If you don't want to get a larger disk, another possibility would be to use one of the Network Based backup systems.
The folks at Tidbits usually recommend having three types of backups. 1. Off-site (network based) so if everything in your house is irrecoverable you have a backup. 2. Time Machine based backups to have local copies that are fast and easy to get to. 3. Full disk backups that can allow you to restore 90% of your system with just booting from an external disk. If you want to read details, they published a Take Control book on backups, and I believe all of their books are available via bookshare if you are not comfortable paying a dozen or two dollars for a well researched book on the topic of backing up your Macintosh. , Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 2:25 PM Tim Kilburn <kilbu...@me.com> wrote: > Hi, > > If you restart your Mac, you should be able to empty the trash. Regarding > a better backup solution, others may disagree, but I believe that Time > Machine is your best option. How much of your 2 TB internal is free? The > recommendation of a drive being twice the size of what it's backing up > assumes that you're using a large portion of its space. If you are using > less than 1 TB on your internal drive, then a 2 TB external should do the > trick. > > Later... > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On Jul 15, 2016, at 12:20, Joshua Tubbs <ori...@icloud.com> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > I am wondering how to delete a time machine backup in the trash? I delete > the trash, tell it that I want to remove all items, including locked ones, > but then it tells me that some of the backup folders, such as the user > folder, which is now on this new Mac, my home folder and something dated > something in July, are all in use. > Is there any way to delete this? I want it completely trashed. > Furthermore, I don’t have a drive bigger than my now current internal of 2 > TB, so I guess I won’t be using Time Machine for now. 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