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That's the reason I would bet on. TM does indeed do local snapshots
every hour if it can't reach its proper backup destination, so that
if you delete or corrupt a file by mistake you can roll back,
despite not having a backup destination connected. If you do a
proper TM backup to an external device, it should hose the local
snapshots as they are no longer relevant.<br>
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Do a <br>
tmutil listbackups<br>
and it will show you what its got, which may include recent local
snapshots. It does often take a few seconds.<br>
See the manpage for "tmutil" for how to manage Time Machine in
detail and control everything from the command line. It's quite
comprehensive.<br>
<br>
Jules.<br>
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On 13/12/2011 20:06, Mischa Tuffield wrote:
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<div>Could be offline time machine backups. If time machine hasn't
had a chance to backup to where it normally does, it creates
local backups, as far as I am aware.</div>
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<div>Mischa<br>
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-Mischa's phone</div>
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On Dec 13, 2011, at 8:03 PM, "dr. m.c. schraefel" <<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:mc@ecs.soton.ac.uk">mc@ecs.soton.ac.uk</a>>
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<div>what keeps eating space on my drive?
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<div>i had cleaned out many many gigs on my drive. last
night, i got a notice "less than a gig left" and thot
"what??"</div>
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<div>restarted, recovered a few gigs (??) but today,
after adding nothing, see that it's already 6 gigs
less than last night. </div>
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<div>this seems peculiar. </div>
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<div>any thoughts?</div>
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<div>with thanks</div>
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