So that's a big no-no. Logically, though, there's no warning pop-up or "are you sure" dialog box, it just lets you do it and then some nasty bit of OS schizophrenia rattles around in there like a drunken wad of razorwire with parkinson's.
So, point is, there's no good way to limit the size of a timemachine backup file. You have to either partition the drive, or fill it up with everything you ever want on it BEFORE setting it up as a timemachine drive.
I did eventually fix it by formatting the external harddrive. Pretty drastic right? I tried some utilities that were supposed to "force empty" the trash (heh), but they didn't work. Trash It and...uh...Cocktail. They said stuff like, "be patient" and "it may take a bit if you're deleting timemachine files," but I couldn't find any indication of what time-scale "a bit" was measured on. A bit like a whole 10 seconds, or a bit like "I'm worried about this because I haven't turned my computer off for a month?"
Whatever. Don't do that again. Better to buy another GD ex-HD.
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