Time Machine won't backup after force quit iMac

My Safari wouldn't quit, so I chose force quit from the apple icon drop down menu. When I turned my iMac back on, Time Machine would no longer work. It says I can access old data, but it won't back up any new changes. I tried utilities First Aid, but it wouldn't fully verify or repair, before stopping. I dragged and dropped the folder where I could store everything else on this 2TB Seagate external harddrive. But I could not drag and drop the backup.backup.__ files where TimeMachine resides. DoI have to reformat and lose all my saved data on Time Machine? Or is there another way?
Is it true that if you Force Quit while Time Machine is backing up it ruins the file? How could you know Time Machine is backing up? There's no littl icon on the top right.

judyarizona wrote:
My Safari wouldn't quit, so I chose force quit from the apple icon drop down menu.
When I turned my iMac back on,
Force-quitting Safari won't affect your backups. Did you also force power down on your Mac? That can affect the data on your internal HD and/or backups.
I tried utilities First Aid, but it wouldn't fully verify or repair, before stopping.
What message did it send? Sometimes you have to run Repair Disk 2 or 3 times to get everything fixed. See #A5 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting.
I dragged and dropped the folder where I could store everything else on this 2TB Seagate external harddrive.
Do you mean you're putting other data, besides your backups, on the TM drive? In the same partition? If so, that's not a good idea -- see Time Machine - Frequently Asked Question #3.
But I could not drag and drop the backup.backup.__ files where TimeMachine resides.
That's correct -- you cannot copy damaged backups.
DoI have to reformat and lose all my saved data on Time Machine? Or is there another way?
See the pink box in #A5 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting.
Is it true that if you Force Quit while Time Machine is backing up it ruins the file?
If you force-quit an app (like Safari), no. If you force power off on your Mac, that can damage the File System on any HD -- your internal HD and/or any externals, including your backups. Usually that damage can be repaired by Disk Utility.
How could you know Time Machine is backing up? There's no littl icon on the top right.
Go to System Preferences > Time Machine and check the little box at the bottom to Show Time Machine status in menu bar.

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