After doing this, I can "enter" Time Machine even when my external T.M. drive is disconnected. I can force the creation of snapshots with the command tmutil snapshot, and I can confirm from the ...

this is an external SSD that holds the Time Machine backups. the size of the data on the drive looks to be correct. First Aid sees 83 snapshots. It fails when ...

Time Machine backups don’t add up! Or, rather, if you’re viewing the contents of a Time Machine backup volume in the Finder and choose File > Get Info and enable Calculate All Sizes, the totals of all ...