Re: Time Machine: "Oldest backups are deleted when your disk becomes full."

From	J Burns <burns4@nowhere.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Time Machine: "Oldest backups are deleted when your disk becomes full."
Date	2014-04-28 16:40 -0400
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<ljmec6$46c$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References	<260420140059398443%star@sky.net>

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On 4/26/14, 12:59 AM, Davoud wrote:
> That's fine by me. I'm a backup paranoid after losing a WordStar
> document from my Osborne I in 1982.
>
> But it appears not to be working. TM says it can't backup because the
> disk is too full. Based on the quote in the title, I expected it would
> delete old backups to make room and go about its business.
>
> What don't I know?
>
> TIA!
>
What exactly does it say?  Sometimes when the big print says the disk is 
full, the fine print says it isn't because Time Machine deleted some old 
files.

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Time Machine: "Oldest backups are deleted when your disk becomes full." Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2014-04-26 00:59 -0400
  Re: Time Machine: "Oldest backups are deleted when your disk becomes full." Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2014-04-26 01:21 -0400
  Re: Time Machine: "Oldest backups are deleted when your disk becomes full." David Ritz <dritz@mindspring.com> - 2014-04-26 17:19 -0500
  Re: Time Machine: "Oldest backups are deleted when your disk becomes full." dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2014-04-27 11:15 +1200
    Re: Time Machine: "Oldest backups are deleted when your disk becomes full." Tom Stiller <clusterfux.upmon@gmail.com> - 2014-04-27 00:01 +0000
    Re: Time Machine: "Oldest backups are deleted when your disk becomes full." nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-04-26 20:04 -0400
    Re: Time Machine: "Oldest backups are deleted when your disk becomes full." Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2014-04-27 21:26 -0400
  Re: Time Machine: "Oldest backups are deleted when your disk becomes full." J Burns <burns4@nowhere.com> - 2014-04-28 16:40 -0400

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