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Time Machine has deleted all backups except latest one?
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<blockquote data-quote="Alwyn" data-source="post: 1615925" data-attributes="member: 153944"><p>Interesting recommendation not to delete backups from Finder. I have never had a problem doing that selectively. Once the 1TB hard drive was full Time Machines (I have 2 1TB external hard drives in case one crashes) gave me the option to have the earliest backups deleted automatically and so I elected to allow that.</p><p></p><p>It does seem puzzling that you need so much space to do a backup. If you can't resolve the problem it might be best to erase the external hard drive and start again and buy a second one.</p><p></p><p>On advice on this forum I have installed Carbon Copy Cloner to save current OS as well as all its contents. This will ensure that, if your internal hard drive crashes, you will be able to restore everything. Time Machine doesn't store the OS only the files. You need an external hard drive that is the same size as the internal hard drive. If you're thinking of upgrading to Yosemite I strongly advise getting CCC or SuperDuper and back everything up.</p><p></p><p>By the way please put your MBP specs in your profile. It helps people trying to solve your problems.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alwyn, post: 1615925, member: 153944"] Interesting recommendation not to delete backups from Finder. I have never had a problem doing that selectively. Once the 1TB hard drive was full Time Machines (I have 2 1TB external hard drives in case one crashes) gave me the option to have the earliest backups deleted automatically and so I elected to allow that. It does seem puzzling that you need so much space to do a backup. If you can't resolve the problem it might be best to erase the external hard drive and start again and buy a second one. On advice on this forum I have installed Carbon Copy Cloner to save current OS as well as all its contents. This will ensure that, if your internal hard drive crashes, you will be able to restore everything. Time Machine doesn't store the OS only the files. You need an external hard drive that is the same size as the internal hard drive. If you're thinking of upgrading to Yosemite I strongly advise getting CCC or SuperDuper and back everything up. By the way please put your MBP specs in your profile. It helps people trying to solve your problems. [/QUOTE]
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