You are reading a single comment by @kboy and its replies.
Click here to read the full conversation.
-
you said you've looked at the oldest backup, is there nothing if you come towards the more recent backups in time machine? Sorry if that sounds obvious, just going through things in my head.
-
How are you trying to view the files? Are you actually using the time machine app or just in finder? You should be able to access each backup individually and scroll through them all, they'll be arranged by date.
The only reason they'd be deleted is if the drive isn't big enough and it's deleted the older backup to make space for the new stuff
JonD
haveo
@kboy
Got some file-finding issues here, would love some advice
I'm running 2 external hdd's as time machine backups. For whatever reason, I needed to restore a dropbox folder I've gotten disconnected from.
I plug in backup hdd 1, and it's dead. Boo.
I plug in hdd 2, thinking I'm well smart running two separate backups. As I browse the oldest backup I can see the whole dropbox folder I need to restore, so all should be fine. But, as it's a Time Machine disc, it goest straight ahead and starts the next backup, and subsequently deleting the very files I need, as they're the oldest ones saved...
If I now look in the oldest Time Machine backup, the particular dropbox-folder is empty, but if I search the finder for .psd, I can see all the files I need, but I can't access them. I can see when they're created and how big they are, but that's it, the file itself doesn't seem to have any reference to it.
Anyone else had this problem and can give me any pointers? As it work, I'm pretty keen to get it sorted, and spending on recovery software is definitely on the cards. I've already run it through Disk Drill but it says it can't find any deleted files...
Also - fuuuuuuuuuck!