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Re: Leopard Time Machine: Delete Files or Folders from Backup | Mac OS X Leopard | Tech-Recipes

Klaus Huber — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:24:56 -0000

Thanks, now it`s all working perfect.

Greatings from Germany.

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qdideas — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:12:02 -0000

Klaus:

Before you enter Time Machine do the following:

1. Open a Finder Window
2. Click the View menu
3. Select Show Toolbar

Now enter Time Machine and you will see the gears.

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Klaus Huber — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:01:58 -0000

I can`t see the gears, what is wrong?

Greatings from Germany K. H.

Re: Leopard Time Machine: Delete Files or Folders from Backup | Mac OS X Leopard | Tech-Recipes

zahadum — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 03:27:59 -0000

hmm, too bad that it is not possible to selectively delete files from time machine ...

* all instances prior to a certain date;

* all instance in a range(s) of dates;

* all instances of a certain attribute ... such as size; or label (eg draft1, draft2 etc); or permission mask (ie ACL); or f-stop; or geo-tag; or comment; etc etc

as usual, apple takes a great idea & never finishes the proper execution of it!

... and because apple has not offered any OSAX support (for scriptable plugins) nor designed a proper API (for parametric control from the shell), there is no way for the user to implement the features they need extensibly or modularly ...

as is usualy with apple :-(

sigh.

Re: Leopard Time Machine: Delete Files or Folders from Backup | Mac OS X Leopard | Tech-Recipes

d2 — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:29:58 -0000

Did you try entering entering the starfield view, selecting the item to delete all backups of, telling Time Machine to delete all backups from the gear menu, EXITING THE STARFIELD VIEW, then typing your password in the pop-up window that remains popped up?

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CSims — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:39:36 -0000

Thanks a ton. That is the fastest tech answer I have found in some time!

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Diane Bechtler — Sat, 09 May 2009 18:07:09 -0000

it takes a longish time depending on what is being deleted and how big the files are. Previous system in my case. 10 copies

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Diane — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 17:27:54 -0000

I can't enter my password either. Guess it's time to wipe the drive and start over. <sigh>

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Jim — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:31:48 -0000

After following your instructions, it then asks for my password, but I can't type anything into that area. No curser, so I still can't delete pictures.
Jim

Re: Leopard Time Machine: Delete Files or Folders from Backup | Mac OS X Leopard | Tech-Recipes

TM Newbie — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:24:41 -0000

I forgot the word "delete", i.e. I tried to delete my back ups...

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TM Newbie — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:23:24 -0000

I tried to my back ups of Parallels XP from TM. The files disappeared in the Star Field view, but the free space on the disk did not change? Do I need to empty the trash somehow?

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micros — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 06:24:39 -0000

So after doing that, does it still have a backup of the most recent state of this folder, or is that one also removed?

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Franky — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:10:10 -0000

Thank you so much for that tip.

You are my hero :-)

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John — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 23:47:10 -0000

What if you do this, and nothing happens. I am trying to delete the movies folder from itunes, (it is huge and I manage another backup of it elsewhere) but it does not go anywhere. Nothing happens at all.

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Fred — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:36:50 -0000

Finally someone who can actually explain me how to do it! Puff, thanks a lot man!

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Resuna — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:49:23 -0000

Any way of getting this without going into the damn starfield view?

Re: Leopard Time Machine: Delete Files or Folders from Backup | Mac OS X Leopard | Tech-Recipes

A User — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 13:45:57 -0000

Thanks that's really helpful.
I was trying to right-click.