I checked that and found it to be the same.  I just entered TimeMachne and 
found there that there was only 1 backup which was at 5 pm last evening???  I 
will reformat it and started T/M again.


Regards,


Adrian

adrianske...@me.com




On 23/04/2010, at 3:15 PM, Ronda Brown wrote:

> 
> 
> On 23/04/2010, at 12:13 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Good afternoon all,
>> 
>> For some reason my TimeMachine is giving a message saying "This backup is 
>> too large for the backup disk.  "The backup disk requires 657.35 GB but only 
>> 336.95 GB are available etc."  it is a 1TB B/U disk.  It has been backing up 
>> for a couple of years now but appears to have stopped deleting the oldest 
>> backup when its full.
>> 
>> I cant find any preferences other than the "Don't Backup" option.  Can 
>> anyone suggest a solution please?
> 
> Hi Adrian,
> 
> That's a large backup for an hourly backup?
> 
> If you do a "Get Info" on your 1TB backup Drive what free space does it say 
> it has left?
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Ronni
> 
> 17" MacBook Pro  Intel Core i7
> 2.66GHz / 4GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm
> 
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> Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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