Time machine "Delete all backups of <file>" option missing

Previously, when you right clicked a file in the Time Machine view, you had an option to delete it and all its backed up copies.

A screenshot showing the menu item on some old macOS version. Mac OS X Leopard, by my guess.

I'm using macOS Monterey, and that appears to no longer exist:

A screenshot of the option being absent on macOS Monterey

Was this feature removed?


The ability to delete all backups of a file was removed when Time Machine changed to using destination disks formatted as APFS. So the feature was removed with Big Sur when using APFS Time Machine.

This loss of functionality is, in my view, more than compensated by the improved reliability of Time Machine to APFS.

For the best in depth articles on Time Machine see the "Time Machine to APFS" links here Eclectic Light