Anyone know where local Time Machine snapshots are stored?

[CavemanUK]

Hi,

Im another person seeing a huge amount of used "other" space. my free space has dropped from 40gb to 600mb overnight and i suspect its something to do with Time Machine. Ive switched it off but I think the backup is still there. The problem is ... where is it! i can't seem to see it anywhere..

 

[mrapplegate]

Hi,

Im another person seeing a huge amount of used "other" space. my free space has dropped from 40gb to 600mb overnight and i suspect its something to do with Time Machine. Ive switched it off but I think the backup is still there. The problem is ... where is it! i can't seem to see it anywhere..

/Volumes/Mobile Backups

Disable with sudo tmutil disablelocal if needed. It takes a little time to restore disk space if you disable it.

 

[Jerome Morrow]

I don't see local snapshots at all. Can this be because that Time Machine disk also was used to backup Snow Leopard and has Snow leopard backups too?

Scratch that. It was disabled for some reason.

 

[mrapplegate]

I don't see local snapshots at all. Can this be because that Time Machine disk also was used to backup Snow Leopard and has Snow leopard backups too?

Scratch that. It was disabled for some reason.

So snapshots were disabled?

 

[Jerome Morrow]

So snapshots were disabled?

Yes. Why i can't explain, because Lion is installed to and empty disk for testing. Everythin is default settings. Even Dock size is default.

 

[mrapplegate]

Yes. Why i can't explain, because Lion is installed to and empty disk for testing. Everythin is default settings. Even Dock size is default.

I guess I'm confused, you're still missing the disk space, but it was not the local snapshots taking up the missing space?