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

Javier Henderson javier at kjsl.org
Thu Jul 21 14:05:52 EDT 2011


On Jul 21, 2011, at 1:56 PM, Dick Kriss wrote:

> 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.   

Keep in mind that only one copy of a given file is kept in a Time Machine backup saveset. It may appear in multiple directories, but that's done through links.

-jav


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