My macbook air has only 10mb free, It will not complete a Time Machine Backup, on current time machine drive or even on a brand new 2tb disk drive?

My macbook air has only 10mb free, It will not complete a Time Machine Backup, on current time machine drive or even on a brand new 2tb disk drive?

MacBook Air (2018 – 2020)

Posted on Mar 30, 2023 3:05 PM

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Posted on Mar 30, 2023 7:06 PM

10 MB is not enough to do much of anything. You will need to create sufficient free space before Time Machine will be able to create a backup.


To increase space in general refer to Free up storage space on your Mac - Apple Support.


Optimize storage space on your Mac - Apple Support also offers some suggestions.

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Mar 30, 2023 7:06 PM in response to JAsksHow

10 MB is not enough to do much of anything. You will need to create sufficient free space before Time Machine will be able to create a backup.


To increase space in general refer to Free up storage space on your Mac - Apple Support.


Optimize storage space on your Mac - Apple Support also offers some suggestions.

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