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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bobtomay" data-source="post: 1631599" data-attributes="member: 24160">You would have had to delete that file from your internal drive for it to ever be deleted from the TM backup.  You knew it when you deleted the file from your internal drive.There is no potential of TM deleting a file from the backup that you did not already delete from the internal drive.  If you don't want TM to delete a file - you simply don't delete that file from your internal drive.There is potential of the drive you keep the TM backup on dying or other wise losing your data - but TM does not delete files that exist on your drive.While Time Machine does indeed provide for the possibility of recovering files you have deleted from the drive (go back in time), the TM application is for "backups".  Time Machine is not for storing files you want to keep but don't want on your internal drive any longer.  For that, you get 2 more drives - one for data storage of things you want to keep but don't want taking up space on your boot drive and the second to backup that storage drive.</blockquote>

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