If you haven't already try unplugging your time machine drive and then restart your machine and then do the shift command and delete to see if you can delete the trash completely.
-----Original Message----- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Joshua Tubbs Sent: Sunday, 17 July 2016 3:05 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Deleting a Time Machine Backup in the trash Yes, but the backup data is in the trash now so can’t that is what I am trying to get rid of. > On Jul 16, 2016, at 3:50 AM, Simon Fogarty <si...@blinky-net.com> wrote: > > What about just eraising the intire disk using disk utilities? > > That will give you a clean slate to start again with. > > And if you have everything on your new machine then your not going to lose > anything > > Just a thought. > > -----Original Message----- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Joshua Tubbs > Sent: Saturday, 16 July 2016 6:21 AM > To: 'Maxwell Ivey' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > Subject: Deleting a Time Machine Backup in the trash > > Hi everyone, > I am wondering how to delete a time machine backup in the trash? I delete the > trash, tell it that I want to remove all items, including locked ones, but > then it tells me that some of the backup folders, such as the user folder, > which is now on this new Mac, my home folder and something dated something in > July, are all in use. > Is there any way to delete this? I want it completely trashed. Furthermore, I > don’t have a drive bigger than my now current internal of 2 TB, so I guess I > won’t be using Time Machine for now. I wonder if there are other, better > backup utilities I can use instead? > I thought about paying for a Bazkblaze subscription to back this stuff up. > Not sure if there’s anything better than Backblaze. > Thanks all. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara > Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara > Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. 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