I have a 1 TB hard drive on my Mac and I bought a 1 TB LaCie secondary hard drive. My Mac has lots of capacity left yet my LaCie backup is full and can't back up. I looked and it had backups of years past on it.

It seems that I must have the wrong settings in place but after going through my preferences, I could not find anything that gets rid of older backups. Its as if it is keeping every backup it ever made.

Tommythinman wrote:
Thanks, I guess I always thought that Time Capsule did everything automatically and seamlessly.
Time Machine (the backup software) does, if it can, but that depends on the circumstances:
(A Time Capsule is a piece of Apple hardware combining a wireless router and hard drive.)
Effective with Snow Leopard (10.6), there's an option on the Time Machine Preferences > Options window to Notify after old backups are deleted. If that's checked, you might see this message when the disk is nearly full (we don't know just how close it has to be):
Once it is out of room and Time Machine has to delete old backups, it will send this message (after the deletions and new backup are done):
If you don't want to see that anymore, either check the Do not show... box or the Warn after ... box in TM Preferences. If you don't mind seeing it, just click OK.
If your backups fail with this one, the disk really is full, and TM can't delete enough backups to make room (it won't ever delete the last remaining one, though):
However, if you're on Leopard (10.5), the option is Warn when old backups are deleted and instead of deleting any backups, it sends this one:
Badly worded; all you have to do is remove the check from the box in TM Prefs > Options; then it will delete old backups as needed.
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