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I am trying to delete old time machine backups and there are photo files (.jpgs) that simply won't die. Even using terminal, unlocking their folders and adjusting everything to read/write, they won't go away. In terminal, I get:
override rw-r--r--
following by the address of the file and a question mark.
Any ideas?
Aside from Reformatting the drive, since the machine that was using the drive is no longer owned - would seem a better option.
That or purchase a new drive with at last 3x to 4x or more times the capacity of the computer that TM Backup is going to be setup on.
Aside from Reformatting the drive, since the machine that was using the drive is no longer owned - would seem a better option.
That or purchase a new drive with at last 3x to 4x or more times the capacity of the computer that TM Backup is going to be setup on.
i_buzz wrote:
I am trying to delete old time machine backups and there are photo files (.jpgs) that simply won't die. Even using terminal, unlocking their folders and adjusting everything to read/write, they won't go away. In terminal, I get:
override rw-r--r--
following by the address of the file and a question mark.
Any ideas?
Micro managment of this sort leads to corruption—
you can however
Erase and reformat a storage device in Disk Utility on Mac
Manually Deleting Time Machine Backup on external drive is a very risky business and not suggested.
One runs a risk of corrupting the index file TM Backup uses to keep track of what changes have occurred.
If the above does occur - one maybe left with not option but to Erase the Entire Drive and establish a new Time Machine Backup.
Let me clarify: I am trying to delete older backups from a different machine that I no longer own, but all the relevant files have been transferred so I want to really to fully delete it.
The drive is always this side of being full. I know that Time Machine automatically "makes room" by deleting older versions, but If I should not do this manually, how would I do it? And is there a way to limit the number of weekly backups that are saved?
At present, it seems like all I can do is start with a fresh drive because this one won't let me offload unused time machine backups.
Can't delete files, even in terminal.
