I have a 2 Tb drive connected to my Apple Airport Extreme that is used for Time Machine backups on my two Mac OS and my wife’s Mac. It also serves as a repository for iTunes, Music archives, and Photo Archives.
It is getting too full, and there is a folder called “Backups.backupdb” that was created two years ago when I first got my Mac and connected the SSD directly to my machine. These backups are completely useless to me, and use up almost 50Gb of space that I could use. When I try to delete any of the folders in this tree using Command+Delete or Command+Option+Delete, it tries very hard to do the deleting, but I ultimately fail to get the job done, and get the following message: The operation can’t be completed because some items had to be skipped. For each item, choose File > Get Info, make sure “Locked” is deselected, and then check the Sharing & Permissions section. When you are sure the items are unlocked and not designated as Read Only or No Access, try again. Well, it’s a real pain to try and mark these folders as suggested, and actually they are all not locked, and have the access set to “read and Write’ for everyone. So how do I just snip off this folder and not get that message above? I suspect there’s a clever terminal command to do this, so looking forward to one of the real tech-heads on this list to point me in the right direction. Many thanks! Dave Carlson Woodworker, Oregonian, Farfar, Pioneer, and Engineer -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#23298): https://groups.io/g/only-apple-tns/message/23298 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/87989780/4667809 -=-=- Questions, concerns, suggestions? Contact us Group owner email: only-apple-tns+ow...@groups.io IMessage -=-=- Group Owner: only-apple-tns+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/only-apple-tns/leave/8575456/4667809/1057537604/xyzzy[dgcarlson0...@gmail.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/F412CA78-1AFB-42DC-A87C-6D4148D2F70E%40gmail.com.
