Just connected a new external drive for my back-ups as my old one was full. It was 500gb. New is 2tb. However the time machine says that it only has 172gb to back-up. My storage says 250gb full. I am concerned that I am not fully backed-up and will be in trouble if I need to reload my Mac hard drive. Am I doing something wrong?
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.15
Make sure when you click Options... that nothing is being excluded apart from other attached drives.
If nothing is set to be excluded, Time Machine will back-up everything it needs to. The size may look odd because it doesn't backup needed files like Caches.
Make sure when you click Options... that nothing is being excluded apart from other attached drives.
If nothing is set to be excluded, Time Machine will back-up everything it needs to. The size may look odd because it doesn't backup needed files like Caches.
Thank you that’s reassuring. I still don’t understand why the save capacity is under half of the old external drive level.
Time Machine - MacBook pro
