Time machine backups

[whokuni]

I have been using my late 2013 MacBook Pro without much trouble and backing up to a 1T external hard drive using Time Machine. However, the backups there are now deleting themselves gradually and filling up my garbage box. When I go to try and delete them from there it takes for ever and ever. I see myself having to buy a much larger external drive. How do others cope with this kind of problem: e.g. several gb of deleted files holding the garbage box to ransom and preventing anything else from being deleted in the meantime. and what size do you use general for Time Machine backups. Or do you some other way of keeping a backup of your macbooks instead of Time Machine?

Thanking you,
Who kuni

 

[AZhappyjack]

I have been using my late 2013 MacBook Pro without much trouble and backing up to a 1T external hard drive using Time Machine. However, the backups there are now deleting themselves gradually and filling up my garbage box. When I go to try and delete them from there it takes for ever and ever. I see myself having to buy a much larger external drive. How do others cope with this kind of problem: e.g. several gb of deleted files holding the garbage box to ransom and preventing anything else from being deleted in the meantime. and what size do you use general for Time Machine backups. Or do you some other way of keeping a backup of your macbooks instead of Time Machine?

Thanking you,
Who kuni

I've been running TM to a WD Elements 4TB drive for my 512GB SSD iMac.

I've never deleted files manually... but have swapped out the old 2TB drive a while back with the 4TB drive, which I picked up on sale for about $110.

 

[whokuni]

Many thanks for that information. That was tossing up whether to leave the 1TB as is and go for something much bigger. It is a real pain when TM forces the older files into the delete box. Once again, thank you.