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<blockquote data-quote="RadDave" data-source="post: 1810881" data-attributes="member: 234411"><p>Well, just an update especially for those who may be going through the same decisions as brought up in previous posts - last night I worked on the old HD TM BU of my MBPro - backups going back to 2013 - reviewed comments in this <a href="https://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/mac-software/time-machine-backup-full-3676839/" target="_blank">Recent Article</a>, suggesting that old BUs could be deleted using Finder - well, I deleted 3 years (2013-15) on the old drive - checked its storage which did not seem to change much? Next, ran Disk Utility 'First Aid' and after a half hour stated the drive was OK, but again half the 1TB space was still 'used' - ran TM which seemed to work - after doing a 'new' TM BU to my Samsung 500GB SSD (which just used about 100GB), I decided to simply reformat the old HD - I have the older years on my other TM drive, plus don't really need the dated info.</p><p></p><p>SO, my next 'challenge' is the 1TB Buffalo Thunderbolt HD on wife's iMac - only 300+GB left (BUs date to 2013 from an old transfer in 2015) - plan to replace w/ my new 1TB Glyph HDD - again would like to just 'pare down' the old TM back to say half its size but seems there is not an easy and quick solution, i.e. delete w/i TM, use the TMUtil in the terminal, or other? The old HD is showing a problem on DriveDx - any thoughts? Thanks - Dave</p><p>.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]29072[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RadDave, post: 1810881, member: 234411"] Well, just an update especially for those who may be going through the same decisions as brought up in previous posts - last night I worked on the old HD TM BU of my MBPro - backups going back to 2013 - reviewed comments in this [URL="https://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/mac-software/time-machine-backup-full-3676839/"]Recent Article[/URL], suggesting that old BUs could be deleted using Finder - well, I deleted 3 years (2013-15) on the old drive - checked its storage which did not seem to change much? Next, ran Disk Utility 'First Aid' and after a half hour stated the drive was OK, but again half the 1TB space was still 'used' - ran TM which seemed to work - after doing a 'new' TM BU to my Samsung 500GB SSD (which just used about 100GB), I decided to simply reformat the old HD - I have the older years on my other TM drive, plus don't really need the dated info. SO, my next 'challenge' is the 1TB Buffalo Thunderbolt HD on wife's iMac - only 300+GB left (BUs date to 2013 from an old transfer in 2015) - plan to replace w/ my new 1TB Glyph HDD - again would like to just 'pare down' the old TM back to say half its size but seems there is not an easy and quick solution, i.e. delete w/i TM, use the TMUtil in the terminal, or other? The old HD is showing a problem on DriveDx - any thoughts? Thanks - Dave . [ATTACH=FULL]29072[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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