Deleting machines that aren't actually gone?

So we changed companies & domains at work and some of our machines were still pointed to the old Site Code info in their SCCM Client. The only way we were able to fix these was to run the CCMSETUP /UNINSTALL command and then go delete the SMS key
from the registry under HKLM/Software/Microsoft/SMS.
Once that was done I could repush the client from SCCM and it would install fine.
We're getting to the end of our list of machines to fix, but some of the machines are actually old and don't exist any more which is why they say No for having the client.
If I just take all the machines that say No and delete them out of SCCM completely, if any of them a really active machines, they will show back up on their own as everything refreshes through the system... right? Just wanted to see if I'm in
any danger if I delete an actual machine from SCCM and if it would then not show back up and would be a phantom machine of some sort.
Thanks.

Clients will never change their assigned site automatically and you don't have to uninstall the client in order to re-assign it. You can either push the new one or run a script to re-assign them (given that you did not use a GPO to assign the clients - if
so: you would have to clean up the registry first).
Deleted clients will be added again by heartbeat discovery (if they were already reporting to the new site).
Torsten Meringer | http://www.mssccmfaq.de

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dean83 wrote:
I recently got an ipod classic and a friend took it to put some music on it. I want to delete some of the songs but they aren't in my itues library and to sync the library would mean that I would lose all the music he downloades for me. How do I get around this??
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Hello RED430,
Welcome to the HP Forums!
I understand your Deskjet F4580 is printing blank pages. I will do my best to assist you! I would recommend following this entire HP document on Troubleshooting Print-Quality Issues.
Could you print a extended self test report from your printer to verify if you're receiving any color on this page. Please let me know on this post: (Source)
Make sure you have plain white, letter-size paper loaded in the input tray.
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Send Apple feedback. They won't answer, but at least will know there is a problem. If enough people send feedback, it may get the problem solved sooner.
Feedback
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Except an arrow turning in circle near the ''wireless'' or ''sound'' symbols on the top of the screen. If I click on it, I see ''enter time machine'', ''back up now'', ''open time machine preferences''.
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Having backed up my Iphoto (I checked if there's a folder in the machine with all my photos), can I now get rid of all my photos in the laptop so there's more space?
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Time Machine 1.1 sometimes deletes backups that should keep

