Sunday, April 05, 2009

How to delete old time machine backups

How to Delete Individual Backups from Apple Time Machine « Psychohistory
One of those menu items is “Delete Backup”.

So, to delete a full backup, you just do the following:

1. Navigate to the date you want to delete. In my case, I wanted to delete my oldest backup, from 1/30/2008.
2. Navigate in the Finder window to your overall machine. In my case, it’s called “Powersmash G5″, where I have 2 internal drives that are backed up.
3. Select the “Gear” menu, and select “Delete Backup”
4. Enter the admin password for the Finder, if it asks.

My guess is that Apple wasn’t trying to make this hard - they are just suffering from a non-standard interface, and then an overloading of that “gears” menu, which I’m sure is theoretically supposed to be a “contextual menu”. For me, a menu that showed on on right-click of either the finder window itself or the Time Machine backup marker on the right would have been more obvious to me.

Hope this tip is useful to someone. It sure helped me today.


82 comments:

Costyn van Dongen said...

I have seen several pages online describing this procedure, but I can't for the life of me find the gear's menu.

Do I need to "Enter the Time Machine", where I can scroll back and forth in time? I do not have a toolbar where I can do actions there.

I'm so confused! I'm using an up-to-date Leopard, 10.5.6.

Costyn van Dongen said...

Ah never mind, I found it. Since I never use the 'Gears' menu I removed it from my toolbar. But now I've added it back and now I can delete backups! Yay.

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