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apparently I have not set up Time Machine correctly. I can only see Desktop backups for the last two backups even though the list on right side timeline goes way back. How do I get to see and load certain earlier backups? Haven't found a way to do that, nor even see the screes for listed dates.
MacBook Air 13", OS X 10.10
You can tentatively turn off Time Machine in the System Preferences and see if the files actually reside on the backup drive with Devon Technologies Easy Find. They will be in folders named the date of the backups. Something to realize about Time Machine, it does not keep intermediate backups indefinitely. What that means is it will backup hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly until the drive is full. When the drive reaches its capacity, it selectively removes the middle backups it can't keep from older to newest.
So if you want to keep those backups indefinitely, you'll need to move them to another drive that is not the Time Machine active drive.
You can tentatively turn off Time Machine in the System Preferences and see if the files actually reside on the backup drive with Devon Technologies Easy Find. They will be in folders named the date of the backups. Something to realize about Time Machine, it does not keep intermediate backups indefinitely. What that means is it will backup hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly until the drive is full. When the drive reaches its capacity, it selectively removes the middle backups it can't keep from older to newest.
So if you want to keep those backups indefinitely, you'll need to move them to another drive that is not the Time Machine active drive.
While in Time Machine, to see all mounted volumes shift - command - c. Information learned from Linc Davis.
Access to backups?
