Just to be clear, when you write: "I was looking over my backups with Grand Perspective, and deleted all backups of some files"
you were using Grand Perspective only as a size-display device, but any deletions you did were from within the Time Machine galaxy interface, right? > if I try to enter time machine, finder just spins its colored disk Can you open the "Latest" folder inside the Backups.backupd folder from the Finder? Have you restarted the Mac? > On Dec 30, 2016, at 9:55 AM, Michael <keybou...@gmail.com> wrote: > > So I have an issue. I have a time machine backup drive. I did a verify disk > on it, and got a clean bill of health. > > But if I try to enter time machine, finder just spins its colored disk, and > activity monitor lists it as non-responsive. > > I cannot do anything with time machine. And just two days ago, I was able to, > no problem. I was looking over my backups with Grand Perspective, and deleted > all backups of some files that were constant changes with no backup value (to > clarify: The most recent backup of these files has value, and if I had to > restore my drive, I need them. But a one-day-old version of the file is > worthless -- only the most recent copy has any value.) > > I cannot figure out what has happened in two days to make it stop functioning. > New backups are completing with no problem at all. > > --- > Entertaining minecraft videos > http://YouTube.com/keybounce > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk