TimeMachine

[MoritzRock]

Hi All!!

A silly question that is not related to PT at all.. i am sure some of you have come across this and i don't seem to find an answer on the apple site..

I had a time machine backup on a drive and i have deleted the backup folder but have not retrieved my space... It happened to me previously and had to reformat the drive to clear the space.

Is there a way of clearing the space/deleting TM backups without reformatting?

Thanks in advance,

Mo

[Cliffy_Boy]

Empty the trash . The drive will not show freed space until you empty it

[MoritzRock]

Originally Posted by Cliffy_Boy

Empty the trash . The drive will not show freed space until you empty it

Oops! Forgot to mention I did empty the thrash, ...wish that would be the case... Emptying the bin does not free the space in this case.

Thanks for the reply though.

[Jeffrey Talbot]

Emptying the trash should do the trick unless you've aborted a TM backup in progress.. in which case I'm guessing all kinds of nasty things could happen.

You might try Tech Tool Pro on your drive to see if that helps.

I have trashed TM backups before, and have regained the disc space, so I know that it works.