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can someone tell me why time machine starts a completely new backup every two weeks and clears all of the old ones.
 
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M1 MacMini 16 GB - Ventura, iPhone 14 Pro Max, 2015 iMac 16 GB Monterey
That is odd. Roughly how large is the backup file and how much space is free on the Time Machine drive?
 
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09 MBP 8GB ram 500GB HD OS 10.9 32B iPad 4 32GB iPhone 5 iOs7 2TB TC Apple TV3
As Slydude mentioned and what size drive do you have in your Mac along with how full ?
The TM does a complete first time around followed by hourly,daily and weekly.
 
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My Macbook only has a 120GB drive, but the TM drive is 1TB and has only used about 20% of its capacity.
 

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