Pete,
From some notes I have. You are almost there.
When you have the date and time of the backup you wish to remove,
and stop interacting with the slider. Use Window Chooser to get back to
Finder once again. If you wish to remove the entire backup for that
timeline...
Go to Sidebar
Hi and Happy New Year to all,
I’m sure others have had this happen, so I hope I can get some help with this:
My Time Machine disk is full, and I want to delete some older backups. I’ve
read instructions from several different sources, but things are not making
sense. I can go to Menu Extras > T
several years
old. it doesn’t sound like that’s the case.
Appreciate it,
Traci
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> On Dec 20, 2018, at 6:51 AM, Jonathan Cohn wrote:
>
> As Tim mentioned, there is the possibility of corrupting your Time Machine
> backups by modifying the backup in ways the
ohn wrote:
>
> As Tim mentioned, there is the possibility of corrupting your Time Machine
> backups by modifying the backup in ways the tool did not expect. It is very
> possible that Time Machine is peeping a checksum of backups and that removing
> 1 file could invalidate the entir
As Tim mentioned, there is the possibility of corrupting your Time Machine
backups by modifying the backup in ways the tool did not expect. It is very
possible that Time Machine is peeping a checksum of backups and that removing 1
file could invalidate the entire save, since Time Machine is a
Hi,
Whether it's on an external drive or not makes no difference at all. The Time
Machine backup is the backup wherever it resides. Regarding your other
question, you can delete an instance of a pdf from your backups, but deleting
one file isn't really going to make a difference for saving sp
You could but why? Unless you want to erase ALL instances of a
particular file. In that case you could go into TM and starting with the
most recent date of backup, open Finder and run down the file and delete it.
As Tim says, TM will make incremental backups of any file that has
been mod
I am noticing I failed to mention my back up is on an external disk. Does that
make a difference?
Traci
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> On Dec 19, 2018, at 3:07 PM, Traci Duncan wrote:
>
> Interesting…
>
> So I could go in and delete an entire back up, but not necessarily a file or
> folder? For exa
Interesting…
So I could go in and delete an entire back up, but not necessarily a file or
folder? For example I could delete July 2014 back up, but not a specific PDF
file?
Thank you,
Traci
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> On Dec 19, 2018, at 2:25 PM, 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries
> wrote:
>
> Hi,
Hi,
A backup is not something that you should manually change. If you wish to make
changes to a file, then it should be done in the current version. Then the
changes are recorded properly, and the backup can be used to get at versions
before the change was made. If you no longer have the fil
Hi all,
I am not super familiar with Time Machine. I just started playing around with
searching inside old backups. I want to modify some old files. Probably delete
some older backups of files. I have some dmg protected folders. Outside of Time
Machine, I open these like normal. They are treate
to my computer. It was partitioned with one partition being for
> my time machine backups, and the other half being NTFS. However, time machine
> cannot backup to my partition, and it is not telling me why. I have had no
> issues with it last year, and I’ve been relying on the time machine
No space left on the time machine partition?
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Sent: Friday, 1 June 2018 1:34 AM
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: issues with Time Machine backups
Hello all,
I haven’t connected my drive for time
connected it to my computer. It was partitioned with one partition being for my
time machine backups, and the other half being NTFS. However, time machine
cannot backup to my partition, and it is not telling me why. I have had no
issues with it last year, and I’ve been relying on the time machine
Hello all,
I haven’t connected my drive for time machine in a while, but have recently
connected it to my computer. It was partitioned with one partition being for my
time machine backups, and the other half being NTFS. However, time machine
cannot backup to my partition, and it is not telling
wish to delete,
there’s an option there to move it to the trash.
Hope this helps.
Andrew
> On Apr 8, 2018, at 5:25 PM, Paul Hopewell wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I am running Mac OS 10.13.4 on a new iMac. I need to delete some old time
> machine backups to make space for a rather l
iMac. I need to delete some old time
> machine backups to make space for a rather large SuperDuper backup. IS there
> a VO friendly way to do this? I tried doing what Google search suggests but I
> could not see the list of backup dates to choose the ones to be deleted. It
> seems tha
Hello,
I am running Mac OS 10.13.4 on a new iMac. I need to delete some old time
machine backups to make space for a rather large SuperDuper backup. IS there a
VO friendly way to do this? I tried doing what Google search suggests but I
could not see the list of backup dates to choose the ones
Best wishes,
Jonathan Cohn
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: Tim Kilburn
> Subject: Re: Time Machine Backups
> Date: May 8, 2017 at 6:10:19 PM EDT
> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
> Reply-To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
>
>
E.T:
Thanks so much. This sounds like what I should do to get rid of these
unnecessary backups that are consuming space.
