[MacGroup] Time machine

2009-07-20 Thread Harry Jacobson-Beyer
Time machine won't back up my computer. It says the backup drive is full. I want it to delete old backups but I can't figure out how to tell it to do so. Help please. Harry ___ MacGroup mailing list MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu

Re: [MacGroup] Time machine

2009-07-20 Thread Marta Edie
Are you sure it is full? Mine does it once in a while,too, but it is not full. I then pull the connection out and plug it in again, and then it moves on again. I don't know why it stalls and tells me that, but it does. Marta On Jul 20, 2009, at 06:21 am, Harry Jacobson-Beyer wrote:

Re: [MacGroup] Time machine

2009-07-20 Thread nprobasco
Additionally, is there a way to change the settings so it does not keep back-ups until the drive is full? A month worth of back-ups would be fine, then discard the old ones. Nora -Original Message- From: Harry Jacobson-Beyer harr...@me.com Sent: Jul 20, 2009 6:21 AM To: Macusergroup

[MacGroup] Time Machine, another question

2009-07-20 Thread nprobasco
I went into time machine to clean out some of the old files before it used up all the memory in my back-up hard drive, and ran into a couple of problems. I was able to move the files into the trash, but doing that will take quite a bit of time for the trash to empty. I saw a command where I

Re: [MacGroup] Time Machine, another question

2009-07-20 Thread Jonathan Fletcher
On Jul 20, 2009, at 12:00 PM, nprobasco nproba...@earthlink.net wrote: I went into time machine to clean out some of the old files before it used up all the memory in my back-up hard drive, and ran into a couple of problems. I was able to move the files into the trash, but doing that will