OS X :: Deleting Old TM Backups?
Dec 2, 2010I want to delete an older unused TM backup, but when i try to delete files from that backup i get the message that they cannot be deleted.
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OS X :: Deleting Far More Backups Than Necessary?
Jul 14, 2009I just restored my system early this evening with Time Machine. After doing some stuff tried to run a back up and noticed that it was deleting far more backups than necessary:It seems like it thinks it has to backup the whole drive, and so is deleting everything to make up the space. At best I've copied a few GB over from another drive. Either way, it's strange that is requested 308.08 GB given that my iMac HD only has 264 GB of stuff. This Apple article seems to confirm this:[URL]Is there any way to just do an incremental backup? I don't want to loose my (remaining) previous backups is possible?
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Feb 15, 2009On my 500GB external hard drive I have a 200GB partition where all my Time Machine backups go.
The situation is: I have some backup folders from when I first started to use TM, then I have some backup folders from when I was using TM with my SSD (fresh install, different backup), then I have some folders from when I switched back from my SSD to my 5400RPM drive (again, fresh install, didn't restore).
I wanted to check out SuperDuper, so I need to go through the backup folders and delete the junk (Applications folders, etc.), keeping the important stuff (most of which isn't on this drive, since I did not do a restore).
Unfortunately, it tells me "The operation can't be completed because backup items can't be modified." Does anyone know how to force delete these without reformatting the partition (last resort)? I found a possible solution that involves opening TM, browsing to the folder, hitting the Actions gear and clicking Delete This Backup or something, but that option isn't in the list. I am only able to pick "Delete All Backups of xxx".
OS X :: Restoring/deleting TM Backups?
Jul 19, 2010I needed to delete one folder from 4 back up days in time machine. It wouldn't let me delete just the one folder because it kept saying that I can't modify backed up items. I ended up putting all 4 back up days in the trash (which required my putting in a password). When it prepared to empty I saw there were over 60,000 items and I got scared that something important might be in them. Now, the 4 particular days are not that recent, and not that old. About midway through all my back up days.
If I delete all 4 of them, will the data in the back ups before or after those days change? Will it affect any of the data I have now?
I've also tried removing them from the trash and putting them back in time machine after I chickened out. It wouldn't let me do that because it once again said that I can't modify backed up files. When I pressed authenticate to put in my password, I got another error message that said I can't do it.
So if I can't empty the trash and I can't put the files back, what do I do?
This is all because of one folder that happens to appear in 4 back up days. My ideal scenario would be to put back those 4 days where they belong in time machine, and remove just the one folder from those days.
OS X :: Time Machine Not Deleting Old Backups?
Oct 20, 2010Why isn't TM deleting my old back-ups to make room for the new ones? I have 25 GB space left in my TM partition and 35 GB is needed for a new back-up but it keeps telling me it is failing to do the back-up for lack of space.
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Feb 9, 2009I have just deleted some folders from Time Machine (by clicking on the gears and then clicking "delete all backups of ..... "), but I didn't get the hard drive space back on the Time Capsule.
I deleted about 50GB but Time Capsule reports having the same amount of space available as before the deletion.
Is this usual? How do I get the space back?
Mac Pro :: Time Machine Is Deleting Old Backups?
Feb 29, 2012I have a WD 500GB harddrive which has worked wonders for time machine, but I've noticed and canceled that the past 2 days when I've tried to "back up"
it starts to calculate the files then starts deleting old back ups, Either I've never noticed this before or this is abnormal?
Just thinking that to do time machine you need old back ups so it doesn't appear right to me.Â
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Mac Pro, time machine
Mac Pro :: Deleting Old Time Machine Backups
Jun 23, 2014I regularly back up my system ( every couple of weeks! ) and data to an external 2TB drive however I only really need a copy of recent state of system and data. Will it be good practice to enter time machine and go back to the old back ups and delete so that only recent backs up are maintained on drive. This would also free up space on my external drive? I just want to ensure deleting old back ups does not harm the integrity of the data. Â
Also i wanted to ascertain if it is possible to use time machine drive in another mac and simply drag and drop files from the latest back up onto this other computer?
