Help! copied time machine backups 3 times!

bc008

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• May 7, 2008

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and i cant delete or cut each one. now i have a backups in my trash, on my desktop, and in my external.

i was just trying to delete everything, partition my drive, and start over.. how do i do that once i work this out?

 

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MM07

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• May 7, 2008

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Is the whole external drive for Time Machine?

I would just turn off Time Machine and reformat external drive.

 

bc008

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how do i delete the two backups.backupdb folders in my trash and desktop? they say they cant be deleted because of the bootx file...

also: just how DO i reformat the drive?

 

bc008

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figured it out.. i now have the following HD's

Internal: files, music, pictures important documents/apps etc
External: random pictures, downloaded icon sets, widgets etc, extra stuff
Time Machine: Backup of internal only

Thanks anyways!

 

bc008

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• May 8, 2008

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hmm i got it all down to 1 partition because it was messing up..
i let time machine reformat the drive, but now it says there was an error.

when i look in the time machine drive the backup.backupdb folder was created?? what is going wrong??