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On Behalf Of Joshua Tubbs
Sent: Sunday, 17 July 2016 3:05 AM
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Deleting a Time Machine Backup in the trash
Yes, but the backup data is in the trash now so can’t that is what I am trying
to get rid of.
> On Jul 16, 2016, at 3:50 AM, Simon Fogart
Hi,
The Trash for each media device is kept on that device. So, the Trash for an
external drive will reside on that drive itself. Therefore, erasing the drive
will also eliminate its related Trash. You will, likely, need to turn off Time
Machine before the erase will be permitted.
Later...
Yes, but the backup data is in the trash now so can’t that is what I am trying
to get rid of.
> On Jul 16, 2016, at 3:50 AM, Simon Fogarty wrote:
>
> What about just eraising the intire disk using disk utilities?
>
> That will give you a clean slate to start again with.
>
> And if you have ev
Simon,
That's a very good suggestion. I've done just that on occasion. If your
backup folder is rather large, like 2, 3 or 4 TB, it actually takes quite a
while to empty the Trash. It can even make you believe that your computer has
hung, even though it has not. Once you turn off Time Machi
turday, 16 July 2016 6:26 AM
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Deleting a Time Machine Backup in the trash
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 op
What about just eraising the intire disk using disk utilities?
That will give you a clean slate to start again with.
And if you have everything on your new machine then your not going to lose
anything
Just a thought.
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From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:m
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
I use both Time Machine and Carbon Copy Cloner and each will back up
to completely separate external drives so if one dies I still have the
other. I also do not put anything else on those drives/partitions.
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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
