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Lots of "Cleanup Failed" for Time Machine files - just delete those backups?

My work email account was hijacked by spammers, which was my first clue that something was wrong.  At my website host's recommendation, I installed and ran Sophos anti-virus.  I came up with 24 threats detected and clicked to clean them up.  All came back with "Cleanup Failed" messages, and all were from my Time Machine backup.  I watched the video on how to removed threats from Time Machine, but I can't find these threat files when I do searches in Time Machine.  Can I just delete a bunch of backups going quite a ways back, and will doing so remove the threats? Thanks in advance for any help.  

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  • buffalo234 wrote:

    there is nothing to choose from and it won't let me click the plus to add time machine


    As per the video you should be able to exclude any attached drive/folder from the 'Scan This Mac' scan, or a custom scan.  Can you post what you're seeing?

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  • buffalo234 wrote:

    there is nothing to choose from and it won't let me click the plus to add time machine


    As per the video you should be able to exclude any attached drive/folder from the 'Scan This Mac' scan, or a custom scan.  Can you post what you're seeing?

    :1020715

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    Communities Moderator, SOPHOS
    Knowledge Base  |  @SophosSupport  |  Video tutorials
    Remember to like a post.  If a post (on a question thread) solves your question use the 'This helped me' link.

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