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Are you using an external hard drive for TimeMachine backup? Are you using it to store other data as well? Didn't you divide your hard drive it into a data and TimeMachine partition? (Hell No ...!) Now you're running out of free disk space and need more room? (Hell Yes ...!) Solution #1: Buy another (bigger) hard drive. Solution #2: Remove some old TimeMachine backups to recover some space. To do the later, open up a Console and type in this command:
You'll get a list of backups available on your hard drive, which looks something like this:
Now if you feel, that you won't need any old backups anymore (like I do for the pre-2011 backups, you can remove them easily like this:
Note: Don't forget to enquote the string to cope with white spaces, otherwise you'll get an error message. Now if you want to be a bit more efficient, you can delete multiple backups at once. Let's say, we want to delete all 2009 and 2010 backups, this command will do:
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