Im using timemachine (TM) and everytime i wish to delete big files, i open TM and delete the backedup file too. Im doing this in order not to leave deleted files in the backup, so i can reduce the space in the drive that is used by TM. Pretty frustrating when doing it with many files... so i wonder is this really necessary or does TM delete those deleted files and cleans them by itself?
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does TMachine delete deleted files?
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Time Machine automatically prunes older backups. You really shouldn't need to go into Time Machine and delete files.
That sort of defeats the purpose of TM backups. If you decide that you've deleted something from your Mac that you subsequently decide that you need it, you can't get it back from TM if you've deleted it from the TM backup.
If you delete something from your Mac, TM does not delete it from its backups. Again, that would defeat the object of having a TM backup.
I know that. My point stands. The large will be deleted along with the older backup. What you are doing is not very practical.
Well don't worry about space on your TM drive. As TM runs out of space it will just delete the oldest backups. Plus you could always get a bigger drive.
I have 1TB Hard attached to Mini 2018 and I created 2 partitions, 500GB each. One partition is for torrents, the other is TM. I don't care if there is any space or not because older ones are deleted. What you're trying to do is not practical to me.