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10.5: How to delete objects from Time Machine backups
Authored by: asmeurer on Sun, Nov 16 2008 at 10:52AM PST

Thanks for this hint. I forgot to turn off Time Machine after doing an Archive and Install. It ended up backing up the Previous Systems folder, which was about a hundred gigs of duplicate data, especially considering that stuff was already on my Time Machine backup.