date:20201229

  You might want to do the First Aid before you start filling the disk again 
just for the sake of maybe avoiding it not working properly when you do have 
the disk filled with old backups.


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> On Dec 29, 2020, at 3:00 PM, Steve Matzura  wrote:
> 
> Thanks. After this purge, the volume will be pretty empty, but I'm filling up 
> the source disk pretty fast, so maybe it won't be as long as I thought before 
> the backup drive is full again. Either way, I'm archiving this message and 
> will revisit the issue the next time it happens and I try all the suggested 
> remedies--except the one where I trash the old backups, of course.
> 
> 
> On 12/29/2020 2:57 PM, John Panarese wrote:
>>   I’m guessing there is something going on with the disk. Please remember to 
>> let me know what happens. I’d be curious, and I’ll do some poking around to 
>> see if there are any other potential solutions.
>> 
>> 
>> Take Care
>> 
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>>> On Dec 29, 2020, at 2:44 PM, Steve Matzura  wrote:
>>> 
>>> I'll try it the next time it happens. For now, an easy solution is that I 
>>> deleted a folder of old backups under another name. Trash is now emptying. 
>>> Slowly.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 12/29/2020 2:42 PM, John Panarese wrote:
 Another shot in the dark here, but if this is a separate drive, try doing 
 a first aid on it via Disk Utility. Maybe, there is something corrupted 
 with a file or such. I vaguely recall I had to do this with my Time 
 Capsule in the past in which I directly connected it to my Mac to do a 
 disk repair many moons ago.
 
 Take Care
 
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Re: Time Machine Doesn't Purge Old Backups

Thanks. After this purge, the volume will be pretty empty, but I'm 
filling up the source disk pretty fast, so maybe it won't be as long as 
I thought before the backup drive is full again. Either way, I'm 
archiving this message and will revisit the issue the next time it 
happens and I try all the suggested remedies--except the one where I 
trash the old backups, of course.



On 12/29/2020 2:57 PM, John Panarese wrote:

   I’m guessing there is something going on with the disk. Please remember to 
let me know what happens. I’d be curious, and I’ll do some poking around to see 
if there are any other potential solutions.


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On Dec 29, 2020, at 2:44 PM, Steve Matzura  wrote:

I'll try it the next time it happens. For now, an easy solution is that I 
deleted a folder of old backups under another name. Trash is now emptying. 
Slowly.


On 12/29/2020 2:42 PM, John Panarese wrote:

Another shot in the dark here, but if this is a separate drive, try doing a 
first aid on it via Disk Utility. Maybe, there is something corrupted with a 
file or such. I vaguely recall I had to do this with my Time Capsule in the 
past in which I directly connected it to my Mac to do a disk repair many moons 
ago.

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  I’m guessing there is something going on with the disk. Please remember to 
let me know what happens. I’d be curious, and I’ll do some poking around to see 
if there are any other potential solutions.


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> On Dec 29, 2020, at 2:44 PM, Steve Matzura  wrote:
> 
> I'll try it the next time it happens. For now, an easy solution is that I 
> deleted a folder of old backups under another name. Trash is now emptying. 
> Slowly.
> 
> 
> On 12/29/2020 2:42 PM, John Panarese wrote:
>> Another shot in the dark here, but if this is a separate drive, try doing a 
>> first aid on it via Disk Utility. Maybe, there is something corrupted with a 
>> file or such. I vaguely recall I had to do this with my Time Capsule in the 
>> past in which I directly connected it to my Mac to do a disk repair many 
>> moons ago.
>> 
>> Take Care
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Re: Time Machine Doesn't Purge Old Backups

I'll try it the next time it happens. For now, an easy solution is that 
I deleted a folder of old backups under another name. Trash is now 
emptying. Slowly.



On 12/29/2020 2:42 PM, John Panarese wrote:
Another shot in the dark here, but if this is a separate drive, try 
doing a first aid on it via Disk Utility. Maybe, there is something 
corrupted with a file or such. I vaguely recall I had to do this with 
my Time Capsule in the past in which I directly connected it to my Mac 
to do a disk repair many moons ago.