Thanks again,
Jean
Dr. Jean Parker, Ph.D.
Senior Research Fellow
Trans4m Center For Integral Development
Geneva, Switzerland
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Chuck,
I'm glad you believe that.
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mysteries of the world, all the challenges to
our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off
and say God did it." --Carl Sagan
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On 6/9/2017 12:28
Hi EAT,
Very nice!
I must try this! :)
GOD for you is the Creator of the engineers that produced Apple!
C.R.
On Jun 9, 2017, at 2:24 PM, E.T. wrote:
> Jean,
> I saved the following notes that Tim provided recently.
>
> 1. Go to Menu Extras and choose Time Machine.
>
> 2. Select Enter Time Ma
Jean,
I saved the following notes that Tim provided recently.
1. Go to Menu Extras and choose Time Machine.
2. Select Enter Time Machine.
Do not press Escape, this will dismiss TM.
3. Use Window Chooser and choose Time Machine Controls.
Interact with the Vertical Slider in the Controls wind
After I moved my iTunes library to an external drive, I created a
new backup task for it in Carbon Copy Cloner and excluded the library
from Time Machine. Then went into TM and deleted from a certain date
plus any iTunes library files. I will not run out of room any time soon
for TM backs up
This is somewhat by design. Time Machine assumes it owns whatever volume
you point it to and will continue to make incremental backups until the
volume is full. At that point it will begin to cull old backups. That's
why it's generally not a good idea to try and share space on a volume
with tim
Hello All:
Apparently time machine is not deleting old backups. I have looked and can’t
find anything about this in preferences. How can I get rid of the old backups
which are now consuming space on my external hard drive? Can I send them to the
trash?
Many thanks,
Jean
Dr. Jean Parker, Ph.
from 10.11 to 10.12 often is at least a 10 GB
change to a backup.
Later...
Tim Kilburn
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
On May 18, 2017, at 07:46, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
wrote:
Don't forget that some of the value in Time Machine backups is to be able to
keep incremental bac
Don't forget that some of the value in Time Machine backups is to be
able to keep incremental backups over time. So if you have 200GB of
stuff on your drive and your backup drive is 350GB, that will be good
for your first backup and then Time Machine will continue to make hourly
increm
uch' via MacVisionaries
wrote:
When I do time machine backups to a network drive I create a sparse
image on that drive so I can set the max size it will occupy, mount that
image and share the mounted image as my time machine backup drive for
another computer. I have this setup to store a coupl
and I
>> don't store any files except my system and very very small files for
>> immediate work
>> so, do you trust the Carbon Copy Cloner? and will it do the trick
>> without losing data?
>>
>>
>>
>> On 5/15/17, 'Chris Blouch' via Ma
the size because, my Mac Hd is only 256 GB and I
> don't store any files except my system and very very small files for
> immediate work
> so, do you trust the Carbon Copy Cloner? and will it do the trick
> without losing data?
>
>
>
> On 5/15/17, 'Chris Blo
the Carbon Copy Cloner? and will it do the trick
without losing data?
On 5/15/17, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
wrote:
> When I do time machine backups to a network drive I create a sparse
> image on that drive so I can set the max size it will occupy, mount that
> image a
When I do time machine backups to a network drive I create a sparse
image on that drive so I can set the max size it will occupy, mount that
image and share the mounted image as my time machine backup drive for
another computer. I have this setup to store a couple TM backups to a
Mac Mini that
I have three systems with TimeMachine backups on one HD without using a
separate partition for each. One issue you might run into though is I don't
believe the automatic deletion of old backups works correctly in this
configuration. So as long as you have space on the drive you should be OK.
But w
What E. T. said. If you have a VM that takes 30GB and in your VM Windows
Notepad you create a new document with a single letter in it, the entire
30GB file is now marked as being changed so TM will try to back it up
again. There is an option to have VMWare break up the virtual C drive
into chun
Time Machine will back up the VM but its not advisable. TM will see
the VM folder as just a single folder, it will not look at any files
within it. So what will happen is, every time TM runs, it creates
another copy of the VM and pretty soon your backup drive is full of VM
folders.
My s
With the partitions your single external hard drive should appear on
your desktop as two drives. You'll have to decide how much space to give
each partition. For example, if you have a 1TB drive you might break it
up into two 500GB partitions. The main issue is that TM does incremental
backups
Thanks so much , but is there anything that i must folloq when partitioning?
