Thanks for the tip, but I'm not using Time Machine on this computer. Honestly, I'm just waiting for iCloud Drive with Yosemite, then I'll buy 250GB and dump my stuff in there. For now, though, no backups, which is why my essentials live in Dropbox. Not ideal, but it works for the moment. On Jul 15, 2014, at 4:58 AM, Tristan <theblinddj...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Alex, > > MacBooks have a background process that makes hourly backups if you > have Time Machine enabled. These backups will accumulate into a "local > backup," and until you connect the machine to your time machine drive > they will take up space. > I'm not sure if you're using time machine, but it's designed so it > will bring your hard drive to the point of almost being full, then > delete backups as it sees fit. Not entirely ideal. > > To delete the backups, either manually clear out the /Volumes/Mobile > Backups folder, or disable and reenable time machine through system > preferences. > > To stop these "local" backups from occurring, you can do this by > opening terminal and typing > sudo tmutil disablelocal > > Hope this helps. > > > On 7/15/14, Jason White <ja...@jasonjgw.net> wrote: >> Tim Kilburn <kilbu...@me.com> wrote: >>> Interesting. Haven't used that one before. Thanks for the info. What >>> is >>> the command actually reporting? >> >> It's reporting the disk space usage in 512-byte blocks by default, but >> there >> are options to change this to report in megabytes, gigabytes, etc. See the >> du(1) manual page for all the details. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Have a great day, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
