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Time Machine cleanup

I have old time machine backups for a computer that no longer exists. How can I cleanly delete them from the external time machine disk?

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 12.3

Posted on Apr 9, 2022 7:30 PM

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Posted on Apr 9, 2022 8:03 PM

If they're on separate partitions, same method, just select the desired partition and Erase.


If they're on the same partition, you'll have to drag the appropriate Backups.backupdb folder to the trash and empty the trash. This will probably take a very long time.

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Time Machine cleanup

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