Deleting specific files in backup

As a matter of course, when a project is finished I delete the files from my hard disk and also enter time machine and delete the files from the backup by highlighting the file and then pressing the widget button which gives me a window and I instruct it to delete all backups of this file, then enter my passowrd in another window and the backup is gone.  Now, for some reason when I press the widget button the window which appears does not give me the option to delete all backups of the file.  Any thoughts?

As a matter of course, when a project is finished I delete the files from my hard disk and also enter time machine and delete the files from the backup by highlighting the file and then pressing the widget button which gives me a window and I instruct it to delete all backups of this file, then enter my passowrd in another window and the backup is gone.  Now, for some reason when I press the widget button the window which appears does not give me the option to delete all backups of the file.  Any thoughts?

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