Changing drive names and elimating unwanted drive backups

This will be a little complicated:
I recently changed my main drive's name from "Main HD" to "Mac Pro HD". I also added 2 internal drives: "Backup" and "Snow". 3 drives total. Plus my Time Machine internal drive. I just noticed that TM is no longer backing up "Mac Pro HD" and it started backing up "Backup" and "Snow".
I don't need backups of Backup or Snow and want to save the older "Main HD" backups and have TM start backing up "Mac Pro HD"
Can I delete all the folders via finder that have "Backup" and "Snow" in them?
and there are a couple backups that have "Main HD" and "Snow" in them. Can I delete "Snow" in those folders via finder?
This will delete folders back to 2009-10-19-111140.
If I set TM to ignore "Backup" and "Snow" in Sys Prefs and include "Mac Pro HD" will TM start backing up my one drive as of now and have a space in time to 10/19?
I bet I won't be able to access the old "Main HD" files via TM, but I'd at least be able to access them via finder if I ever find I need something and I'll do it manually.
Or do I have to erase my entire TM drive and just start all over again?

Steven Shmerler wrote:
This will be a little complicated:
I recently changed my main drive's name from "Main HD" to "Mac Pro HD". I also added 2 internal drives: "Backup" and "Snow". 3 drives total. Plus my Time Machine internal drive. I just noticed that TM is no longer backing up "Mac Pro HD" and it started backing up "Backup" and "Snow".
Yes, if you change the name of a drive, TM treats it as a new one.
Can I delete all the folders via finder that have "Backup" and "Snow" in them?
NO! Never move, change, or delete TM backups via the Finder. You can hopelessly corrupt your backups.
But you can delete all backups of selected items, via Time Machine. See #12 in the Frequently Asked Questions *User Tip,* also at the top of this forum.
To delete all backups of a drive, especially one that is no longer attached, start from a Finder window and press ShiftCmdC (or select your computer name in the Finder Sidebar). Then +Enter Time Machine+ and navigate to a backup. It will show one folder for each drive/partition that was backed-up on that run.
If I set TM to ignore "Backup" and "Snow" in Sys Prefs and include "Mac Pro HD" will TM start backing up my one drive as of now and have a space in time to 10/19?
Probably, if that's when you did the renaming.
I bet I won't be able to access the old "Main HD" files via TM, but I'd at least be able to access them via finder if I ever find I need something and I'll do it manually.
Unless you delete them as above, sure. Use the same procedure as above to view, restore, or delete (except you can't use the normal "restore" button, since the drive they were saved from isn't present. Select what you want, click the "gear" icon in the toolbar, and choose +Restore <item> to ...+ and you'll get a prompt for the destination.)
Message was edited by: Pondini -- you're on Leopard, so right-click won't work to restore to an alternate location; use the "gear" icon instead.

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