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ninethirty

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Has anyone noticed with Lion that the amount of available space being reported is seriously off? On my MBA, which I store almost nothing on, it's telling me that I'm using around 80 gigs of space, with about 40 available.

When I install WhatSize to check this out a little more closely, it looks like I'm using about 30 gigs total.. not 80, and I'm finding this strange.

Cheers!
 

johannnn

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Bug? I would say it is the local backup that's new to 10.7 and set to on by default (System Preference > Time Mashine > Options > Local backup).
 

ninethirty

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Wow.. I had never noticed this. Turning off local snapshots doubled my available space. Thanks so much for letting me know!

Bug? I would say it is the local backup that's new to 10.7 and set to on by default (System Preference > Time Mashine > Options > Local backup).
 

kftrainer

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Turning off local snapshots ?

How do I turn off local snapshots on Lion Develop Preview ?

QUOTE=ninethirty;12266294]Wow.. I had never noticed this. Turning off local snapshots doubled my available space. Thanks so much for letting me know![/QUOTE]
 

johannnn

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How do I turn off local snapshots on Lion Develop Preview ?

QUOTE=ninethirty;12266294]Wow.. I had never noticed this. Turning off local snapshots doubled my available space. Thanks so much for letting me know!
Dude, in System Preferences. I just wrote it.
 

sniffies

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Bug? I would say it is the local backup that's new to 10.7 and set to on by default (System Preference > Time Mashine > Options > Local backup).
Really? Mine was off by default. Also, how do you explain the fact that before uninstalling Xcode I had 149GB of available space and after I uninstalled Xcode, it showed even less space of 113GB?
 
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