Ramy moustafa saber
licturer at:
faculty of musical education
music arranger and sound engineer
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> On May 15, 2017, at 9:18 AM, Daniel Chavez wrote:
>
> The only way you'd be able to use the same HD,
The only way you'd be able to use the same HD, as far as I'm aware, is create a
separate partition. Then, name the partition's accordingly. Mac Mini as 1
partition, and MacBookPro as the other partition, as examples.
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To answer both of your questions, if you give your external a second partition,
you can definitely use the same external for more than one time machine backup.
As for your second question, yes, Time Machine will backup your VM Hope that
helps.
Shawn
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Hello all:
I have my mac mini here and my laptop, i did a time machine backup from my mac
mini, can i do another time machine backup on the same External Hd but using my
MacBook pro?
will they interfere or something?
of goers, i need each one settings different.
and the other question, will the
Yes thanks as always Tim. I was missing the step to access the
Actions menu.
From E.T.'s Keyboard. . .
"God for you is where you sweep away all the
mysteries of the world, all the challenges to
our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off
and say God did it." --Carl Sagan
E-mail: a
Hi,
I've pasted in my instructions I sent out last Fall. Hopefully, they're useful
to you.
**
1. Up to the Extras menu and choose Time Machine.
2. Select Enter Time Machine.
This will automatically bring you to the newest Time Machine backup. To access
older ones...
3. Use the Windo
Its been too long since I did this and have not done it under
Sierra. Once I enter TM and find its controls, how do I select a date
and delete the backups up to that date? I used the slider but cannot
recall what the next step is. Thanks.
From E.T.'s Keyboard. . .
"God for you is where yo
roups.com
> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Joshua Tubbs
> Sent: Saturday, 16 July 2016 7:57 PM
> To: 'Maxwell Ivey' via MacVisionaries
> Subject: Can't delete my time machine backups folder due to not having
> permissions?
>
> Hi everyone,
&
or just a user?
>
> -Original Message-
> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Joshua Tubbs
> Sent: Saturday, 16 July 2016 7:57 PM
> To: 'Maxwell Ivey' via MacVisionaries
> Subject: Can't delete my
delete my time machine backups folder due to not having
permissions?
Hi everyone,
So, this backups.upd or whatever is still in my trash. Going to empty the trash
normally causes an endless loop of “X” still in use, even after a restart.
When I go to the “delete immediately” option in the trash,
Hi everyone,
So, this backups.upd or whatever is still in my trash. Going to empty the trash
normally causes an endless loop of “X” still in use, even after a restart.
When I go to the “delete immediately” option in the trash, it says I don’t have
permissions.
Help? I hate having stuff in my tras
That sounds very dodgy. Time Machine, as you noted, records ownerships and
permissions in the filesystem, so at the very least you now have a damaged file
history, and possibly have a damaged current backup where filesystem changes
you made have not been accounted for. Erase the backup target,
Hi all,
The other day I discovered that I had lost permission to read the directory
containing my Time Machine backups. I am not sure why as I am not aware of
having done anything unusual that would have corrupted the permissions. I ran
first aid on my hard drive, but this did not resolve the
Ok, I am gong to need to scratch all of the backups and start anew.
I could not figure out how to do it. When I activate Time Machine on
menu extras then select Open TM, that is where I run into trouble. Can
use some guidance, thanks.
From E.T.'s Keyboard...
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Man
Hi!
I think they’re deleted automatically when the disk becomes full so i haven’t
bothered with it.
How big is your backup disk?
Mine is 2 tb.
/A
> On 23 Nov 2015, at 22:28, E.T. wrote:
>
> What is the proper way to delete some (not all) older backups? Thanks.
>
> From E.T.'s Keyboard...
>
What is the proper way to delete some (not all) older backups? Thanks.
From E.T.'s Keyboard...
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If you
Thanks, that seems to (kind of) work. It removes the files, it's just that the
interface is kind of strange. At least I can do it. I totally forgot about the
menu icon; I was looking in Time Machine setup, the app.
> On Sep 8, 2015, at 08:14, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote:
>
> You should be able t
You should be able to browse other disks from the Time Machine MenuExtra or
Dock item. When you are looking in Finder at the files you want thrown out,
open the context menu and choose to remove it from the backup. I’m not in
front of a TM-enabled machine at the moment so the details are hazy,
Hi all,
Quick question: is there any way to modify a Time Machine backup? I have a
couple stored on an old hard drive, and the hard drive is dying. I'd like to go
through and delete all the files I no longer need, so that I can then copy the
rest whenever I replace the drive. I'm told that I can
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 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If you only use that drive for Time Machine backups, the Time Machine process
> will remove old backup
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
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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be slightly careful with dropbox, i've had files magically vanish in the past.
