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![]() Under Available disks, it shows "My Passport for Mac"ĭoes the upgrade to OS 10.13 do something to the Time Machine backups such that it wouldn't recognize my previous backup disk and require a completely fresh backup and not just the incremental change since the last backup? If I choose my same external drive from the Available disks, will it overwrite any of my previous backups because it will have a same name, etc? Should I rename the old folder so it doesn't get overwritten?ĭoes the upgrade to OS 10.13 do something to the Time Machine backups such that it wouldn't recognize my previous backup disk and require a completely fresh backup and not just the incremental change since the last backup? When I choose "Select Disk.", it shows "My Passport for Mac" as the Backup Disk but it is unavailable. It says Oldest Backup: None and Latest Backup: None. When I turn on Time Machine, it seems to know that my backup disk is "My Passport for Mac" but it doesn't auto recognize it as the one previously used. I can see the Backups.backupdb folder and the dates of previous backups. The drive was recognized and I was able to see all contents in Finder. MY PASSPORT FOR MAC WONT CONNECT FIRST TIME FOR MACI have been receiving the notifications that Time Machine hasn't backed up in "XX days." I retrieved my external hard drive (WD My Passport for Mac 2TB) and plugged it in to the laptop. Previous OS was probably 10.8 Mountain Lion. I did this prior to upgrading to OS High Sierra. ![]() The last time I backed up the computer using Time Machine was in Dec 2017. I don't regularly have an external drive connected but I do use Time Machine for infrequent backups. ![]()
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