locked

I've opened my computer this morning and had a warning that Time Machine was locked. My Computer's name also changed, a (2) been added to the name. Everything was normal last night. Time Machine has its own partition on a Drobo machine, and the computer was shut down normally.
Any idea how to reopen Time Machine?

First mistake. That program is rubbish and more than often destructive.
ive using this program with no problem for Long time , but know i will contakt the support for this situation.
What have you tried? This is important.
i used what Apple support wreit: OSX Recovery--> Disk Utillity -- repaer Disk and ...and
the Time Machine canot be repared !
i used the Terminal and RESTPASSWORD
i chang to Root ... Terminal : Sudo -U ...
i give this in Terminal sudo chflags -R nouchg, nouappnd .. and ,,, and
i googeld and find many solutions for Lion but not Mountain Lion
i instailled the neu Compy update 10.8.2 also
All thies thing dosnot works .... Bad Bad
What Seagate Utility Program?
i used Seagata Dashboard 2 Programm
the disk " FREE AGENT" ist OK

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Thanks for the follow up.
I think that we need to fine tune the exchange of information.
When you mentioned "capture", my first impression was that you were doing a DV and HDV capture firewire into the Premiere Elements Capture Window.
Premiere Elements 12 Capture WIndow.
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(I have done a run through with my camera, and this path can do both. I left the Save Location as "Pictures" and did not run into any "Insert Disc" messages.
3. Again, if I am guessing correctly on this one (based on your "automatically Organizer opening", what happens if you transfer from camera to computer hard drive location, perhaps a folder on the computer desktop?
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johnt2626 wrote:
When I open the actual drive I can see a "Back-ups" folder for the iMac but only an image for the MacBook.
Are you backing up the MBA to the drive via a wireless (afp:) connection to the iMac?
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Does the Back-up appear to be completing to quickly? (I've had this problem a few times).
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That's not how you access Time Machine backups.
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Time Machine hosed me again. After several unsuccessful attempts to backup on my PowerMac G5 dual 2.33 Ghz, I was able to complete my first full backup to an external 2 gig DROBO (USB 2.0 interface). It took 20 hours to do 180 gigs.
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Okay Jeffery, I think I've found the solution, especially if you are seeing the "Unknown" user in your Get Info window's Sharing & Permissions setting for your drobo.
I had written earlier about my work-around for getting my drobo to work right after getting the "read-only" error from Time Machine. But unfortunately it was a temporary and temperamental fix. There were times then I had to eject the disk and launch Disk Utility to run a repair on the disk which would take more than half an hour on my drobo. But all the while my permissions had this "Unknown" user. Well I decided to "Go UNIX" and see if I could fix this problem once and for all.
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GeekApproach wrote:
Regardless of whether or not it's supported by Apple, it is a touted feature of the Airport Extreme.
Some Apple Store employees have told customers it will work, but it's not "touted" otherwise. It's not mentioned, either way, on the online AppleStore page (several of us have been trying to get that changed for years).
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That's the rub; they're not equal. The hardware inside the Airport Extreme is not the same as in the Time Capsule. Apple won't say, of course, but those who've taken them apart think the buffer in the Airport is too small, and/or the chips aren't capable of as much verification and recovery as the TC's innards. Thus the corruption problems, especially when there are WIFI or power issues.
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KTM450rider wrote:
Do I need to boot from the install DVD?
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