{"id":112,"date":"2008-09-12T17:25:54","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T22:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/installingcats.com\/?p=112"},"modified":"2008-09-12T17:25:54","modified_gmt":"2008-09-12T22:25:54","slug":"remove-backed-up-items-from-time-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/2008\/09\/12\/remove-backed-up-items-from-time-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Remove Backed Up Items from Time Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To get back disk space on your Time Machine Backup drive you can delete or remove backed up items from Time Machine permanently.<\/p>\n<p>First, go into Time Machine by clicking on the clock arrow icon in the Dock (top right hand corner beside your clock).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-113\" title=\"How to enter Time Machine from Dock\" src=\"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/time_machine_icon_dock-1.gif\" alt=\"How to enter Time Machine from Dock\" width=\"399\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then in Finder (with all the files and folders listed), click and highlight the item that you want to remove from your Time Machine backups.<\/p>\n<p>Next, click on the Gear icon at the top center of the window.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-114\" title=\"Finder Gear Button\" src=\"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/gear_button-1.gif\" alt=\"Finder Gear Button\" width=\"248\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And choose Delete All Backups of &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Time Machine will then proceed to remove all traces of the item from your backups.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a good idea to exclude this item from Time Machine <em>before<\/em> you perform this removal.\u00a0 If you don&#8217;t, the next time Time Machine runs, you&#8217;ll end up with this item again in your backups.\u00a0 Within the Preferences for Time Machine, click on the Options button.\u00a0 That will open a window with a list of &#8220;Do not back up&#8221; items.\u00a0 Clicking the Plus (+) button allows you to select files or folders that you wish to exclude from Time Machine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To get back disk space on your Time Machine Backup drive you can delete or remove backed up items from Time Machine permanently. First, go into Time Machine by clicking on the clock arrow icon in the Dock (top right hand corner beside your clock). Then in Finder (with all the files and folders listed), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[174,175,176,60,177],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}