Time Machine is a great tool for desktop users for backups. It keep the files on an external drive, and starts the backup process at regular time intervals. I have been using this feature for more than 3 months now, and I have actually found it useful … once. It saved me a day’s work and I will continue to use it in the future.

But when the drive becomes insufficient (after storing other people’s rescued files: person A, person B, person C) I decided to manually erase some of my old backups (although Time Machine does this as well) to gain some space.

I pushed the magic button combination (Cmd+del) over the selected back-up folders (found under Backups.backupdb, entered my login password and the I hit Empty Trash. 30 minutes later I am writing this post and the delete process did not end until now…

I have never ever ever deleted so many files at once in my life… I kept on hitting the print screen command for 15 minutes when the finder was counting them, and stopped in the end at… 1,181,812.

One million, one hundred eighty one thousand, eight hundred and twelve files to delete

One million, one hundred eighty one thousand, eight hundred and twelve files. Makes one wonder how many files are in his computer…

Oh! I would dare other operating systems to handle this load… say Microsoft Windows for example :D Thank God the filesystem on my external drive is HFS+ and not FAT32…