Why won't trash clear out old time machine folders?

I have moved older folders into trash and when I click on Empty secure trash, it loads, gives me the banded progress, the goes away, never giving me the solid band that it is clearing out trash.
Any suggestions?

You're not supposed to delete folders from within Time Machine. Time Machine uses very specific journalling and indexing and if you delete folders in there you run the risk of losing all access to your backups.
That being said try emptying the trash non-securely. If that is not visible as an option go into Finder -> Preferences -> Advanced and uncheck Empty Trash Securely.

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Deano8000 wrote:
After being away on vacation for a week or so, I got the dreaded "Time Machine need to create a new backup" message.
That message means what it says: Time Machine will not back up to that sparsebundle again.
As detailed in #C13 of Time Machine - Troubleshooting, you may be able to recover selected files, or even restore an entire backup, but that's it.
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OSX does that when it's already determined it can't repair it.
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S@ggy wrote:
I ve just bought a macbook pro & I m very new to MAC OS. I wanna to take recovery of only Original OS with out using time machine & I also dnt want 2 store my personal files & stuffs. Pls guys suggest some tips for recovering my os If any problem occurs in future.
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