Thanks for your thoughts folks, much appreciated Or is it time to give Time Machine the push? but I don't want to end up with a useless back up. I'd really appreciate any further suggestions, as it's annoying to have to do this every week or so! Should I risk manually deleting old files manually? That'd be quicker and less destructive of recent backups than starting over everytime.
And Time Machine doesn't seem to be handling the the old backups itself So starting over doesn't seem to give the happy ending it did on the other thread. I've done this twice now with the same result
and for a while all is good - then the message comes back after a week or so.
re-formatting the backup drive and making another time machine copy. I understood that Time Machine was supposed to manage deleting the oldest data by itself? I have seen advice on other sites to manually delete the oldest files on the backup disk, but also came across dire warnings from a respected member against doing that ( )īut I've tried the advice there. I've started getting the 'Backup failed There isn't enough space on 'BackupDrive' Message I'm using a 1gb usb drive to back up via time machine a 2012 MacBook Pro 13' with a 500gb ssd running Catalina 10.15.4
