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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1835853" data-attributes="member: 396914">You do NOT want to delete .inprogress files/folders. Those are the newest backup being held in place while TM rebuilds the links it needs. They will look large, again because Finder sees the links as files and reports the size of the file being pointed to, not the size of the link. So a 13GB folder may only be a couple of Mb, or even KB, depending on how many &quot;real&quot; files are in the .inprogress folder. And you don't send them to the Trash because they eventually become a TM backup. In short, never, never, never do any Finder activity inside the backups.backupdb folder. Only approach it through TM itself. BTW, Verify Backups is also greyed out on my MBP under Catalina. I've never used that function so I don't know what it is supposed to accomplish. TM backups, if you leave them to TM, are pretty stable. The fact you can navigate in the TM window and see what is &quot;in&quot; the backup is usually an indicator that the backup is valid.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1835853, member: 396914"] You do NOT want to delete .inprogress files/folders. Those are the newest backup being held in place while TM rebuilds the links it needs. They will look large, again because Finder sees the links as files and reports the size of the file being pointed to, not the size of the link. So a 13GB folder may only be a couple of Mb, or even KB, depending on how many "real" files are in the .inprogress folder. And you don't send them to the Trash because they eventually become a TM backup. In short, never, never, never do any Finder activity inside the backups.backupdb folder. Only approach it through TM itself. BTW, Verify Backups is also greyed out on my MBP under Catalina. I've never used that function so I don't know what it is supposed to accomplish. TM backups, if you leave them to TM, are pretty stable. The fact you can navigate in the TM window and see what is "in" the backup is usually an indicator that the backup is valid. [/QUOTE]

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