Where are my backups?

Hi, I have a new mac book pro (retina- Lion OSX 10.8.2) and want to retrieve my time machine backups on this new device but whenever I enter the time capsule application  I  get an error message saying "unexpected error occcurred error -6584'). Eventually the time machine image window starts but none of my back ups are there.
Any idea what's going wrong or what I should do?
(the old Mac that I was backing up was a Mac book pro Snow Leopard if that is of any importance...)
thanks!

To retrieve old backup on a new Mac see the FAQ from Pondini Q17
http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html

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