Deleting a file in Time Capsule!

Question

Hi,
I bought my Time Capsule a few months ago and set it up with Windows XP Pro. I liked the idea as I could back up all my data but at the same time I can use it as a wireless router. TC worked great with Win XP Pro without any problems. However, a month ago, I updated my Windows laptop with a new MacBook Pro and set up TM with my TC. For couple of weeks it worked fine and it was backing up my files nicely.
Now, the problem is: After many TM backups I wanted to get rid of some files in my TC which was taking so much space and wasn't really needed. I located those unwanted files in to the Trash and emptied. The function seemed working fine but the problem is that the space which those files were taking are still allocated and no space is open after deletion. To be sure I tried to add and delete different files. Anything I add/backup takes space, but TC space is still allocated even after I empty the Trash.
Does anyone have a solution to this as all my TC space is getting allocated?

Answer 1

Yild wrote:
I access the Time Capsule by clicking on the Macintosh HD icon which is located on the Desktop, then choose My Time Capsule from the left pane of the screen under the Shared options. I could see all my manual back-up files and Time Machine back-up files. So, what I do is to drag and drop the file to the Trash and the system is asking for my confirmation to delete. Then I go to Trash and click on Empty, it takes a moment (depends on the size of the file) and the screen dialog shows that the file is being deleted. So I don't go to Finder and search for the file name, I locate the file myself...
I tried this on a few files manually by backing them up in to the TC and deleting them. All those files copied to the TC without any effort, however, when I delete them they get deleted but the space is not cleaned... Any other ideas to this problem?
As I referenced in my previous post, you should stop removing files this way. It may corrupt the backup and make it unreadable/unusable. You should use the Time Machine interface to remove files from the backups per my suggestions previously.
Also, I think that Apple should bring out a new firmware update for Time Capsule and Time Machine with an advanced optimization option, so the user could choose what to backup... Not everybody wants to backup every single program or file automatically, if I get a such choice I would make selections...
Well there is an option in the Time Machine preferences to exclude items from backing up.