davekobrenski/remove-timemachine-backups.sh

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Mac OS X: Delete old Time Machine backups

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remove-timemachine-backups.sh

sudo tmutil delete /Volumes/MyDrive/Backups.backupdb/Path-To-Backup/2011*

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davekobrenski commented Apr 29, 2015

use the wildcard (*) character to delete all files in a particular year, month, etc

sudo tmutil delete /Volumes/MyDrive/Backups.backupdb/Path-To-Backup/2012-10*

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