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Time Machine question

mickstupp · 2015-03-12 21:04:27

Hi! I've gotten a message since my backup disk is full, and the message is basically that for future Time Machine backups, it's going to delete the oldest backup to make room. Which is fine. But I clicked into a random backup and realised that I'd never set it up to exclude things like music and video folders. My question…

12-03-2015 10:04PM

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mickstupp

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Hi! I've gotten a message since my backup disk is full, and the message is basically that for future Time Machine backups, it's going to delete the oldest backup to make room. Which is fine.

But I clicked into a random backup and realised that I'd never set it up to exclude things like music and video folders.

My question is: can I delete a bunch of the larger files and folders from Time Machine backups, without those particular backups breaking somehow?

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#2 12-03-2015 10:06PM

Dtp1979

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Feck.
I thought you were gonna say you made a time machine

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#3 12-03-2015 10:12PM

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This might answer your question.

https://support.apple.com/kb/PH11241?locale=en_US

Ken

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#4 12-03-2015 11:09PM

mickstupp

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ZENER wrote: »

This might answer your question.

https://support.apple.com/kb/PH11241?locale=en_US

Ken

Thank you! That's great.

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