Re: VO friendly weay to delete old backups

2018-04-09 Thread Steve Matzura
Unless you're using your Time Machine drive for other things that may 
cause it to run out of space, you don't have to concern yourself with 
deleting old backups. Time Machine does that for you automatically  as 
the disk fills up, and tells you when it does so.



On 4/9/2018 6:45 AM, Paul Hopewell wrote:

Hi Tim,
Many thanks for the tip on looking in the Windows list for time machine 
controls. When I do that I see a button labelled previous and if I pressed that 
several times I can see dates of Time Machine backups. If I then comeback to 
the windows list and move to the finder window to choose my hard disk and then 
go to the context menu I see options to delete backup and delete all backups. 
To free up space I want to safely delete all backups before my chosen backup 
date. So which option should I choose? I do not want to experiment as I do not 
want to risk the integrity of backups newer then the chosen backup date.
Many thanks.

Paul Hopewell



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VO friendly weay to delete old backups

2018-04-09 Thread Paul Hopewell
Hi Tim, 
Many thanks for the tip on looking in the Windows list for time machine 
controls. When I do that I see a button labelled previous and if I pressed that 
several times I can see dates of Time Machine backups. If I then comeback to 
the windows list and move to the finder window to choose my hard disk and then 
go to the context menu I see options to delete backup and delete all backups. 
To free up space I want to safely delete all backups before my chosen backup 
date. So which option should I choose? I do not want to experiment as I do not 
want to risk the integrity of backups newer then the chosen backup date. 
Many thanks.

Paul Hopewell

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