How to Empty Time Capsule
After formatting and reset your Mac, or after performing an upgrade hard drive, you may need to resolve some problems with storing backups on a Time Capsule: The first Time Machine backup, the one immediately following formatting or to installation of the new hard drive, you may not have enough space for storage, showing the user an error message.
How to solve this problem? In most cases, the best solution is to clean out the old Time Capsule backup obsolete, so come back as good as new, ready to store all of our files. In this guide, we’ll see how you clean out your Time Capsule, and in a few simple steps.
1.) You first need to open the Applications tab, click Utilities, and then open the utility Airport. Just launched, the utility should be able to locate the Time Capsule user. In this window, locate the button in the lower left corner ” Manual Setup ” : clicking will be able to access a menu which allows users to edit and configure many settings.
2.) Click on the ” Disks “, located on the top bar, to display information about the status of the disk. At this point, click the ” Erase ” to delete all the old backups that now we no longer need. This will open a new window where you will be asked if you are sure you want to perform the operation. In this screen also, we can rename the Time Capsule that we are going to clean up, and choose the method for deleting data. How to get rid of the backups are four: the faster is undoubtedly Quick Erase. The others are slower, but in case you are formatting the disk and then sell and is concerned about the recoverability of your data, using these other options you can delete them without allowing them to be retrieved later. We select the Quick Erase option, and we click on the Erase button (the first of the two buttons at the bottom right).
3.) Again, a window will appear that asks us if we really want to complete the process: click once again on Erase, and then click OK in the window that appears soon after. In utility Airport will now see a loading bar at the completion of the transaction, reopening the tab ” Disks ” (which we have already seen in step 2). You can see that the storage space on your Time Capsule is totally free …
