Nora, Yes, drag the backup files to the trash and go watch a movie.....or two. It does take awhile to empty all those files. It automatically truncates the older files with the new when the disk is full. The larger your backup drive the more days and months of data you will be able to store. I LOVE it for when something goes bump in the night the backup restores it perfectly. When I purchase a new machine it ask if I want to program the settings from another Mac, TimeMachine or skip this process. If you use TimeMachine you will end up with the exact machine you had before, all settings are completely restored. Marvelous program.
John On Aug 3, 2010, at 9:49 PM, Nora Probasco wrote: > Is there any way to program Time Machine to get rid of older copies of > backups? It has completely filed my 150g backup hard drive. It takes forever > to empty the trash when I throw all the older backups away. Is that what it > is supposed to do, backup until it uses all the disk space? Is there a better > automatic backup program. On my laptop, I am using a WD portable drive which > did an initial backup and now just backs up what I change. I need something > like this on my desktop drive. > > Nora > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected] http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
