Cannot remove old Time Capsule for time Machine destinations

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• can I remove the old time machine backups

  can I delete older backups time machine in car

  You can, but it is not recommended... and will be a long and tedious process with a very real risk that your entire backup file may be damaged. Is not worth the time and the risk in my opinion.

  Really, you have three options viable, listed in the order of most expensive on toward the bottom.

  (1) add a new time Capsule and begin to go upside backups... you keep your backups downside... you have to buy a new time Capsule

  (2) add a USB drive to your existing Time Capsule and start backups to go.   Upside down... you keep your old backups.  Downside... the USB will be slow compared to time in car Capsule.

  (3) clear your Time Capsule drive and start over with backups upside... no extra charge. Downside... you lose your backups.

• Cannot delete the Time Machine backups

  I have a MacBook Air and a 128 GB USB key that holds my library of photos, so I always make backups. My system - and I have recently made account how flawed it was - was to create backups on a 500 GB HARD drive, but to transfer them to a 2 TB HARD drive when it is full. So, I finally discovered that when I transfer backups in small quantities to the 2 TB, it takes more space because instead of aliases of files used to represent more recent backups, care of file just copied over and over again. For this reason, I put my 2 TB as a feature of time machine and imported all the old backups in the folder backups.db, that my Mac 'cleaned' and registered 135 GB. But 135 GB is not enough, I went and delete backups that I don't have anymore. When I looked in the trash to empty, I've seen 2 things: backups I have trashed and others who are pale sort out. I can't open the files, even if I right click and select "open in a new tab. When I try to "immediately remove" these paled-out files, I always get a message that they are "on duty." It is about 300 GB, so I must get rid of him. But it does not stop there, because when I try to "delete immediately" backups I had trashed myself, I get an error message! It is a total of about 600 GB, what I absolutely need to get rid of! If anyone has some tips, it will be greatly appeciated.

  You have probably sprayed your Time Machine backup database. The best thing to do is erase the disc with Airport utility. Then start again with a new backup.

  Good day.

• Remove the Time Machine backups in a certain amount of time

  I have an iMac in the House which is not backup because I have just updated to El Capitan, then now it says that the time Machine doesn't have enough space for a new backup (no doubt because my 200 + GB photo library moved to the new application Photos). Therefore, I need to get rid of some my time Machine backup. My MacBook Pro has almost 1 TB of backup files and I want to delete some, but I don't want to delete ALL my files backup, just in case I need something from him. Is it possible to delete the backups in a certain interval of time quickly, in order to keep all my backups and delete the 'old'? I know that you can delete the backups one by one, but the first backup of my MacBook was in 2014, and I don't want to have to go through 100 backups one by one to manually remove all the...

  Time machine records differences, so delete a backup may stop all your backups made subsequently. Here are some tips on how do it safely for ti:

  http://osxdaily.com/2015/07/27/delete-old-backups-time-machine-Mac/

  Make sure that you create the new full backup after the removal of the 'old'.

• Copy the old Time Machine files to the new disk TM

  Sorry people, I have to ask two (related) questions:

  (1) I have a WD My Passport for Mac drive connected to an Airport Extreme and 2 Macs use for backup via Time Machine. Now, the disk is full. I bought a WD My Book for Mac drive with a capacity of 4 TB and am ready to go.

  Question: can I copy the old files of Time Machine on my new book?

  (2) until now 2 different Macs used the My Passport as a Time Machine drive with no problems.

  Question: Should I partition the new drive (My Book) and every Mac uses its own partition as Time Machine or can proceed us as is?

  Thank you very much for your help!

  Question: can I copy the old files of Time Machine on my new book?

  Yes you can, but there is a lot of work, a little complicated, time consuming and not worth the effort for most users.  The main reasons for this are...

  (1) the older backups will take a good amount of space on the new drive, limiting the space on the disk again.

  (2) Time Machine backups for the old files will continue... it will make a new copy of every Mac and then go forward again with incremental backups.

  A better plan would be to keep the old drive on hand for a few months, in which case you need to go back and look for a file. After a few months, you will have a beautiful story from backup to the new hard drive and no need of older backups so you can remove the old disk and keep around as a spare part or use it for other purposes.

  Question: Should I partition the new drive (My Book) and every Mac uses its own partition as Time Machine or can proceed us as is?

