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My Time Machine in Finder shows the correct icon, however, on my Desktop, it shows the Yellow icon that is used for normal external hard drives. It only changes on the desktop to the time machine icon when I either eject the hard drive or in terminal use, killall Finder. But ejecting it is kinda useless as I can't use it then, and if I then reconnect it, it shows the yellow icon again.
I'm running the latest version of OS X El Capitan.
Anybody else have this issue or know how to fix this?
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I had the exact same symptoms with a Nov 2013 MacBook Pro (came with Mavericks already installed) using WD "My Passport" USB drives for Time Machine backups. The solution was to erase and reformat the external drives using Disk Utility as described in http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5911 under the heading "Erase and reformat the storage device".
I had a spare drive so, in order not to lose existing backups, I did the following:
After this I have no problem doing multiple backups in a row, putting the machine to sleep without ejecting the backup disk and then doing a further backup, and no problems with ejecting the disk.
Good luck!
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To fix this I went into Get Info for the external drive and under the "Preview:" section it showed the TM icon, which I clicked and dragged to the top of Get Info and it overlayed the yellow icon.