Thanks Joe, but if you do an erase, you would lose all possibilities of last two years to find anything you might want from here on in, no? As a guy backs up his TM, I would think you would not be the type just to bag the last two years, when the odds are 95% you would find what you need from on that disk via the finder, no?

BTW how far back does TM keep going? ie, I only see files from 2017. I would think it would be smart enough to keep as least a few versions of everything from '16, '15, '14, '13..