I recently dragged the oldest backups into the trash and caused chaos, I had to use apple care for the first time and had to start all over again as i had trashed the first backup and blocked up the trash!!
I think there is a proper option for doing this but i am not the person to tell you about it!!!!!!
Thats interesting, I tried something called super empty trash and then could not get rid of that either.Download MacPilot or Onyx- both have a "force empty trash" option which does just that even with multiple time machine backups in the trash. I saved loads of disk space this way
The proper option is to just let Time Machine take care of itself. If you want free space on an external disk then you should have partitioned it.
Can you partition a Time Capsule?
I recently dragged the oldest backups into the trash and caused chaos, I had to use apple care for the first time and had to start all over again as i had trashed the first backup and blocked up the trash!!
I think there is a proper option for doing this but i am not the person to tell you about it!!!!!!
Haha I did this too. DONT do that!
Like people said, Time Machine will delete your oldest backups when it needs the space. But if youre using the HD for other things than just Time Machine, you might want to manually delete some backups to make space.
Despite what people are saying, there is a simple and proper way to do it. Enter Time Machine, go to the backup you want to delete, click the action button (this guy View attachment 197790), and click Delete Backup. Youll just have to type in your admin password then. So simple, its easy to miss.
Uh boy...Yeah I did eventually find that ... only problem is that it is rather time consuming to have to individually delete 60 backups...