How to: Delete a Time Machine back up directory
Looking to free a big ol’ chunk of drive space? Is your Time Machine back up directory giving you grief and you’d just rather start over again? Here’s a quick and easy way to just make it go away.
Recently, I spent several frustrating hours trying to get my balky Time Machine back up directory to behave — it claimed I didn’t have the appropriate permissions to use it. Well, in the search for answer to solving that problem (Enter Time Machine -> select Use Previous Disk and/or rebuild Permissions using Utilities from your Mac’s System Disk), I also discovered a way to permanently delete said bag of hurt.
Here’s what you need to do:
1. Go to the Finder then enter Time Machine.
2. Navigate to the backup folder then click on the “cog wheel” on the finder bar and choose:
3. Select “Delete All Backups of …” (see image above)
See also: Topic : How do you delete a Time Machine created backup directory? (Apple Support Forums)
And that, as the nefarious “they” say, is that.
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November 16th, 2009
Oh my gosh! This is the simplest way to delete a Time Machine backup!!!! And that was right under my nose all this time!!!! I was looking everywhere how to delete this back up and voila! So easy!!!! Millions thanks!!!!! no need to fuss with the root disk and all this programming…