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How to delete existing time machine back ups on venturaOS?

Having set up Time Machine - in VenturaOS - I was not given any options to exclude certain folders during the set up process. I ended up backing up a whole lot more for which I did not have space on the drive allotted for the same.


I want to set up the Time Machine afresh, however forgetting the disk does not erase the old back up nor can I see the back up on that disk however the space seems to have been taken up already. Any help in restoring the space in the drive and setting up a fresh Time Machine back up would be helpful. Many thanks in advance.

Mac mini 2018 or later

Posted on Nov 8, 2022 9:50 PM

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Posted on Nov 9, 2022 3:40 AM

Sunilj10 wrote:

Having set up Time Machine - in VenturaOS - I was not given any options to exclude certain folders during the set up process. I ended up backing up a whole lot more for which I did not have space on the drive allotted for the same.

I want to set up the Time Machine afresh, however forgetting the disk does not erase the old back up nor can I see the back up on that disk however the space seems to have been taken up already. Any help in restoring the space in the drive and setting up a fresh Time Machine back up would be helpful. Many thanks in advance.


see if this gets you any further


Erase and reformat a storage device in Disk Utility on Mac

https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/disk-utility/dskutl14079/22.0/mac/13.0

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Nov 9, 2022 3:40 AM in response to Sunilj10

Sunilj10 wrote:

Having set up Time Machine - in VenturaOS - I was not given any options to exclude certain folders during the set up process. I ended up backing up a whole lot more for which I did not have space on the drive allotted for the same.

I want to set up the Time Machine afresh, however forgetting the disk does not erase the old back up nor can I see the back up on that disk however the space seems to have been taken up already. Any help in restoring the space in the drive and setting up a fresh Time Machine back up would be helpful. Many thanks in advance.


see if this gets you any further


Erase and reformat a storage device in Disk Utility on Mac

https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/disk-utility/dskutl14079/22.0/mac/13.0

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