Timeline for "The operation can't be completed because backup items can't be modified."
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| Nov 8 at 21:03 | history | bumped | CommunityBot | This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed. | |
| Oct 9 at 20:27 | answer | added | Elizabeth Vilella | timeline score: 0 | |
| Oct 29, 2022 at 14:10 | comment | added | Tetsujin | See ifixit.com/Answers/View/590631/… | |
| Oct 29, 2022 at 14:07 | comment | added | Tetsujin | What I meant was that the old advice to copy the Backups.backupdb file has now vanished. Even Apple no longer support moving their own data structure. This has become a nightmare since APFS. The only advice they give for a damaged Time Machine structure now is to reformat & start afresh. They used to be fixable, even if you had to buy DiskWarrior to do it. There's nothing yet that can fix APFS properly. | |
| Oct 29, 2022 at 13:31 | comment | added | Brian Schack | I read the user guide from Apple that you shared, "If the Time Machine backup disk for your Mac is full." It explains how to exclude items from a future Time Machine backup for my current computer. Unfortunately, this does not delete an item from a past Time Machine backup for my past computer. You warned me that it would not be helpful. I appreciate you sharing though! | |
| Oct 29, 2022 at 13:21 | history | edited | Brian Schack | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 29, 2022 at 7:54 | comment | added | Tetsujin | This is the best I can do right now, they get harder to search as they're obsoleted, on 'copying the backup' support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mh15137/12.0/mac/12.0 Look at the page for Monterey, then look back at Mojave. All similar advice has now disappeared. | |
| Oct 29, 2022 at 1:04 | comment | added | Brian Schack | @Tetsujin Would you mind to share a link to the advice from Apple that you mentioned? | |
| Oct 29, 2022 at 1:01 | history | edited | Brian Schack | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 28, 2022 at 15:27 | comment | added | Tetsujin | This is additionally complicated by the fact that Big Sur no longer uses HFS+ for Time Machine, but APFS. APFS can't use hard links, so the new Time Machine format is different again. Apple's advice for this dilemma is currently… Throw it away, store it on a shelf, or reformat & start over. [yup] | |
| Oct 28, 2022 at 15:21 | comment | added | Tetsujin | Ah, that gets more complex, after your edit. You may be able to bypass the permissions, but that is still not going to make the task easier. That one file or folder you want to get rid of has another hard link in every single backup right down the history. Time Machine is able to track those & eliminate all links. Finder can't. A hard link is a 'pointer' to a file. There is only one real file, and every pointer points to the same file. The file is only actually deleted once every single pointer is removed. idk whether that could be done from terminal, it would need someone smarter than me. | |
| Oct 28, 2022 at 14:56 | history | edited | Brian Schack | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 28, 2022 at 14:40 | comment | added | Brian Schack | @Gilby I edited the question in reply to your comment. | |
| Oct 28, 2022 at 14:39 | history | edited | Brian Schack | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 28, 2022 at 7:31 | comment | added | Tetsujin | The accepted answer on your linked questin is basically wrong. The highest voted answer is correct - you are trying to delete from a protected area. You cannot just delete Time Machine files from Finder. See apple.stackexchange.com/q/22905/85275 apple.stackexchange.com/q/243853/85275 and apple.stackexchange.com/q/331653/85275 | |
| Oct 27, 2022 at 22:19 | comment | added | Gilby | A little more precision regarding what you tried would be helpful. "when I Delete the folder". Which folder? Is that on the source disk, or is it in the backup? And how did you try to delete? Also what version of macOS and what format (HFS+ or APFS) is the backup disk image? | |
| Oct 27, 2022 at 20:41 | history | asked | Brian Schack | CC BY-SA 4.0 |