time machine, not the size hourly backups

I've been running Time Machine on a large partition of a hard drive external backup since June 2012.

I noticed a week ago about 13 December 2015, the TM backup used disk space faster. I found that TM was maintaining all hourly backups since November 1, 2015. It was delete no, he wasn't going to the daily or weekly. So I have every hour Nov. 1 to Dec. 20 (so far) of backup 2015. No idea why started from that date either.

I then ran disk utility to repair the TM and initially found some mistakes (which I had not), but repaired OK.

A few days later, I ran THE NEW and confirmed drive was OK.

I deleted library/preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist and then configure TM again via system preferences. He backed up in the right place but still retained all of the hourly backups.

I created a small TM backup on another partition of the external hard drive for 36 hours. He kept one then deleted backups older than 24 hours. Just as it takes.

I put back to elements of TM and original score, but even once he kept keep all backup schedules.

I started in safe mode, run TM without change.

I would like to than TM fix/delete all backups hours/then every day as it should be past or in the future.

All solutions other than 1. manually remove the redundant backups via 'Star Wars' or 2. leave full to have to buy another external hard drive.

I have a mini PPC running 10.5.8. The backup of my hard drive is about 58 GB, the partition on the HDD is 385 GB with 22 GB of spare right now.

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