In my message, I clearly did say "other than trashing it." So why did
you give me the answer I specifically requested not be given? What a
ridiculous notion--my drive fills up with perfectly good backups, so
when I can't make any more, I'll just throw 'em all away. What a
fantastically bad idea that is! I hope you never run into a situation
where you need a backup and don't have one. That happened to me once and
only once in the 70's. If one can't learn from one's own experience,
learn from others' counsel. Do the purge yourself. It's more work, but
it'll save you in the end some day.
On 12/29/2020 1:35 PM, Brad Snyder wrote:
In the past, when my Time Machine backup has approached capacity, I
have wiped the drive and made a clean start over.
- Brad -
On Dec 29, 2020, at 12:30, Steve Matzura <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I've had this problem probably since Sierra. My 3TB backup drive
fills, and even though Time Machine clearly stipulates that it will
purge old backups to create space for new ones, it just never does. If
you've had this problem, how did you solve it, other than manually
trashing old backups you no longer wanted?
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