Hi bill in the menu bar, did you check whether enable switch was checked in time machine preferences and options? then the automatic backups should come back. That happened to me once and i also checked backup on battery power. Hope that helps. All the best. cheers gerry have a nice day Email: gerryc...@optusnet.com.au Skype: gerry.cook1 Twitter: @gerrycook52
On 15 Aug 2014, at 10:36 pm, Bill Holton <bill32...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi. > No, no longer getting backups. Getting backup failed messages, says to > change disk. I would have thought it would delete old backups automatically, > doesn't seem to be happening for me. > > > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Grant Hardy > Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2014 1:41 PM > To: MacVisionaries List > Subject: Re: Time Machine question > > Hi Bill, > > Time Machine should do this automatically. Check under System > Preferences>Time Machine to see if it's still backing up. There will also be > an options button near the lower-right corner of the window; here you can > configure if Time Machine notifies you when it deletes an old backup to make > room. Let us know whether Time Machine is still doing backups. > > Grant > > On Aug 14, 2014, at 6:39 AM, Bill Holton <bill32...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi. > My 1tb time machine backup drive is full. I am backing up a 500 gb drive, > but I have created and later deleted a number of very large files, which are > still on the backup. Is there some way I can instruck it to delete the > oldest backups automatically in order to free up disk space? Thanks. > Bill > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email tomacvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
