Ahh, that makes sense. I opened up the drive and just saw the previous back ups 
so thought they were just taking up room.
On Nov 5, 2014, at 9:15 PM, Tim Kilburn <kilbu...@me.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> If you only use that drive for Time Machine backups, the Time Machine process 
> will remove old backups on its own, ensuring you have enough room.  If you do 
> a massive change though, it may not have the room to complete that increment 
> of the backup.
> 
> Later...
> 
> Tim Kilburn
> Fort McMurray, AB Canada
> 
>> On Nov 5, 2014, at 8:51 PM, Faisal ali <faisal.a...@icloud.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Is it simple to remove old time machine backups? My partition for the time 
>> machine is only 500 gigs, and I don’t want multiple backups of my system 
>> taking up the entire drive when the data being backed up are cumulative.
>> Thanks
>> 
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