  While you can partition the drive and save each Mac to a separate partition if you wish, there is really no need to do this since Time Machine will automatically create separate for each Mac backup files.

• I can't remove the time machine backups, I put it in the trash

  My backup disk is almost full, and I want to take on a value of years of backup files until I can get a new backup drive to perform other files that I want to keep. I tried their erasure of the finder inside the time machine, but nothing happened. I sent them to the trash, and they seem to have disappeared from my external backup drive, but are now stuck in the trash. I left the machine running all night to see that it says it cannot remove these files because they are locked. Can you please tell me what I should do now?

  Thank you

  Hello Suzanne,.

  Go to the trash and use "Put" place files back where they belong. Time Machine is designed to remove automatically the old backup when it is full.

• How to remove backups Time Machine to a specific drive

  I can't find how to better use Time Machine in my situation. Here is my configuration:

  I have a 6 TB external drive dedicated as a Time Machine backup. It backs up my internal drive as well as the three external drives (A, B, C). Player "A" is always connected and is constantly supported, but readers 'B' and 'C' are linked only from time to time to archive older files.

  I recently made a few changes on the disc 'B' and left connected so it was saved, but Time Machine tells me I don't have enough room... it seems he's trying to save the whole 1.3 TB of data rather than the 15 GB or if I've changed.

  I'd like to time Machine would be just delete old backups from the 'B' drive specifically, but except that, what I would do is manually delete older backups for just the "B" drive get rid of enough space to do a new backup, but I get an error when you try to delete the files off the backups. How can I get rid of backups for a specific player?

  Thank you!

  Visit Time Machine FAQ of Pondini helps with Time Machine. You will use the Time Machine application in your Applications folder for managing backups. There is an excellent explanation on the site linked above that explains how to remove backups or backup files.

• Old Time Machine back up is not recognized as such on my newly formatted mac

  Hello I have a mac pro 2009 edition, running on OS Yosemite

  I had an external HD to format Time Machine (TM), where I saved all my mac on. However I had to change my mac HD because it crashed and I installed a new SDS. I didn't recover all of my data on the new SSD, but I want to be able to access time machine to restore the items selected as iPhoto and iTunes. But when I plug my external, the computer reads as a regular external and I can't access it through TM and TM TM wonder to redefine a new external for backup of the TM.

  If I select my old external as the new external TM will erase all old backup?

  Is it possible that TM recognizes older externally as Time Machine back up? or is that, with each new HD, TM is new?

  Thank you

  If you now select this drive for Mac with the new HD files o the drive will be not changed/deleted.

  When you reinstall OSX and then try to use a TM backup you must first select this drive. What happens when you select this drive in the configuration of the TM and then try to restore the files through TM interface.

  See also:

  http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html

  Time Machine - Frequently asked Questions

• How to completely remove backups Time Machine from my hard drive internal?

  Accidentally, I chose my internal hard drive as a backup to the location for Time Machine. Now I use an external hard drive for this but somewhere on my drive hard it is a file left behind. I can't find! The problem is, I can't update my OS because it gives me the message "cannot be updated because the disk is used for TM backups.

  OS X - cannot install on a volume used by Time Machine for backups

• cannot restore from time machine

  MacBook pro 10.11.3 time machine backup data of the computer but cannot restore when entering time machine.

  When you select an item and click on restore, nothing happens?

  What you save up to? Some may not restore from a NAS device.

• Cannot empty completely Time Machine of the items in the Recycle Bin

  Because Time Machine doesn't seem to be saved compensation older to make room for the news more I get a message that the disc is full. I tried to put an older Mt recorded in the trash folder. After a long workout he finally dumped all but a bit empty folders (2016-01-02 010502 > Macintosh HD > Applications). Now whenever I try to empty the trash, I get a message that these items are in use.

  I tried pressing cmd-Shift while emptying and several different Terminal commands (such as the cd ~ /.) Trash; rm - rf *) without result. It's a minor annoyance, but I would like to get these messages every time that I try to empty the trash.

  BTW, this didn't help my problem of Time Machine. It is not yet back up some.

  See if point # 12 will help:

  http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html

• Cannot retrieve disc Time Machine [UPDATE NEEDED] because

  Hello

  I have a Macbook Pro with OSX El Capitan.

