Hi Peter, Have a read of my Tutorial http://www.ronnibrown.net/tutorials/migrate-to-a-larger-time/index.html
Kind Regards, Ronni Ronni Brown’s iPad Pro 12.9-inch 256GB > On 12 Apr 2021, at 12:31 pm, Peter Crisp <petercr...@westnet.com.au> wrote: > > Hi folks, during last week following my plunge into getting my MS Office 365 > subscription in order - which was an inhibitor for moving to Big Sur (as my > MS Office 2011 was not compatible with Big Sur) - I then have done the Big > Sur update. I am pretty happy with it and no gotchas for me yet with anything. > > However, during all these significant updates I turn off my TM backup so I > can manage the timing for when the next TM Backup takes place - as I knew it > would be a substantial backup. So on Sunday morning I turned it on, whereupon > it goes searching for the drive - found no problem, then “Preparing Backup” > this took a number of hours, then it starts the process of “Freeing space” as > my 2TB backup drive (dedicated to my Macbook) is full. No problem, this has > been the case for the last few months and while it has taken some time to > purge the oldest backups to make space for the new backup, I thought it will > take a good deal of time. But this has been 24 hours+ now. Does anyone else > have this same set of circumstances I have and timing. I am inclined to allow > it to continue like this for days if needed as it doesn’t really bother me. > Keen to hear others experiences or could this be in an endless Big Sur loop I > need to intervene? > > Pete. > > > > <Screen Shot 2021-04-12 at 12.27.24 pm.png> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
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