Time machine last 7 days

Both iMac and MBP backup to the TC via TM.
If I browse the TC I can see backup folders for the iMac going back to September 2011 when I bought the TC; back about six weeks for the MBP (as I zapped it and started again).
Anyway, using time machine I can only go back 7 days on the iMac. The list of dates is shown on the right side of the screen but I can't select them.
I don't fancy lugging a 27" iMac and TC into the apple store so hoping someone here may be able to shed some light on it?

i have the same problem and i have tried everything, i think mine will be going back to. let me know how you get on and if you manage to resolve the problem.
sorry this isn't of any help
regards steve

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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.

How to restore beyond time machine last full backup

I had a disk problem over the weekend and macbook pro wouldn't boot.
This has happened once before when it was within warranty period and I took it to the Genius bar and they ran diagnostics on the drive and said it was ok. Disk Warrior however was saying it had bad sectors and was failing but Apple disagreed. Apple then resinstalled the o/s and it was working ok and I restored everything back ok.
The same thing happened on Saturday and it wouldn't boot. Disk Utility said it couldn't be repaired and Disk Warrior said it was failing.
I did exactly what the Genius did and booted from internet recovery and went to restore from Time Capsule. During the restore process it listed only the full backups that had been taken so I picked the most recent but that was 6 days ago. It has completed the restore and Disk Utility says disk is fine.
So I'm asking two questions really.
1) Is there a way to restore beyond that last full backup and apply the incrementals to get it to the last hourly Time Capsule backup? When I go into Time Machine now it only has today in it and last hour so doesn't seem to be able to access previous incarnations of the backups.
2) Is there a way to run fsck or something on the disk to get any bad sectors as marked to not be used to prevent the problem from happening again?
I am toying with getting a solid state drive but not immediately.
My urgency is to get some files I was working on (Adobe illustrator) within the last week. They would have been on the incremental backup but everything is restored from that 31st March full backup.
Regards
Mike

Hi
But isn't that based on the fact that those backups are visible in Time Machine? All I see is today, not 2 days ago.
Mike

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 - Last backup failed - how i fixed it...

I woke up this morning to see that time machine had failed to backup. It has been a couple of days since installing 10.5.3, so I'm not sure if it's related to the update or if it's just the way that time machine works.
I ran diskwarrior, www.alsoft.com
and it came back with more file structure errors than i have ever seen on a hard drive! instead of tell you, here is an picture.
needless to say, once i replaced the directory time machine began working again, and it's way faster than it ever has been before.

I promise this thread is not an ad for diskwarrior
it has just saved my *** so many times that i wanted to share the information. apple disk utility does not do as good of a job at repairing HFS+.
here is a link to get latest version (4.1 for 10.5)...
http://thepiratebay.org/tor/4000433/DiskWarrior4.1___serial_for_Leopard10.5

Time Machine, last backup = none?!?

Hi,
Suddenly Time Machine wont recognize my backups anymore.... Yesterday I renamed the TM USB disk from "unknown" to "Time Machine".
When I wanted to make a new backup, Time Machine told me the latest backup was "None" so I quickly renamed the disk back to "unknown".
But no TM still wont display my last backup and now TM is making a full backup of ALL my files?!? (about 400GB)...
How can I fix this please?
Thank you!

Unfortunately you discovered that you cannot just simply "rename" your Time Machine volume without it "reformatting" the hard drive itself and erasing all the previous files. Which is what is has done. I am afraid at this point you must start from scratch acquring backup files to save for the future. The old backups are gone.
Hope this helps

Time Machine - Last Backup 4/5/2010

Hi,
TM has been working flawlessly, but just noticed recently that the icon for TM in the menu bar is spinning constantly, and the last backup was over two months ago. I back up to an external Maxtor 1TB drive, and there is about 500mb of free space left on that disk.
I manually started a back up about an hour ago today, and when i click on the spinning TM clock icon in the menu bar it says "backing up: 56 bytes of 13.37 gb".
Any ideas what is going on?

dnonnema wrote:
OK, repaired the internal disk. Re-verified the external and internal disks one more time. Once I start the TM backup process it scans about 700k items then starts the backup. Now, rather than getting stuck at about 35k, it is getting stuck at 103.4mb.
Leave it alone for a while. Sometimes when recovering from problems, especially a failed or cancelled backup, it will appear to stall.
Here are the results of the TM Buddy app while the backup is in process (line 3 looks to be problematic):
Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Main Disk Drive
Node requires deep traversal:/ reason:must scan subdirs|new event db|
Those are normal after booting from your Install disc and repairing the internal HD. See #A6 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum).
No pre-backup thinning needed: 15.38 GB requested (including padding), 397.80 GB available
Although it says it's going to back up about 12.5 GB (plus 20% for workspace, the "padding" in the message), it may seem to be proceeding at a snail's pace, then suddenly finish after backing-up much less than the 12.5 GB. This appears to be part of recovering the partial backup.
Go to dinner . . .

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.