OS X :: Deleting Time Machine Backups Left Over Of Old Mac
Aug 20, 2010I got a new MBP awhile ago to replace my old MB, and am using the same HD for Time Machine backups. For awhile I wanted to keep the old backups around, but now that I'm fine without them, they're just taking up space, and they're not automatically deleting as the HD fills up, it seems that it only deletes backups of the computer that it's backing up when it needs the space. I know usually deleting Time Machine backups through the Finder is a really bad idea, but since I don't have the old MB to do it through the Time Machine interface any more, it's the only way. Would I be OK to do it that way, since I want to delete all the backups from that Mac? Or would I risk screwing up the backups of my MBP?
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Dec 3, 2014About This Mac / Storage -> 65GB worth of backups. How do I find these backups and delete them. I am in need for space to download a program.Â
Also, I just deleted a program which is 60GB but only 30GB was deleted form my computer. I search the program name and files and nothing came up, is there a place these files are hiding which I can then delete.
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MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014), 10.10
Applications :: Time Machine Deleting Past Backups
Mar 29, 2009I don't know if its supposed to do this or not because I am a new time machine user. I have a HFS + Backup Drive using the GUID partition table that is used by time machine. Yesterday I had quite a few backups in my backup directory, today I come on to find that some of these backups are missing. Does it delete some backups?
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Dec 31, 2009I'm looking for a program that will let me delete old Time Machine backups on a schedule. I am aware that TM will delete old backups once the drive is full. However, I don't want to let TM fill up my hard drive (having a ton of backups is not useful to me, and I use my hard drive to store movies as well), and I don't like having to manually delete backups when I want to add more files to my external hard drive. I've read many forum posts that recommend "just letting TM do its thing."
I'm just looking for a way to minimize the number of backups that are kept so I can keep plenty of open space on my hard drive for when I add to my movie collection. I'm already using TimeMachineEditor to back up less frequently, but what I would really like is a program that will automatically delete an old backup every time I add a new one. Ideally, I'd like to back up once a day and keep a week's worth of backups. So, once I have 7 backups on my hard drive, the next time my computer backs up the oldest of those 7 will automatically be deleted.
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Deleting Old Time Machine Backups From External HD
Apr 29, 2012I have a 1 TB external hard drive that I've been using as a time machine drive & also as a place to put random files i dont need on my computer and its starting to get very full. Most of whats on there is old backups from the past year & 1/2 that I have no use for anymore. is there a way to delete all of the backups that are on there right now without deleting the other files I've put on there. I have a bunch of projects and files on there that I cant put anywhere else and just format the drive. Basically, i need a way to delete all of my time machine backups off my external hd without deleting all my other files on there.
View 1 Replies View RelatedMacBook Pro :: Final Word On Time Machine Deleting Backups?
Aug 7, 2009Just wanted to know if the method I used to delete some back ups were save. What I did was just drag two back ups that I didn't need anymore into my trash, held option and clicked delete. I am asking this because I came across this video saying if I used this method, I would be "screwed" [URL]. Is the method I used safe, or did it some how mess up my TM or leave left over data?
View 3 Replies View RelatedOS X :: Time Machine Backups Missing / Unable To Find Backups
Sep 30, 2008My Time Machine has been making the usual regular backups for a few months onto my Time Capsule. I just found that all the backups prior to about a week ago have vanished. It's not a disaster (I think) as I assume that the current backups reflect what's on my iMac (I haven't had to delete files from it yet).
Where did they go? Why did they go?
A possible connection: My TC is 500GB; my iMac 1TB. I recently put extra files for temporary use onto the iMac hard drive - Time Machine said (in effect) 'that's too much, try removing certain folders from the backup'. I excluded said folder and things seemed okay, but it would be at around the time I did that that my old backups have gone.
OS X :: Unable To Find Backups / Time Machine Backups Gone
Nov 4, 2009Just wondering if anyone has had a similar problem with the Time Machine. I bought a 500gb Time Capsule last July and it has been running perfectly until a few days agp. I noticed that all my backups were no where to be seen (when entering Time Machine on my MBP) and that it was doing a full backup.. The backup took the guts of 36 hours.
I've come home today to find that all backups are gone again and it is doing another full backup!!!Any ideas what is wrong here?
Hardware :: How Many Backups Is Too Many Backups?
Dec 5, 2010Been thinking on my backup solutions. Currently I use Time capsule and works great. Then I thought I want a backup of it so got an external USB and use the archive feature. Then I thought scrap that and get a dual drive NAS with a raid mirror. To be honest, I a thinking one backup is enough. Really what are the odds of the main machine and a backup to get screwed up.
