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Deleting Trash from Exernal Drive
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<blockquote data-quote="chscag" data-source="post: 1789081" data-attributes="member: 46727"><p>Sorry if you took it that way as it was not meant to be sarcasm. But we have had folks in the same situation as you who arbitrarily deleted files and folders from their Time Machine external backup drive and then placed the blame on Time Machine or Apple.</p><p></p><p>And yes, deleting the files prior to 2017 disturbs and upsets the integrity of the Time Machine backup flow. So in effect, the entire backup sequence would need to be started over. Consider this for a moment: How valuable is keeping backups prior to 2017? You may have a good reason for doing so, but generally backups kept for more than 6 months or so are usually less valuable than those that you made during the last month.</p><p></p><p>Also, if you have a clone backup (CCC or SuperDuper) that may be all you need. CCC effectively does the same thing as Time Machine if you set the cloning to archive files that it deletes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chscag, post: 1789081, member: 46727"] Sorry if you took it that way as it was not meant to be sarcasm. But we have had folks in the same situation as you who arbitrarily deleted files and folders from their Time Machine external backup drive and then placed the blame on Time Machine or Apple. And yes, deleting the files prior to 2017 disturbs and upsets the integrity of the Time Machine backup flow. So in effect, the entire backup sequence would need to be started over. Consider this for a moment: How valuable is keeping backups prior to 2017? You may have a good reason for doing so, but generally backups kept for more than 6 months or so are usually less valuable than those that you made during the last month. Also, if you have a clone backup (CCC or SuperDuper) that may be all you need. CCC effectively does the same thing as Time Machine if you set the cloning to archive files that it deletes. [/QUOTE]
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