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my backup disk is saying full, i thought it would delete my oldest to make room

I have a seagate external backup disk. I have deleted all of my old files, but it will still not backup.

MacBook Pro 13", macOS 10.13

Posted on Feb 21, 2019 8:55 AM

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Gulp, not sure I've seen a fix for this without reformatting the drive & starting over.


But if you want to try to fix it & haven't emptied the trash yet...


Turn off Time Machine, try Putting back the files you trashed, then enable TM again and...


http://www.baligu.com/pondini/TM/12.html


Posted on Feb 21, 2019 9:27 AM

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my backup disk is saying full, i thought it would delete my oldest to make room

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