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It's been backed up into your local mobilebackups volume. The space is release after a few days ( or weeks ) or is release when your hard drive is full. If you don't like it this way, you can simply turn off this "cool" feature by opening up a terminal and typing in "sudo tmutil disablelocal" .
hope it helps
 
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