How can I delete the backups of my imac, that are stored on my macbook air.

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How can I delete the backups of my imac, that are stored on my macbook air.

I wanted to transfer a folder (of 5 gigas) from my iMac to my macbook air (both running Lion OS) using a thunderbolt cable, so I started my macbook air on target disk mode (by starting it up while holding the key T) and on my iMac I went to the time machine utility, switched it on and selected the disk from the macbook air, I selected the folder, copied it to my macbook air's dekstop, the whole process took me less than 2 minutes. I disconnected the cable, turned the macbook air on and the folder was in the desktop as I wanted, however, it was created automatically a backup of my iMac on my macbook air. So now I am kind of lacking space and I want to delete the backup, but unfortunately, I can't find the backup on my macbook.

MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.5)

Posted on Oct 14, 2013 2:23 PM

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Oct 14, 2013 4:37 PM in response to MFGM

Go to Finder > go > all my files ..... arrange by "date added" to find the latest redundant data brought over to your Air for removal.

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Oct 15, 2013 1:50 AM in response to PlotinusVeritas

Thanks for your answer, but the files don't appear there, not even the folder I transfered...

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Oct 15, 2013 1:58 AM in response to MFGM

.....and the name of the folder?

press Command-F in the Finder to bring up a Finder search, and then click the plus button to the right of the search window to add a new filter. Then select "other" in the first drop-down menu to assign new filters, followed by adjusting them

Once completed, you can then search for a keyword, such as a file name.

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Oct 15, 2013 11:38 AM in response to PlotinusVeritas

This helped me, I found there my folder and a backupfile which was interrupted (1gb of size), still have 32 gigas of backups and still can't find them...

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Oct 15, 2013 11:57 AM in response to MFGM

if you have a time machine backup for your AIr, you can roll it back to before the migration,.... then correctly migrate over ONLY the data you meant to transfer. 😊

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Oct 15, 2013 12:04 PM in response to PlotinusVeritas

Unfortunatly I don't have any backup.

When I checked the storage of my macbook air appear "backups" : 32,8 gigas, the mackbook air is recognizing it has a backup so it must be stored in a special way I guess...

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