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No Time Machine in Yosemite
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<blockquote data-quote="bobtomay" data-source="post: 1628211" data-attributes="member: 24160"><p>It can't appear as if all your backups have been deleted and at the same time show dates going back 4 years and 22 GB free out of 500.</p><p></p><p>I would suspect TM is trying to create a new backup rather than adding to the existing backup.</p><p>It will not delete old backups it sees as belonging to one computer to make room for a backup of another computer. </p><p></p><p>"Assuming" you have everything on your computer you want on it with no reason for having multiple years worth of backups - I'd recommend a new format of the external drive and start TM over again with a fresh backup. I erase and do fresh TM backups about once a year due to the size of my TM backups.</p><p></p><p>There's not anywhere near enough info to deal with "I tried to delete all files in movies but nothing happened".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bobtomay, post: 1628211, member: 24160"] It can't appear as if all your backups have been deleted and at the same time show dates going back 4 years and 22 GB free out of 500. I would suspect TM is trying to create a new backup rather than adding to the existing backup. It will not delete old backups it sees as belonging to one computer to make room for a backup of another computer. "Assuming" you have everything on your computer you want on it with no reason for having multiple years worth of backups - I'd recommend a new format of the external drive and start TM over again with a fresh backup. I erase and do fresh TM backups about once a year due to the size of my TM backups. There's not anywhere near enough info to deal with "I tried to delete all files in movies but nothing happened". [/QUOTE]
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