Restore from Time Machine: "last complete backup" is not last backup

I'm trying to restore a backup to a new hard drive.
I did a last "Back Up Now" (around 5 PM) before beginning with the restore but when I go to start the restore it asks me to choose the last "complete" backup, and that was at 9 AM in the morning.
Am I right in assuming if I choose this "last complete backup" from 9 AM it won't restore all the files that have been edited between 9 AM and 5 PM?
If so, how do I get it create a complete backup, without doing a completely new (and time-consuming) complete backup?

I've seen this too. I'm not sure how to force a full backup. you could wait a couple of TM cycles and see if the backup you want becomes available on the list of full backups. You can also try forcing deep traversal (this will make backup time much longer but it's nowhere near as long as a complete new backup). To do that reboot in safe mode (hold shift at the chime till you see the login window). reboot normally and start a backup. It should do a deep traversal and maybe that will count as a complete 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.

Time Machine and Excel Missing File

Hello, this is my first posting here and I would appreciate some help.
An important Excel file of mine just disappeared both on my hard drive as well as on my Time Capsule backup, which is really puzzling me. Here are the facts:
1. I am using an iMac, running Mac OS X 10.5.8, with Excel:mac 2008 version 12.2.7. I religiously update both my OS and applications, so they are both up to date
2. Within Excel, if I go to File/Open Recent, there is a dropdown of recently opened files. The missing file is shown there but the "xlsx" tag is missing on that name, oddly. The other files (which are all still there) still have the "xls" or "xlsx" tag. When I click on that file, I get that error message that the file cannot be found
3. I then opened up my Time Machine on my Time Capsule and went scrolling back in time, and really weirdly, this file is missing in every version of backup. My Time Machine has the default backup of hourly for the past 24 hours, daily for the past month, and weekly before. I went into the folder where I kept the file all the way back to July (when I got the Time Capsule) and this file is missing from EACH backup. All other files are there.
I work on this file every day and I tend to keep it open on iMac. Usually when Excel crashes or something, it reloads with a recovered version but Excel hasn't crashed recently. I worked on this file as recently as yesterday and saved it in the same place where I've been saving it for the past several months.
OK, what's changed from yesterday to today? Last night when I updated my software there was an update from Microsoft for a security patch. Could it have detected a virus in this file and deleted this file from my hard drive and then from each and every backup in Time Machine?
The second change was that I selected "Back Up Now" for the first time on Time Machine last night after that patch. I usually had Time Machine run automatically, but while I was updating, I decided to do a forced backup. Could this forced backup have deleted all prior instances of this file if it was missing on my hard drive then?
This file is important to me, does anyone have a suggestion as to how I can retrieve it? I thought having Time Capsule would save this kind of headaches. I did a search within the backups, in case the file mysteriously "moved", but the file is just plain missing on all backups and on my hard drive. To make things worse, I Emptied my Trash last night, so I can't see if it is in there. Though, I didn't delete the file.
Thanks for any help!

NewMacxUser2010 wrote:
Hello, this is my first posting here and I would appreciate some help.
Hi, and welcome to the forums.
Could it have detected a virus in this file and deleted this file from my hard drive and then from each and every backup in Time Machine?
Seems very doubtful, especially since there are no viruses that run on OSX.
There is a small amount of malware, but you have to actively participate in getting it onto your Mac.
But . . . are you running any anti-virus software? Some of it does cause all sorts of problems on Macs.
The second change was that I selected "Back Up Now" for the first time on Time Machine last night after that patch. I usually had Time Machine run automatically, but while I was updating, I decided to do a forced backup. Could this forced backup have deleted all prior instances of this file if it was missing on my hard drive then?
No. A backup is a backup is a backup; they're all the same, no matter how they're started. And Time Machine only deletes things when it "thins" backups. Basically, it keeps all backups for 24 hours, except the first of each day, which it keeps for a month, and the first of each week, which it keeps as long as there's room.
So it's a bit unpredictable, but if a file is on your Mac for at least 24 hours, its backup will be kept for at least a month.
This file is important to me, does anyone have a suggestion as to how I can retrieve it? I thought having Time Capsule would save this kind of headaches. I did a search within the backups, in case the file mysteriously "moved", but the file is just plain missing on all backups and on my hard drive. To make things worse, I Emptied my Trash last night, so I can't see if it is in there. Though, I didn't delete the file.
I don't use Excel, so can't help much with specifics. Is it possible this is some sort of temporary file that's either never actually saved to disk, or is saved with a different name each time?
Are all your other, similar files in your backups?

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

I want to include an external Photo drive in my current Time Machine backup. How?

I just set up my Time Machine last night. I have two additional external hard drives attached to my iMac, one with photos, one with music. I wanted those two external hard drives to be included in my Time Machine backup, but apparently I did something wrong in setting up Time Machine because it appears they have been excluded from the backup process.
I see them listed in the exclude list, but I see no way to add them to Time Machine backup. The whole reason I wanted to get this backup set up was to make sure my photos and music were coppied to the backup. Is there a way to add these two external hard drives to my Time Machine backup now that it has been set up? If not, is there a way to start over and re-setup the Time Machine so I can include them?
It seems like it shouldn't be so complicated. What am I missing?
Thank you for your responses.

You remove the drives from the exclude list..
Use the + to add things to the exclude list..
Highlight the item and use the - to remove it from the exclude list.

Time machine last 7 days

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