About two years ago I was intrigued about the disparition of several Time Machine backups. After changing to a larger external backup disk, I've been trying to follow the behavior of Time Machine. Overall, it seems to be quite predictable, corresponding to what is explained in its window: mostly keeping hourly backups during 24 hours, then, from these, only keeping the first one in each day during 30 days, and then, from these remaining backups, only keeping one per week as "space" permits. Since the new backup partition is large (240% of the HD disk), it is still far from removing oldest backup(s) in order to free space. However, in my system, Time Machine has removed more backups, which should have been kept, in at least two occassions:
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Recently, and possibly related with heavy memory load giving 7 GB of swap, TM "got crazy" during two activations, deleting up to eight backups, both daily and weekly ones, which were far from being the oldest backups in the volume.
Has someone else observed this kind of behavior? What can be done to avoid it? If, as it seems, it is a bug in Time Machine, how can I notify Apple?
Since Time Machine seems to have a limit of 5 old backup deletions per activation, and given that occasionally strange (and dangerous) behavior, I think that Time Machine should warn when backups older than one month are deleted, and ask permission when 5 or more backups are going to be deleted (at least giving the user the possibility of configuring it so). We are talking here of data security, so some precautions should be allowed when destroying large quantities of data, which otherwise may not be recoverable.
The essential details follow:
Strings in recent system.log messages containing "deleted backup" (first & last groups are normal, there was no hourly backup to delete between them):
Oct 27 00:30:46 iMac com.apple.backupd[34391]: Deleted backup /Volumes/iMac HD Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/iMac/2012-09-27-002110: 120.20 GB now available
Oct 27 02:27:42 iMac com.apple.backupd[34677]: Deleted backup /Volumes/iMac HD Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/iMac/2012-03-22-232115: 132.85 GB now available
Oct 27 02:29:05 iMac com.apple.backupd[34677]: Deleted backup /Volumes/iMac HD Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/iMac/2012-04-06-000633: 143.17 GB now available
Oct 27 02:30:23 iMac com.apple.backupd[34677]: Deleted backup /Volumes/iMac HD Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/iMac/2012-09-28-002619: 146.29 GB now available
Oct 27 02:31:32 iMac com.apple.backupd[34677]: Deleted backup /Volumes/iMac HD Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/iMac/2012-09-30-004344: 149.48 GB now available
Oct 27 02:31:50 iMac com.apple.backupd[34677]: Deleted backup /Volumes/iMac HD Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/iMac/2012-10-03-000509: 152.58 GB now available
Oct 27 03:27:04 iMac com.apple.backupd[34860]: Deleted backup /Volumes/iMac HD Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/iMac/2012-10-08-001931: 155.64 GB now available
Oct 27 03:27:40 iMac com.apple.backupd[34860]: Deleted backup /Volumes/iMac HD Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/iMac/2012-10-14-003758: 159.26 GB now available
Oct 27 03:28:32 iMac com.apple.backupd[34860]: Deleted backup /Volumes/iMac HD Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/iMac/2012-10-22-002147: 162.48 GB now available
Oct 27 11:37:36 iMac com.apple.backupd[35839]: Deleted backup /Volumes/iMac HD Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/iMac/2012-10-26-104655: 153.98 GB now available
List of backups dates in the backup volume, and free space, taken from the terminal (after deletions: note that the backups marked in red should normally be kept):
iMac:~ admin$ ls /Volumes/iMac\ HD\ Time\ Machine/Backups.backupdb/iMac/
2011-10-01-061010    2012-05-31-093201          2012-10-20-002816
2011-10-09-005429          2012-06-07-002543          2012-10-21-021504
2011-10-16-001503          2012-06-14-005742          2012-10-23-004109
2011-10-23-002554          2012-06-21-001427          2012-10-24-002334
2011-11-05-001403          2012-06-28-001245          2012-10-25-002414
2011-11-12-004617          2012-07-05-002056          2012-10-26-002613
2011-11-19-000532          2012-07-12-002639          2012-10-26-012840
2011-11-26-000431          2012-07-19-005850          2012-10-27-012731
2011-12-03-000109          2012-08-05-002510          2012-10-27-032628
2011-12-10-003557          2012-08-12-002739          2012-10-27-042813
2011-12-17-002907          2012-08-19-005740          2012-10-27-052837
2011-12-24-001228          2012-09-03-110847          2012-10-27-062824
2011-12-31-002103          2012-09-10-123630          2012-10-27-113711
2012-01-07-005520          2012-09-17-002437          2012-10-27-123817
2012-01-14-000913          2012-09-24-002309          2012-10-27-133739
2012-01-21-005206          2012-09-29-011601          2012-10-27-143746
2012-01-28-000105          2012-10-01-001701          2012-10-27-153817
2012-02-04-022951          2012-10-02-010201          2012-10-27-163745
2012-02-12-210133          2012-10-04-000909          2012-10-27-173738
2012-02-24-002145          2012-10-07-112125          2012-10-27-183838
2012-03-02-002405          2012-10-09-001929          2012-10-27-193814
2012-03-09-003236          2012-10-10-002008          2012-10-27-203751
2012-03-16-002756          2012-10-11-001416          2012-10-27-213752
2012-03-30-014934          2012-10-12-004500          2012-10-27-223747
2012-04-19-004318          2012-10-13-012506          2012-10-27-233844
2012-04-26-012354          2012-10-15-003823          2012-10-28-011809
2012-05-03-003008          2012-10-16-002207          2012-10-28-013726
2012-05-10-004554          2012-10-17-002306          Latest
2012-05-17-011942          2012-10-18-002230
2012-05-24-001808          2012-10-19-002253
iMac:~ admin$ df
Filesystem    512-blocks       Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/disk0s2   914062528 585638424 327912104    65%    /
devfs                226        226         0   100%    /dev
map -hosts             0          0         0   100%    /net
map auto_home          0          0         0   100%    /home
/dev/disk1s4 2343750000 1980326912 363423088    85%    /Volumes/iMac HD Time Machine
/dev/disk1s3   976562504 568072864 408489640    59%    /Volumes/iMac HD SuperDuper!

