when deleting old time machine backups to free up space on backup drive, it takes days to empty trash. Why? Any way to speed up?
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 11.5
Are you perhaps deleting them in the Fonder rather than within TM?
If so you'll have to erase your TM Drive ^ start all over.
No. Time Machine will manage its own backups. There is nothing that you need to do. Time Machine automatically makes hourly backups for the past 24 hours, daily backups for the past month, and weekly backups for all previous months. The oldest backups are deleted when your backup disk is full.
yes; i delete files in finder. Should i be deleting backups in the time machine? Is there an instruction for this? Thanks very much. I appreciate your help.
muguy is correct, but occasionally TM doesn't do what it is supposed to do...
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when deleting old time machine backups to free up space on backup drive, it takes days to empty trash. Why? Any way to speed up?
