Hi,
Time Machine told me I had to erase the files on my external hard drive and I had to put them in trash, so, I did and it is deleting 55,000 files (Old Time Machine backup) and now it's going into negative numbers?!
What's happening?
Is there another way I can delete the back up?
MacBook Air (Late 2008), Mac OS X (10.7.4), Running Lion
It is advised that you keep Time Machine backups on a dedicated partition. This is so in the event you want to erase the file(s), it is a simple task of re-formatting that particular drive partition.
If you don't do this, the fastest way may mean moving or copying the other, non-Time Machine files to another partition (at least temporarily), then reformattting the drive partition with the Time Machine files.
Yes, I have been down this road. It is one heck of a pain to erase TM backup files. It must be a/the reason Apple says to NOT use Finder to manage Time Machine backup files.
It is advised that you keep Time Machine backups on a dedicated partition. This is so in the event you want to erase the file(s), it is a simple task of re-formatting that particular drive partition.
If you don't do this, the fastest way may mean moving or copying the other, non-Time Machine files to another partition (at least temporarily), then reformattting the drive partition with the Time Machine files.
Yes, I have been down this road. It is one heck of a pain to erase TM backup files. It must be a/the reason Apple says to NOT use Finder to manage Time Machine backup files.
Hey,
Thanks for the answer.
Helped a lot, I'll make sure to never delete the files unless I re format the drive.
Anyways, it ended up deleting...
Trash going into negative?
