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    How to clean up Time Machine drive?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by evnhvn, Jun 14, 2010.

  1. evnhvn

    evnhvn Notebook Geek

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    I have a 1TB external but it's almost full. I have so many backups of Time Machine I made along the way, but I don't need all the Applications folders that have been copied a million times.

    What I want to do is consolidate my Movies, Music, Documents, and Photos folders from each partition and that's all I really need. The rest I can wipe so I can clear up half this drive for future backups and such.

    Thanks help please!
     
    evnhvn, Jun 14, 2010
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  2. doh123

    doh123 Without ME its just AWESO

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    it doesn't copy things a million times... and it will start replacing older files when the time passes. It only backs up changes.
     
    doh123, Jun 14, 2010
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