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

[Dick Kriss]

On Jul 21, 2011, at 12:36 PM, Dick Kriss wrote:

> On Jul 21, 2011, at 12:27 PM, Stan Horzepa wrote:
> 
>> Hi Dick,
>> 
>> I've done it and had no problem.
>> 
>> Here is a good tutorial on Time Machine: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1427
>> 
>> About 2/3 of the way into the tutorial, it describes how to do it.
>> 
>> Stan, WA1LOU
>> 
> 
> Stan WA1LOU
> 
> Thanks for the tip.  What I planned to do would have made a mess but the Apple
> Article you referenced shows the correct  procedure. Note the Important footnote.
> 
> Thanks for referencing the how to article.
> 
> Dick AA5VU
> 
> ------- Leached from Apple Article HT1427 ------
> 
> Deleting data from a Time Machine backup
> 
> To delete all backups of one or more items from a Time Machine backup, follow these steps:

The Kicker or Catch-22 are the key words in the first line "...To delete all backups of one or more items" and that means you can delete ALL copies of specific files in all of the backups.  I was
wanting to delete all files on a given date and that will not work.   

I can see where the procedure could buy you some elbow room if you had all kinds of movies 
stored and you also have them on another backup drive. Then selecting all of the movies would delete them from the TM backup.  

Dick AA5VU