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bobbuilder33

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Dec 19, 2012
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Hey!

I deleted 3 of my oldest backups on Timemachine through finder, simply by CMD + deleting them. It was only just now that I saw that this is not the proper way to delete old backups. I’m using 10.6.8, it seems that many people have had serious problems doing this.. however, I had no problems at all. I also checked the next oldest backups in Time Machine any everything seems to be there. Question is, can I be sure that everything is actually there and that I haven’t messed up the Backups in any way? I’ve made subsequent backups and they are working just fine.. should I just carry on as normal or do you recommend I format and start the time machine backups from scratch to be sure? many thanks!
 
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