Unable to change Time Machine settings

Time Machine has been behaving strangely for me. For starters, when I attempt to access it through system preferences, it fails to load. The top bar simply becomes "Loading Time Machine..." and remains that way. It does not hang, but simply does not seem to proress.
However, I can load up Time Machine if I run it from the .app in applications. When I do so however, the settings are locked. When I attempt to click on the lock in the bottom right hand corner to unlock the settings however, nothing happens. No Authentication pop up, no request for password or anything.
I have never used time machine before this, and discovered this only when attempting to set up time machine for the first time.
If you have any suggestions on how to solve this problem, your help would be very much appreciated.

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