Deleting old backups...

[guklein]

I use my TimeCapsule just for backups from TimeMachine.

But my TC is almost full. I want to delete the old backups. How can I do that?

Thanks!

 

[Dalton63841]

Time Machine automatically deletes the oldest backups as it needs to /once it runs out of space.

 

[guklein]

OK, I know...

But I want to delete all my backups from TimeCapsule. I need space for other things.

 

[EMKoper]

Ideas..

I don't know the 'real' answer to your question... but some ideas:

1. Delete the entire back-up... partition the TC to only allocate a fraction to your TC to the back-up process and the other part for usable storage space -- and then restart the TC back-up process fresh. I honestly don't know if you can do this with the way the TC media is mechanized, but I did this with a non-TC external before I bought a TC.

2. Don't do that at all, and spend ~ $40-50 for a second external drive. One of the features of the TC was your have long-term 'snap shot' in time of your files you have and once had. New storage is cheap ...

Good luck ..