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Hi Shawn,
Thanks for that information.
My personal situation is that, due to experiencing a rather unique
secondary disability, I have yet to find a safe voice to use. One that
does not at best stimulate my brain's dizzy centres, or at worst create
something a bit like a Cesar.
My last try, in March, involved a siri voice on an Iphone, which made me
rather sick
indeed.
for the moment Hardware, gosh I wish someone had saved the digital
dectalk voices, as I use a hardware decktalk voice now, seems safer than
software strict like Ios...believe me its complex even for my medical
team.
What I hoped for from the list was frequency related information anything
that might hint at quality before I try.
I would not be using a strict 64 bit edition of Macos regardless for
other reasons. Still, I imagine there are at least 20 or more options
just in the regular non-siri voices.

Thanks,
Karen

On Tue, 29 Dec 2020, 'Shawn Krasniuk' via MacVisionaries wrote:

Hi Karen. Some voices on the Mac are used for novelty purposes. Bells basically
talks, or in this case, sings like a grandfather clock. There are other novelty
voices that I'm not going to get indepth about because it'll take all night to
do so. But I can tell you one voice I'm glad they finally let us use on the
Mac. We can now use Siri voices. They added those voices in Catalina and they
can be used in Big Sur as well.

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On Dec 28, 2020, at 10:49 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote:

What defines a voice as useless?
I suppose a voice named bells, is just a ringer not a talker?
Are the voices say for English first in the order, or must one go down the
list finding non-English speaking voices mixed into the options? Clarity is
an absolute requirement, and I mean strictly on the mac.
Thanks so much,

On Mon, 28 Dec 2020, Jonathan C. Cohn wrote:

Well, I believe they???re only 40 English voice says, and of those at least 10
or totally useless. Generally they???re marked them as different genders and
sometimes is a compact and a non-compact version. One example of a totally
useless one, is the bells voice that was around since macOS eight or possibly
seven.

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On Dec 28, 2020, at 5:03 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote:

??? Jonathan,
Do you know if any details about each voice is provided..anywhere?
Its characteristics, frequency ranges, etc.?
Surely there must be some reason that makes each voice distinctive from each
other besides the name.
That such a number exists is honestly astonishing.
Karen

On Mon, 28 Dec 2020, Jonathan Cohn wrote:

There are approximately, 285 voices that are available as downloads from Apple. If you
pick the name of the Voice in the Speech category of VoiceOver utility, and go to the
last item in the pop-up list this will be "customize".
Pressing this brings up a dialog with a table of voices. Each voice has a
checkbox next to it to determine if if it will be enabled for use in VoiceOver.
After the list of voices is a play, cancel, and a OK button. The Play button
lets you hear a sample of the selected voice. The OK button accepts any changes
and requests System Utility to download the new voices the next time it checks
for updates.

Best wishes,

Jonathan Cohn

On Dec 28, 2020, at 09:53, Chris Westbrook wrote:

I like Alex, and sort of like Daniel sometimes, but are there additional voices
for purchase or free? Just wondering. I like Fred's voice, but he doesn't speak
clearly. haha.

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Re: Time Machine Doesn't Purge Old Backups

  Another shot in the dark here, but if this is a separate drive, try doing a 
first aid on it via Disk Utility. Maybe, there is something corrupted with a 
file or such. I vaguely recall I had to do this with my Time Capsule in the 
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> On Dec 29, 2020, at 2:14 PM, Steve Matzura  wrote:
> 
> I did, and it didn't.
> 
> 
> 
> On 12/29/2020 2:05 PM, John Panarese wrote:
>>   No, it shouldn’t be necessary. Which is why I suggested deselecting and 
>> reselecting the drive in Time Machine preferences. You will not lose any of 
>> the data, but it might force the system to start purging the oldest backups 
>> as it should. My choice to manually delete my backups is exactly that, my 
>> choice. It’s not caused by the system. When I used smaller capacity drives 
>> in the past, the backups were automatically purged, but I have a 3 TB drive 
>> and I prefer removing year plus old backups myself.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Take Care
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>>> On Dec 29, 2020, at 1:55 PM, Steve Matzura >> > wrote:
>>> 
>>> The point is, we should not have to be doing this manually at all. 
>>> According to this article ,
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 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  
>  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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Re: Time Machine Doesn't Purge Old Backups


I did, and it didn't.


