Hi Bill,

Time Machine should do this automatically. Check under System Preferences>Time 
Machine to see if it's still backing up. There will also be an options button 
near the lower-right corner of the window; here you can configure if Time 
Machine notifies you when it deletes an old backup to make room. Let us know 
whether Time Machine is still doing backups.

Grant

On Aug 14, 2014, at 6:39 AM, Bill Holton <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi.
> My 1tb time machine backup drive is full.  I am backing up a 500 gb drive, 
> but I have created and later deleted a number of very large files, which are 
> still on the backup.  Is there some way I can instruck it to delete the 
> oldest backups automatically in order to free up disk space?  Thanks.
> Bill
>  
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