Really? I never knew time machine did that? I thought it just tried once
an hour to connect to the backup drive and if it couldn't connect it
just failed and tried again later. Apparently this isn't actually the
case. I learn something new every day.
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14329
CB
On 7/15/14, 4:58 AM, Tristan 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.
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