On 12/29/2020 2:05 PM, John Panarese wrote:
  No, it shouldn’t be necessary. Which is why I suggested deselecting 
and reselecting the drive in Time Machine preferences. You will not 
lose any of the data, but it might force the system to start purging 
the oldest backups as it should. My choice to manually delete my 
backups is exactly that, my choice. It’s not caused by the system. 
When I used smaller capacity drives in the past, the backups were 
automatically purged, but I have a 3 TB drive and I prefer removing 
year plus old backups myself.




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On Dec 29, 2020, at 1:55 PM, Steve Matzura > wrote:


The point is, we should not have to be doing this manually at all. 
According to this article ,



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  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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Re: Time Machine Doesn't Purge Old Backups

You asked how I have dealt with this issue in the past, so I told you how I 
addressed the issue.
It isn’t my problem that you didn’t like the answer.
Next time, I won’t bother with you.

- Brad -

On Dec 29, 2020, at 12:52, Steve Matzura  wrote:

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  > 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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Re: Time Machine Doesn't Purge Old Backups

  No, it shouldn’t be necessary. Which is why I suggested deselecting and 
reselecting the drive in Time Machine preferences. You will not lose any of the 
data, but it might force the system to start purging the oldest backups as it 
should. My choice to manually delete my backups is exactly that, my choice. 
It’s not caused by the system. When I used smaller capacity drives in the past, 
the backups were automatically purged, but I have a 3 TB drive and I prefer 
removing year plus old backups myself.



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> On Dec 29, 2020, at 1:55 PM, Steve Matzura  wrote:
> 
> The point is, we should not have to be doing this manually at all. According 
> to this article ,
> 
> 
> 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.
>> 
>> 
>> Take Care
>> 
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>> 
>>> On Dec 29, 2020, at 1:30 PM, Steve Matzura  
>>>  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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Re: Time Machine Doesn't Purge Old Backups

The point is, we should not have to be doing this manually at all. 
According to this article ,



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  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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Re: Time Machine Doesn't Purge Old Backups

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 > 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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Re: Setting up "All Inboxes" on IOS

2020-12-29 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn

Paul,
My apologies, I thought there was some thing in there for that. But I could not 
find it on my current iPhone. Perhaps, this is only available on the Macintosh. 
Which is too bad, because on the Mac one can always create smart mailboxes to 
pick messages with specific criteria, but there is no way to easily do that on 
IOS..

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> On Dec 29, 2020, at 11:30 AM, Paul Hopewell  wrote:
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> Hello Jonathan,
> Alas I do not see an “All Junk” mail box while editing mail boxes on my 
> iPhone. I do see and have selected All Inboxes, All Archive, All Drafts, and 
> All Rubbish. On my iMac running the latest  Bigsur I do see an “all Junk” 
> mail box.
> Do I need to do anything in the IOS Settings for Mail to get the All Junk 
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Re: Recovering data from iPads

Yes, it also said the magic words “it may be possible”, which also means it may 
not be possible. 
There is another possibility that the article doesn’t mention.  If you have the 
original receipt from when the device in question was purchased, then Apple can 
help access a locked device.  Again, this isn’t much help if the individual is 
already deceased and the receipt is not available.

