Free up space on my external hard drive

I have a 2 TB Macbook M1. I back it up every few months onto an external hard drive via Time Machine. Is it safe and possible to erase older back ups (ie back up from 4 months ago) to free up space on the hard drive?


MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 11.4

Posted on Mar 15, 2022 06:09 PM

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Posted on Mar 15, 2022 06:12 PM

External Time Machine drives should automatically free up space when you are running out. This information can be found at the bottom of this Support page: Back up your Mac with Time Machine - Apple Support


”The oldest backups are deleted when your backup disk is full.”


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