The point is, we should not have to be doing this manually at all.
According to this article <https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201250>,
Time Machine automatically makes hourly backups for the past 24 hours,
daily backups for the past month, and weekly backups for all previous
months. The oldest backups are deleted when your backup disk is full.
On 12/29/2020 1:38 PM, John Panarese wrote:
Maybe, reselect the disk again and see if that causes it to start removing
oldest backups? I’ve not encountered this. I usually start deleting old
backups myself at some point when they are beyond a year old.
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On Dec 29, 2020, at 1:30 PM, Steve Matzura <[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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