preparing for Time Machine

[Andrew Brown]

On 16 Oct 2007, at 13:47, Arno Hautala wrote:

> I'm pretty sure that if you don't have a ready drive for Time  
> Machine it just starts deleting files until it reaches a balance  
> where historical backups are possible.

Yes, that's it, but it deletes recent files first, thereby living up  
to its name. Within a few minutes you should be back in 1987 or 1988,  
and able to start again with a relatively clean slate.

AB