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Apr 22, 2012I can't close system preferences and it won't do anything else. Did i do something wrong or is it normal?
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
OS X :: Using Ext HD With TM Backups With New Mac?
Apr 10, 2010If I sell my current macbook air and then use that money to go purchase a mac mini, can I use my external harddrive with my Time Machine backups on it to set up the mac mini exactly how my MBA was. I.e. no need to install any programs, etc.?
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May 3, 2010I just dropped a 256gb SSD in my 13" macbook pro. When i had a normal HDD i used a portable external and did backups weekly. Do you think its still a wise idea to do backups with an SSD or are they safe enough that its pretty much redundant?
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Apr 5, 2009I am looking for a program that I can rip a dvd to am Image file and have that image file compressed from its original format of 7.9gig to say 4.5 or less.
I use to use DVDshrink on my windows machine and all I have found for ripping and archiving dvds for mac is handbrake and MacTheRipper
MacBook Air :: Get Rid Of 15G Of Backups On It?
Apr 14, 2012Just found that I have 15G of backups on my MacBook Air hard drive (64G) .I don't want to use 20% of my drive for back ups. I am using time capsule
Info:MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
OS X :: Erasing Backups In TimeMachine?
Nov 20, 2009My TimeMachine external HD is almost full, so I would like to erase a couple of iMovie projects that I don't need anymore and are pretty big. I did this once my opening a 'find' window and moving the files to the trash from there but this no longer seems to work.
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Sep 22, 2010My external is getting pretty full and was trying to delete some previous backups. I put them in the trash and each time I try to delete them I get error code 8003. I tried using Trash it! but after 12 hours of letting it run nothing was removed.
Any ideas of how to empty it?
After carelessly playing with terminal (learned my lesson) I just would like to put the back up files back on my external, which says "can't be done since backup items can't be modified"
OS X :: Transfer TimeMachine Backups?
Feb 5, 2008My timemachine disk is getting full soon and i'd like to use a bigger disk from then on. Is it possible to move the timemachine backups from the old to the new disk and continue flawlessly where it left off? Is there any special recommendation how to copy the stuff over or should i use an app like carboncopycloner to clone the disk over to the new?
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Jan 27, 2009I bought a 500gb Time Capsule last July and it has been running perfectly until a few days agp. I noticed that all my backups were no where to be seen (when entering Time Machine on my MBP) and that it was doing a full backup.. The backup took the guts of 36 hours. I've come home today to find that all backups are gone again and it is doing another full backup.
View 2 Replies View RelatedHardware :: Port Backups From Old TC To New TC?
Mar 3, 2009I'm considering upgrading to the new Time Capsule because I would get a lot of use out of the guest networking and dual band features (but only because I have someone who will buy my old one from me) but I have one concern.
Does anybody know if there is a way to port my existing Time Machine backups to the new Time Capsule? I would rather not lose that archive of the past year if I don't have to.
OS X :: Time Machine Backups Are Gone
Jun 28, 2009My Time Machine has been making the usual regular backups for a few months onto my Time Capsule. I just found that all the backups prior to about a week ago have vanished. It's not a disaster (I think) as I assume that the current backups reflect what's on my iMac (I haven't had to delete files from it yet). Where did they go? Why did they go? A possible connection: My TC is 500GB; my iMac 1TB. I recently put extra files for temporary use onto the iMac hard drive - Time Machine said (in effect) 'that's too much, try removing certain folders from the backup'. I excluded said folder and things seemed okay, but it would be at around the time I did that that my old backups have gone. What do you guys think? Have I messed up and how do I avoid a repetition?
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Aug 26, 2009What is the best way to upgrade to SL from Leopard in terms of my Time Machine backups? Will Time machine try to restore from my backup and will this cause a problem? I am guessing that I should just manually copy files back across from my backup and then perform a new complete backup??
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Feb 4, 2010Basically I use an external drive for my time machine backups, the problem is that the backups aren't password protected so anyone with physical possession of the external drive can get at my data.
Is there a way to PW protect the external backups?
Assuming I can... consider that if my mac ever crashed and my data was lost, could I still use my PW protected backups to restore? Or put on a new machine?
