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Roscoe1
Aspirant
Oct 30, 2016

Remove Time machine backup

My Time Machine filled up ages ago and is no longer useful (I now use USB drives).  How do I remove the volume I set aside for TM to recover the lost space?  If I uncheck the "Enable Time Machine support" box, what happens?

 

Note that I set this up years ago with minimal understanding and have cruised on autopilot ever since, so please avoid "tech" speak if you can.  I am a better-than-average computer user but the ReadyNAS is not exactly user-friendly in its setup and I'm not network savvy.

 

Thanks!

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  • FramerV's avatar
    FramerV
    NETGEAR Employee Retired

    Hi Roscoe1,

     

    This is very old topic that I found but it might help you out.

     

    Deleting time machine backup

     

    There a few steps provided there, please check which are more comfortable with.

     

     

    Regards,

  • FramerV's avatar
    FramerV
    NETGEAR Employee Retired

    Hi Roscoe1,


    We’d greatly appreciate hearing your feedback letting us know if the information we provided has helped resolve your issue or if you need further assistance. 

    If your issue is now resolved, we encourage you to mark the appropriate reply as the “Accept as Solution” or post what resolved it and mark it as solution so others can be confident in benefiting from the solution. 
     
    The Netgear community looks forward to hearing from you and being a helpful resource in the future!
     
    Regards,

      • Roscoe1's avatar
        Roscoe1
        Aspirant

        If I just delete the file containing the sparcbundles, does the NAS then free up that space?  I'm not seeing the complete picture...

         

        thanks

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