[Ham-Mac] Manual Deletion of Older OS X Time Machine Backups

[Dick Kriss]

On Jul 21, 2011, at 12:04 PM, Dave Wright wrote:

> There isn't really anything to delete…at least not that is easily accessible.  If you go into the Data folder on your Time Machine drive, you'll see the "sparse bundle" that contain all of your backups.  The sparse bundle is a single file that is similar in concept to the DMG files used by OS X, but that are variable and changeable in size.  You can't easily get into that file and just delete the old stuff…it doesn't work that way.
> 
> You're better off looking either a new Time Machine drive (the new 3TB models are NICE!), or simply continue letting Time Machine do what it does.
> 
> 73
> 
> Dave
> K3DCW

Dave,

Thanks…. I kind of figure that would happen.  I have a spare TM backup drive
and I may play around with it to see what happens.  I plan on erasing it to start
over with clean TM backup.  Stay tuned and I let you know what happens.  Worst
case the Disk Utility will let me reformat and start over with clean backup drive.

Dick AA5VU