Time machine won't work

It's telling me the computer has two macintosh HD files so won't allow me to back up on time machine until I change the name of one of the folders

How do I do that?

MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 12.6

Posted on Nov 7, 2022 09:04 AM

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John Galt

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Posted on Nov 7, 2022 09:09 AM

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Nov 7, 2022 09:09 AM in response to david3955

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Nov 7, 2022 11:41 AM in response to John Galt

Thank you Eric_G1 that solved the problem via Disk Utility.

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