Time Machine Question

[devil4life409]

I have recently installed Leapord on my mac book. I do not have a big external hard drive so I have set up time machine to just back up the documents folder. My question is that when time machine backs up it does not allow me to see the backups when I open the time machine program I just see gray windows. At first I thought it was because none of my files had changed so I went in and modified one of my word documents and let it back up. I still get the same result a bunch of gray windows and the first backup.

 

[theman]

shouldnt do that... try restarting.

 

[devil4life409]

I have tried that and still get the same results. I am able to browes my time machine back ups in the finder but when I look at them in the time machine program they are just displayed as gray windows.

 

[theman]

if it's only been a day or two of backups, you might consider formatting the drive with disk utility (HFS+) and then allowing TM to start over. not sure why this is happening.

 

[bacaramac]

Yeah, there is something wrong. Should just have a finder window. Hopefully its not your OSX install that has issues. I would try the formatting disc option first.

 

[devil4life409]

Thanks for the quick replay guys. Not really sure what happened but for some reason it works now. 🙂