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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Slydude" data-source="post: 1771025" data-attributes="member: 131855">I can't think of an easy fix for this other than to format the Time Machine drive and start over with new backups. I think that by deleting files from the backups yourself has destroyed the structure of the backups. Somewhere among the files in the trash there is probably an original / unmodified file that has numerous links to it in subsequent backups. In other words Time Machine sees these files as being in use because they are part of the structure of the current backup. This is why every bit of Time Machine documentation I've seen comes to the same conclusion: Let Time Machine handle deletion of the files. This will happen automatically as space is needed.</blockquote>