Timeshift (after a year of use) today has lost contact to backup device and snapshots

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External backup disk drive has two different UUID -- timeshift can't find snapahots

This morning I found that “timeshft” gui and cli could not find the backup directory on external drive as it had for couple of years. The external drive is mounted and file manager shows all the backup files are there. I found that blkid and fdisk show different UUID for the same device. Have no idea what happened. /dev/sdb6 is where the timeshift directory is. Help needed. Perhaps change /etc/fstab??? (base) tom@mydesktop: /run/media/tom/WD_book_linux/timeshift/snapshots-daily $ sudo blk…