Hi, In fact, it is backup storage. The thing to note though is that it does the work for you. Time Machine will automatically free up space from old backups when it is getting low on space. It does the management itself. You are perfectly welcome and able to get rid of old files if you wish, you just need to do it from within the Time Machine interface, not the Finder. This ensures that the backup maintains its integrity and is useful to you. The Time Machine interface is totally accessible to VO, so removing these older backups or files is doable if you do care to go that direction.
Later... Tim Kilburn Apple Teacher (with Swift Playgrounds Recognition) Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Dec 20, 2018, at 08:02, Traci Duncan <[email protected]> wrote: Thanks guys, you have taught me more about time machine. I think I saw it as a back up storage for files. I could go in and delete copies from several years old. it doesn’t sound like that’s the case. Appreciate it, Traci Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 20, 2018, at 6:51 AM, Jonathan Cohn <[email protected]> wrote: > > As Tim mentioned, there is the possibility of corrupting your Time Machine > backups by modifying the backup in ways the tool did not expect. It is very > possible that Time Machine is peeping a checksum of backups and that removing > 1 file could invalidate the entire save, since Time Machine is a closed box, > without experimentation there is no true way of knowing what damage will be > caused. In addition, since Time Machine keeps hourly backups for the last day > daily backups for the last month … You would have a lot of places to go to > delete that one file. > > Now, lets step back and look at the reasoning. I can think of two reasons to > delete file from a backup and in both cases I can suggest that the effort is > fruitless. > > 1. Space concerns. Except for VM Partition files you need to delete files > because you are running out of backup space then you did not plan well and > your best bet is to re-think and get a larger backup system and forget about > it. > 2. Privacy If this file has information that is not good for you then simply > doing an erase on the file is not sufficient good forensics teams will look > at all the data on the disk weather erased or not. In addition, I believe > most Apple applications save files to iCloud until they are named the first > time, so even if you remove the files from your computer there is a > reasonable chance that an early version is somewhere on the network. Again, > proper planning on your part in protecting critical information with a > Password will provide a better long time solution for you rather than > expecting erasing to hide past sins (or whatever) > > Jonathan > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. 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