  I have an external hard drive with a bunch of set with time Machine backups and I want to do a restore of this disc. I've always been able to restore it by booting the computer while pressing the option key and select the disc, where it would take me to an options panel where I could start the recovery process.

  But when I try to access this disk now, it shows me a login with a user page called "[UPDATE NEEDED]." What should I do to skip this step? How can I make this work?

  Thanks in advance

  The backup volume is encrypted. To start off, you must enter the encryption password, which is stored in your keychain. Launch the Keychain Access application and looking for it under the name of the backup volume.

• Cannot set a specific repository for a machine

  I tried many ways to change/set a specific repository for a specific computer and it always goes back to the original.  I removed from the basic machine (saved restore points) and created a new repository. When I added the rear machine automatically resumed inside the restore points, etc. and back have been started.

  I removed again (guarded restore points), pushed the agent to the machine and selected the new repository and he said the agent on this computer is the same as the agent on this computer and reset it with the changes. Rebooted the machine.  However, he still picked up points of restoration on the core and attached to the old repository.

  I tried a total of 5 different ways to get this machine to see a new repository, but no luck.  The only thing I did is remove the machine & points of restoration out of the nucleus and the Constable and I tried.   Archiving is a joke to say the least and takes 20 hours to around 2.2 to has failed or * the rest of the system (as he did last night).

  I used several different backup systems, but AppAssure is by far the worst, slower and less reliable I've seen.  Even my old band system Veritas has been 100% reliable and I spent less time to manage.

  I'm only protect three machines on it so it can't be that difficult.  Any thoughts?

  Thank you. Russ

  Hi Russ,

  AppAssure has a relationship one between the agent and the repository.  You can have data from an agent in a repository at the same time.  Because Wes pointed out you can follow this KB support.software.dell.com/.../117750 . to migrate from the agent and he gave repo from one to the other.

  There is another option to move an agent to a new repository.  You can change the Unique ID of the Agent and then restore it.  By doing this, the kernel will see it as a new agent and allow you to define any repository on your heart, as is the master repository.  If you take this approach, you can keep the old restore points for the agent in the first repository and have all new backups to go to the new repository. Please note that you can never match these two sets of recovery points together once again, because the kernel identifies as a different agent data.  Then they will be displayed always separately.

  To make this change:

  1. Change the display name of the current agent to something different (usually I just add - old for it)
  2. Stop the agent service
  3. On the agent, remove the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\AppRecovery\Agent\AgentId registry key
  4. Start the agent service and the registry key and the subkeys will be regenerated
  5. Run the wizard of protection on the basis of protecting agent and be sure to select the right repository
  6. Delete the former agent of protection and keep the recovery points
  7. You have now - former agents like recovery Points only and agent under protection.  A new base image is taken as there is still no data for this agent, but once the base is taken all subsequent backups should be incremental.

  As for your statement about archiving is a joke, I would need to learn more about your configuration to make a statement. What storage do you use for your storage space?  What speed, the size and the number of disks are used?  What RAID configuration? Is it directly attached, NAS or CIFS? Personally, I always found AppAssure as reliable when repository storage is reliable.  Regarding speed, AppAssure runs how fast on your database server resources are capable. I saw TB of data archived in just a few hours.  I've also seen take days.  It depends on the material used.

  Tim

• Cannot remove old software of Control Panel /programmes.

  I have an old version of Family Tree Maker on one of my computers and when I try to remove the program, it seems to be a missing file and give me a stop

  "An installation support file could not be installed. The system cannot find the specified file. »

  How can I get rid of this software?

  Thanks for trying. I did what I should have done before posting this problem, but maybe someone can learn from my ignorance. I went to the family tree and support in some of their Q & A's techniques I learned how to remove it manually.

• Can I remove old security updates for Windows Internet Explorer 7 and Windows XP out of my control panel to give me more space?

  In my control panel, I have about 50 updates to security of Windows Internet Explorer 7 and Windows XP.  Keep Microsoft sending me error messages saying that I need to delete some of my programs in my control panel, so my System Restore so that they are able to track or undo harmful replaces my e asking me to free more disk space by removing programs that I don't use.  Can I delete some old updates of security out of my control panel?

  Hi RamonaBrooks,

  No, you should not remove installed Windows updates as they are supposed to be there on the computer. In this case, you get low disk space messages, try the following.

  Method 1: Run this utility of automated troubleshooting and see if it helps.

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