![]() ![]() I'm glad to here it works, in principle, but so far it has not seemed to work for my 73 GB backup. but no box appears in order to type my password. Ive tried to move the file back on to my external HD (the one i use for timemachine ), a message comes up saying u must authenticate the file. i press empty trash and its prepares it but then an error message occurs saying "cannot delete file as Users in use" Hi, ive got some serious issues with time machine now.Įrm basically i tried to delete a 3 large backup file by drag and drop into trash, which seemed to work for two of them. Instead people are ending doing all sorts of crazy things when there is an easy way to do it. Just reading this and having stumbled upon ways to do certain things in Leopard, makes me think that it is a bit remiss of Apple not to have all these things documented for easy viewing on the net. Also, when using the actions menu, with a file or folder selected there is an option to delete all instances of the file/folder from all backups. ![]() Navigate to the backup you want to delete and use the actions menu in the Finder toolbar. Go to the top level i.e the one with your HD. There may be a really easy way to do this. Its been about 30 minutes and there's been not reported increase in disk space. BTW I am currently trying to use Time Machine to delete all the file but that is taking FOR EVER and I'm not sure its actually doing anything. I'm also thinking this is why rm won't work - multiple hard links?Īny unix guru out there that can help? I really don't want to re-format the disk. I note that 'ls -l' shows a lot of with the sign at the end and I'm assuming that this is a hard link, but I don't know. It wouldn't let me remove them getting the error 'Operation not permitted'. So I'm content to start over and I went to /Volumes/Backupdisk/Backups.backupdb and tried 'sudo rm -rf *' to get rid of the existing backups in preparation to start over. I've moved disks around on my network and TIme Machine doesn't seem to remember that it's backed up a given system to a given disk previously, after moving the disk to a different server. I'm lost in trying to delete the backup directories created by Time Machine.
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