Hello, first time Mac user. I recently purchased a macbook pro new and have been learning and messing around with it for a month now. Running Sierra and have a question about Time Machine backups. I have been performing backups since day one. Yesterday I downloaded a rather large file, 5gigs, and this morning moved that large file to another hard drive. I went back to my backup hard drive and deleted the backups that contained this large file, to save space. I attempted to delete the backups from the Trash and as you know, but I didn't at the time, cannot do this. It tells me cannot delete as "Macintosh HD is in use".
I attempted to restore the deleted files, but am unable to locate this option. What would be the suggested technique to either delete the backup files or restore them.
Thank you for your assistance. Oh, and to answer a probable question, I like the Macbook and the Mac OS.
Upon further research of the files in the Trash, they are pretty much empty, just listing the Library folder with the com.apple.Boot.plist inside.
I attempted to restore the deleted files, but am unable to locate this option. What would be the suggested technique to either delete the backup files or restore them.
Thank you for your assistance. Oh, and to answer a probable question, I like the Macbook and the Mac OS.
Upon further research of the files in the Trash, they are pretty much empty, just listing the Library folder with the com.apple.Boot.plist inside.
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