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Reclaiming space on Time Machine / Time Capsule
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Relcaiming space on Time Machine / Time Capsule

See: Apple Forum Answer

  1. Connect briefly to Time Machine to get drive mounted
  2. Delete backups; make sure Time Machine is not running a backup
  3. Open terminal
  4. Compact sparsebundle to reclaim space
sudo su
cd /Volumes
cd <name of time capsule>
hdiutil compact "name of the.sparsebundle"
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