Why won't Time Machine overwrite/delete files to make room for new backups?
I can't imagine your average user has a 10TB hard drive. So when I have a 500GB HDD and 'only' a 1TB external HDD for backups, it would make sense for Time Machine to recognise that and help me out by not expecting to be able to make multiple COMPLETE backups of my system to a drive that could only fit 2 x full backups on it, but rather incrementally back up files that have changed.
So to my question: when trying to back up my 500GB system to a 1TB external drive, why is Time Machine refusing telling me "There isn't enough space on TimeMachine" instead of doing what it purports to do by deleting the oldest backup to MAKE space?? Do I really have to manually delete my entire backup and then perform the entire backup again? That doesn't seem very "it just works". Or did that mantra die out with Steve??
MacBook Pro 13", macOS 10.13