How to Remove Backup files in Rescue & Recovery on local drive

 I need more space on my hard drive and for a year have been backing up to an expansion drive.  However, I kept the base and one backup on the local drive. I attempted to delete the base backup, since it was listed in  "view all backups" on the "local" drive. However, it still appears in "view all backups"--in the local drive.  I see now that I actually deleted the "base" on the USB drive; I see no way to delete backups in the local drive. How do I delete the backups on the local drive?
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RNR will only support 1 target backup location, in your case, Local or USB.
If you change location to USB it will ask "delete  backups on Local".  If you say no, it will retain Local backups and start afresh on USB. View backups should ONLY list current target location.  In your case, USB.  You said delete base, yes it deleted base on USB.
Go to RNR, advanced menu, and post a screen shot of View backups.  Do not use the primary panel.
(1) Change location to LOCAL.  Then you can delete LOCAL.  Then change location to USB.
(2)Uninstall RNR.  This will remove \RRbackups on the C drive.  Reinstall.  
The primary panel (simple view) Might be using registry values to list all backups where as the advanced menu should ONLY list the target location.

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