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10.5: Partially tame Time Machine's warping background
Authored by: robg on Nov 08, '07 07:13:00PM

I haven't been able to delete *anything* from a test TM backup -- even files in my own user's directory. I wrote an Automator script that basically did a secure delete of all copies of something from the TM disk. It worked great, except for the fact that it couldn't actually delete the files it found.

Working in Terminal, I even tried some sudo rm -rf's with no luck at all. Are you really able to freely delete things from your TM backup?

-rob.



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10.5: Partially tame Time Machine's warping background
Authored by: frgough on Nov 09, '07 09:14:46AM

Yeah.

Check the box Ignore permissions on external volumes. Navigate to the directory. Delete to your heart's content.



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10.5: Partially tame Time Machine's warping background
Authored by: robg on Nov 09, '07 12:40:34PM

Not possible on my TM drive. There's no such checkbox.

-rob.



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