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Thank you, Ganbustein. I did not do any mods or use special settings for Time Machine, so I think the issue of having only the user folder on the older backups is corruption.

I would like to reformat the other externals I have and then put the files back on them. How I propose to proceed is to turn off Time Machine and restart the computer so it does not see it as a Time Machine Drive? and then since there is still almost a Terrabyte of free space on it, I want to move a few of my Silverlining backups onto there from the 1 TB drive they are on for storage, erase THAT drive and reformat it, then move those backups onto the freshly formatted 1 TB. That was the drive that would not eject when I was having all the "weird assorted problems." I want to make sure it's clean. Once that drive is zeroed out and reformatted, I will move the Silverlining backups back onto the drive where they were and zero out the Time Machine Drive completely. I want to take the opportunity of having space to clean the other drive, but not wipe out my Time Machine backups until I feel confident the Silverlining backups are solid. What do you think?