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What happened to my Time Machine backups?
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Kyle76
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May 30, 2008, 08:31 AM
 
I back up to a USB-connected HDD drive at my office. I eject the drive when I leave work, so Time Machine does not backup when I am away from my desk. Yesterday, I noticed the scheduled backup taking a long time and found it was doing a complete backup and my old backups were gone, meaning my backups only go back to yesterday morning. Do I need to turn off Time Machine when I eject the backup disk? Is that why my old backups were lost?
     
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May 30, 2008, 11:06 AM
 
No. How full is the backup drive? TM may have been erasing old backups.

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May 30, 2008, 12:27 PM
 
No, there was room for further backups.
     
   
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