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Brad,
Near the end of the article, there was mention that you could get in touch with 
Apple support if you are the person with power of attorney and you have a death 
certificate and you have the email address of the person for the login. I 
believe the requester had at least two of those three items

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> On Dec 29, 2020, at 1:27 PM, Brad Snyder  wrote:
> 
> This article pretty much says that if you don’t have the deceased 
> individual's AppleID password or device passcode, you can’t access anything.
> The rest of the article is full of “it may be possible” and other filler that 
> doesn’t provide any real help once the individual has passed.
> 
> - Brad -
> 
> 
> On Dec 29, 2020, at 10:57, Jonathan C. Cohn  > wrote:
> 
> Believe it or not, there’s an article about this. Unfortunately, it’s from a 
> more which means it will be full of ads. But here is the link:
> 
> https://www.imore.com/how-access-iphone-content-when-someone-passes-away 
> 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Dec 29, 2020, at 10:03 AM, Michael Busboom > > wrote:
>> 
>> Hello everyone,
>> 
>> Recently a very close friend of mine died, and I inherited two iPads that he 
>> and his wife owned.  One of the iPads is three years old, and the other is 
>> five or six years old.  On one of the iPads, there are apparently a lot of 
>> pictures that family members would like to have, provided I can gain access 
>> to them and send them.
>> 
>> Here are my problems and questions:
>> 
>> Although I have the Apple user IDs for the iPads, I do not have the 
>> passwords or unlock codes.  Since I didn’t know that I would one day be 
>> getting the iPads, I never asked for them, prior to my friend’s death.  Is 
>> there any way for me to recover their pictures?
>> 
>> If there is no way to gain access to the content of these iPads, how do I do 
>> a complete reset and start setting them up for my own personal use, using my 
>> current Apple ID?  I have never done a complete restore to an iPad, but I do 
>> back up my iPhone to the Cloud regularly.  If someone can refer me to a 
>> podcast that addresses these issues, that’d be great.
>> 
>> With gratitude for any thoughts and best wishes for 2021,
>> 
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Re: Time Machine Doesn't Purge Old Backups

   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  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, 
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Re: Recovering data from iPads

2020-12-29 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn

Brad,
Near the end of the article, there was mention that you could get in touch with 
Apple support if you are the person with power of attorney and you have a death 
certificate and you have the email address of the person for the login. I 
believe the requester had at least two of those three items

Sent from my iPhone

> On Dec 29, 2020, at 1:27 PM, Brad Snyder  wrote:
> 
> This article pretty much says that if you don’t have the deceased 
> individual's AppleID password or device passcode, you can’t access anything.
> The rest of the article is full of “it may be possible” and other filler that 
> doesn’t provide any real help once the individual has passed.
> 
> - Brad -
> 
> 
> On Dec 29, 2020, at 10:57, Jonathan C. Cohn  wrote:
> 
> Believe it or not, there’s an article about this. Unfortunately, it’s from a 
> more which means it will be full of ads. But here is the link:
> 
> https://www.imore.com/how-access-iphone-content-when-someone-passes-away
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>>> On Dec 29, 2020, at 10:03 AM, Michael Busboom  wrote:
>>> 
>> Hello everyone,
>> 
>> Recently a very close friend of mine died, and I inherited two iPads that he 
>> and his wife owned.  One of the iPads is three years old, and the other is 
>> five or six years old.  On one of the iPads, there are apparently a lot of 
>> pictures that family members would like to have, provided I can gain access 
>> to them and send them.
>> 
>> Here are my problems and questions:
>> 
>> Although I have the Apple user IDs for the iPads, I do not have the 
>> passwords or unlock codes.  Since I didn’t know that I would one day be 
>> getting the iPads, I never asked for them, prior to my friend’s death.  Is 
>> there any way for me to recover their pictures?
>> 
>> If there is no way to gain access to the content of these iPads, how do I do 
>> a complete reset and start setting them up for my own personal use, using my 
>> current Apple ID?  I have never done a complete restore to an iPad, but I do 
>> back up my iPhone to the Cloud regularly.  If someone can refer me to a 
>> podcast that addresses these issues, that’d be great.
>> 
>> With gratitude for any thoughts and best wishes for 2021,
>> 
>> Mike 
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Re: Time Machine Doesn't Purge Old Backups

In the past, when my Time Machine backup has approached capacity, I have wiped 
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On Dec 29, 2020, at 12:30, Steve Matzura  wrote:

I've had this problem probably since Sierra. My 3TB backup drive fills, and 
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Time Machine Doesn't Purge Old Backups

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 
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