Clean up Time Machine

Is there any function to either automatically delete files of a certain age from time machine or to bulk delete ranges of files manually?


MacBook Air 11", 10.15

Posted on Jan 30, 2020 8:52 AM

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Posted on Jan 30, 2020 9:22 AM

No. Time Machine looks after itself and deletes the oldest backups when it needs the space. Whatever you do DO NOT fiddle with or try to manually delete any backups! Assuming your Time Machine disk is dedicated to Time Machine (ie. nothing else on the disk, just one TM partition) and is correctly formatted (Mac OS Extended (Journaled)...TM still doesn't work on APFS formatted drives as far as I know!) then TM looks after itself, there's nothing for you to do! Hope this helps you! Regards, Ian.

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Jan 30, 2020 9:22 AM in response to R_F_Priddy

No. Time Machine looks after itself and deletes the oldest backups when it needs the space. Whatever you do DO NOT fiddle with or try to manually delete any backups! Assuming your Time Machine disk is dedicated to Time Machine (ie. nothing else on the disk, just one TM partition) and is correctly formatted (Mac OS Extended (Journaled)...TM still doesn't work on APFS formatted drives as far as I know!) then TM looks after itself, there's nothing for you to do! Hope this helps you! Regards, Ian.

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