MyBook 1 TB, NTFS, Windows 7 Home Premium

WD External Drives External Drives for PC
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My MyBook is getting full and I’d like to delete some of the old backups that I know I don’t need. My problem is that when I try to delete the old files I don’t have a “delete” option when I right mouse click on the file and/or folder. I’ve searched  around and it looks like the only way to accomplish this task is to format the drive and start from scratch. I have to think there is an easier way to free up space on this drive?

Thank you,

Shawn

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You can select the file and press delete on your keyboard

bare in mind this will damage the backup integrity and you will must likely corrupt the entire backup

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I tried that, didn’t work.

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Then we are looking at a corrupted backup folder

backup all data and reformat the drive