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Time Machine increasing size with deleted items?
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<blockquote data-quote="Slydude" data-source="post: 1630403" data-attributes="member: 131855"><p>Unless I'm misunderstanding the circumstances you describe that's normal due to the way Time Machine behaves. When you delete some files from your Mac they aren't deleted from existing Time Machine backups. </p><p></p><p>Lets as,e for a moment that your Time Machine backup starts at 30 GB (numbers aren't important they're just for argument sake). Over time, additional backups are made. The backups contain pointers to unchanged files as well as backups of new/modified files. When you delete some files from your Mac those files are still in the Time Machine backup until it starts to run out of space and needs to prune the backups a bit. </p><p></p><p>The backup file obviously continues to get bigger because other files are constantly being added to it. What exactly is your concern about the size of the backup?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Slydude, post: 1630403, member: 131855"] Unless I'm misunderstanding the circumstances you describe that's normal due to the way Time Machine behaves. When you delete some files from your Mac they aren't deleted from existing Time Machine backups. Lets as,e for a moment that your Time Machine backup starts at 30 GB (numbers aren't important they're just for argument sake). Over time, additional backups are made. The backups contain pointers to unchanged files as well as backups of new/modified files. When you delete some files from your Mac those files are still in the Time Machine backup until it starts to run out of space and needs to prune the backups a bit. The backup file obviously continues to get bigger because other files are constantly being added to it. What exactly is your concern about the size of the backup? [/QUOTE]
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