I still feel that an external hard drive that's in no way networked as to avoid
any possibility of a virus is the best way to go.
just my opinion,
randy
On Jan 30, 2013, at 3:09 PM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote:
> I'v
I've just got rid of my time machine and am now going to use Drop box for my
back ups.
Kawal.
On 30 Jan 2013, at 14:40, Teresa Cochran wrote:
> Hi, folk,
>
> Here's sort of a cautionary tale of mine that ended happily. A few days ago,
> my cats were particularly rambunctious and knocked the p
Hi, folk,
Here's sort of a cautionary tale of mine that ended happily. A few days ago, my
cats were particularly rambunctious and knocked the power cord away from my Mac
Mini. This, as some may know, has a magnetic connection and is easily
disconnected. Unbeknownst to me, I didn't connect the p
Can't answer your question about Pages but as for TimeMachine nothing should
change. It should just perk along like no change. After all, the file formats
didn't change and your data files like documents and music should continue to
be available like always. I would think however, that system
Hello,
I understand that there was a new update to Pages for the Mac for Mountain
Lion. Has anyone had a chance to use this? If so, are there any
accessibility issues?
Also, now that there is some synchronization between the updated Pages for
the iPhone and the updated Pages for Mac, does it make
Hello. just copuy and paste from the time machine back up from the shortcut
called latest. that way you can pick and choose what you want or don't want.
Good luck.
Sarah Alawami
If you need an edit done on a small project go to
http://music.marrie.org/master for more info. If you need to cont
You could boot off the install Disk and restore from a time machine backup from
there.
I haven't done this often enough to give steps on how to do this but you should
be able to figure it out. If not, maybe someone else could chime in.
One thing that I will coshin you to do is to make sure that t
Hi everyone,
I hope you are all doing well and enjoying the Mac life style smile. My Mac was
repaired, and all my stuff on the hard drive was wiped clean. I have a Time
Machine backup, but I'm having problems with the drive I did the backup on.
Some of the files are unusable saying the disc cou
If you have an external hard drive, once you get the new mac, and turn on
voiceover, the set up will offer to restore everything from the time machine
backup, just connect the hard drive when it asks for it, and it should find
what is available and offer to restore it.
On Feb 25, 2011, at 10:35
Correct. I did this and it takes about half an hour to an hour or maybe less
depending on the drive. As for your charger if you have apple car they will
just replace it for free.. My friend had hers replaced for free and she had at
the time apple care. lol. Good luck.
Sarah Alawami
If you n
Sure,
Some one please correct me if I'm wrong but, on the initial set up of the Mac,
it asks if you would like to use a time machine backup.
Ricardo Walker
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On Feb 25, 2011, at 11:35 AM, Allison Manzino wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm macles
Hi all,
I'm macless at the moment. THis message is being written on my Ihphone courtesy
of my bluetooth keyboard. TO make a really long story short, the Mac's charger
got too hot and I had to take it in for repair. The cost of the repair is
similar to getting a new Mac. So this looks like the r
Hi,
I'm about to get a new and much bigger drive for my Time Machine backups. I'd
like to retain the backups I already have and move them all to the 1TB drive
I'm getting soon. If I just copy and paste the entire drive contents from the
route directory of the drive, and when I
You can access the files within your time machine if you mount the disk on the
left hand side you'll get the dates. If you press L for latest, then vo right,
you will see all your latest files. Then you find the file and copy rather
than cut and paste. When done, you can erraise the time mach
Hi.
I had to do that recently and am very happy with my time machine backups.
Kawal.
On 9 Oct 2010, at 16:26, Ray Foret Jr wrote:
> Just thought I'd post this, as I thought perhaps it might be useful to know.
>
> If memory serves, someone here was asking about recovery
regular finder procedures which which you are already familuar. Once
you've opened the disk where your Time Machine backups are stored, (use command
O for this), you will noticed that there is a backups.upd folder. Inside this
folder, you will see an image of your Mac hard drive and it
Ray,
When you say you went into your time machine disk, did you do that via time
machine itself? Or did you access the disk directly without going through TM? I
ask because, while I did manage to recover a specific folder a while back, it
took sighted help to do so, as going via time machine, th
Just thought I'd post this, as I thought perhaps it might be useful to know.
If memory serves, someone here was asking about recovery of individual folders
or files from Time machine backups. This person, if I recall correctly, did
not want to restore their entire system back to any parti
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