Time Machine has unexpectedly deleted several more backups, all of them (marked in red) about 2 hours before the 24-hour limit, then returned to expected behavior. Here is the complete list of yesterday's deletions (there was no 9pm backup to delete):
Nov 5 04:04:46 iMac com.apple.backupd[18020]: Deleted backup /Volumes/iMac HD Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/iMac/2012-11-04-035134: 163.92 GB now available
Nov 5 10:07:01 iMac com.apple.backupd[20110]: Deleted backup /Volumes/iMac HD Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/iMac/2012-11-04-114210: 155.69 GB now available
Nov 5 11:06:46 iMac com.apple.backupd[20335]: Deleted backup /Volumes/iMac HD Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/iMac/2012-11-04-103500: 155.68 GB now available
Nov 5 12:06:51 iMac com.apple.backupd[20542]: Deleted backup /Volumes/iMac HD Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/iMac/2012-11-04-134014: 153.54 GB now available
Nov 5 13:06:34 iMac com.apple.backupd[20687]: Deleted backup /Volumes/iMac HD Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/iMac/2012-11-04-124112: 153.56 GB now available
Nov 5 14:06:28 iMac com.apple.backupd[20828]: Deleted backup /Volumes/iMac HD Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/iMac/2012-11-04-154128: 153.55 GB now available
Nov 5 15:06:37 iMac com.apple.backupd[21152]: Deleted backup /Volumes/iMac HD Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/iMac/2012-11-04-144118: 153.54 GB now available
Nov 5 16:06:20 iMac com.apple.backupd[21360]: Deleted backup /Volumes/iMac HD Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/iMac/2012-11-04-174138: 151.67 GB now available
Nov 5 17:06:31 iMac com.apple.backupd[21510]: Deleted backup /Volumes/iMac HD Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/iMac/2012-11-04-164144: 151.66 GB now available
Nov 5 18:07:27 iMac com.apple.backupd[21674]: Deleted backup /Volumes/iMac HD Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/iMac/2012-11-04-194018: 151.59 GB now available
Nov 5 20:48:14 iMac com.apple.backupd[21804]: Deleted backup /Volumes/iMac HD Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/iMac/2012-11-04-184044: 151.57 GB now available
Nov 5 21:33:14 iMac com.apple.backupd[22086]: Deleted backup /Volumes/iMac HD Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/iMac/2012-11-04-230603: 151.54 GB now available
Nov 5 22:33:30 iMac com.apple.backupd[22370]: Deleted backup /Volumes/iMac HD Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/iMac/2012-11-04-220537: 151.49 GB now available
Nov 5 23:32:21 iMac com.apple.backupd[23141]: Deleted backup /Volumes/iMac HD Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/iMac/2012-11-05-000610: 151.47 GB now available
And here is the complete log of Time Machine executions around the first unexpected deletion:
Nov 5 09:04:17 iMac com.apple.backupd[19826]: Starting standard backup
Nov 5 09:04:27 iMac com.apple.backupd[19826]: Backing up to: /Volumes/iMac HD Time Machine/Backups.backupdb
Nov 5 09:04:41 iMac com.apple.backupd[19826]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 9.08 GB requested (including padding), 159.15 GB available
Nov 5 09:05:35 iMac com.apple.backupd[19826]: Copied 1075 files (2.2 GB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Nov 5 09:05:38 iMac com.apple.backupd[19826]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 6.41 GB requested (including padding), 156.92 GB available
Nov 5 09:05:40 iMac com.apple.backupd[19826]: Copied 175 files (1.1 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Nov 5 09:05:43 iMac com.apple.backupd[19826]: Starting post-backup thinning
Nov 5 09:05:43 iMac com.apple.backupd[19826]: No post-back up thinning needed: no expired backups exist
Nov 5 09:05:43 iMac com.apple.backupd[19826]: Backup completed successfully.
Nov 5 10:04:18 iMac com.apple.backupd[20110]: Starting standard backup
Nov 5 10:04:18 iMac com.apple.backupd[20110]: Backing up to: /Volumes/iMac HD Time Machine/Backups.backupdb
Nov 5 10:04:38 iMac com.apple.backupd[20110]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 10.56 GB requested (including padding), 156.92 GB available
Nov 5 10:06:11 iMac com.apple.backupd[20110]: Copied 1314 files (3.5 GB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Nov 5 10:06:22 iMac com.apple.backupd[20110]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 6.41 GB requested (including padding), 153.45 GB available
Nov 5 10:06:32 iMac com.apple.backupd[20110]: Copied 744 files (1.1 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Nov 5 10:06:36 iMac com.apple.backupd[20110]: Starting post-backup thinning
Nov 5 10:07:01 iMac com.apple.backupd[20110]: Deleted backup /Volumes/iMac HD Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/iMac/2012-11-04-114210: 155.69 GB now available
Nov 5 10:07:01 iMac com.apple.backupd[20110]: Post-back up thinning complete: 1 expired backups removed
Nov 5 10:07:01 iMac com.apple.backupd[20110]: Backup completed successfully.
Nov 5 11:04:17 iMac com.apple.backupd[20335]: Starting standard backup
Nov 5 11:04:27 iMac com.apple.backupd[20335]: Backing up to: /Volumes/iMac HD Time Machine/Backups.backupdb
Nov 5 11:04:43 iMac com.apple.backupd[20335]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 9.14 GB requested (including padding), 155.69 GB available
Nov 5 11:05:58 iMac com.apple.backupd[20335]: Copied 1223 files (2.3 GB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Nov 5 11:06:08 iMac com.apple.backupd[20335]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 6.41 GB requested (including padding), 153.41 GB available
Nov 5 11:06:17 iMac com.apple.backupd[20335]: Copied 596 files (1.1 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Nov 5 11:06:21 iMac com.apple.backupd[20335]: Starting post-backup thinning
Nov 5 11:06:46 iMac com.apple.backupd[20335]: Deleted backup /Volumes/iMac HD Time Machine/Backups.backupdb/iMac/2012-11-04-103500: 155.68 GB now available
Nov 5 11:06:46 iMac com.apple.backupd[20335]: Post-back up thinning complete: 1 expired backups removed
Nov 5 11:06:46 iMac com.apple.backupd[20335]: Backup completed successfully.
It's a bit disappointing this unexpected and opaque behavior.

Deleting machines that aren't actually gone?

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