Can I delete files after TM backup? Please help!

I have about 100 GB of movies on my iMac and wanted to know if I can delete the movies off of my iMac after TM has successfully backed up my HD. This way I'll be able to free up some space on my iMac, and if I ever needed to get to a movie I could always restore it from TM. Will that work? Thanks!!!

I'm afraid the correct answer here is to buy another drive. You *could* use TM to recover historical data, but not a good idea. You *could* use a drive that you are depending on for backups for casual use, but also a bad idea. Part of the respect of the backup process, even though TM makes it easy to use, is investing in the right hardware for the job. In this case, that means getting yourself another drive or drive system for appropriate storage. Better yet, do you happen to have another computer that could be tasked as a file server? Not only can you use it as a repository for your movie files, but that machine could in turn serve the media back to other devices, such as Apple TVs, other laptops, or even play back the media w/o your laptop having to be involved in the process.

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I have some code associated with a Word Template. The template is opened, filled out and saved via a routing in vba. This all works fine in older 2007 version (which is version it was originally created in). Once this file is saved, the user can change the
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I hope I explained this well enough.
Here's the code that woeked in version 2007 but fails in version 2010.
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Dim CAPEX02 As MSForms.ComboBox
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Dim NetPath As String
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Dim OldPathNet As String
Dim DocName01 As String
Dim DocName02 As String
Dim DocName03 As String
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'I get file permission error here
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If DocName01 <> "" Then
If Not TestDocName = DocName01 Then
If Not TestDocName = "" Then
    MsgBox "Project Proposal Has Been Moved From Year " & TestDocName & " To " & DocName01 & ""
End If
End If
End If
TestDocName = DocName01
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Set filesys = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
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End If
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End If
End Sub
''''''Save Function''''''
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chkpath
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TextBox1.Enabled = False
TextBox3.Locked = True
TextBox3.Enabled = False
TextBox4.Locked = True
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mogulman52 and Don,
I went back and looked at my code and had already updated it to SaveAs in the new docx format. It still holds the lock handle in place until Word closes, unlike earlier versions which released the lock handle when you did a SaveAs.
As a note, all my Word and Excel macro-enabled (dotm & xltm) templates are read only and are never filled in, prompting the user for a file name on any close event or if they run the code gets auto-named. I do the SaveAs and concatenate the file name
from data on the document (or sheet) that has been filled in. During the SaveAs the docx gets saved to a network folder and also on a local folder. The lock gets renamed to the filename and remains until Word is closed.
So my code still fails at the point noted below while trying to delete an old filename version after the file has been saved as a new filename in a new folder. So....
The code is looking in the last folder where the docx file was saved for the older filename so it can be deleted. The newest docx version has already been saved in a different folder and has a new lock handle of its own. That lock is not my problem, it's
the older file lock which really exists in the same folder as the first filename that the docx was saved to. It does not release that lock until I exit Word. My work around has been to instruct all users to manually delete the older version file.
The other odd thing is this only happens when I run it from code, if you manually go through these steps with the SaveAs menu drop-downs in Word it will release the lock handle???
Hope this isn't to confusing and thanks for all your suggestions and help.
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End If
End If
If DocName01 <> "" Then
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End If
End If
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Glenn

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