Disk size issues?

[ninethirty]

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!

 

[sniffies]

Same here. It's a known bug.

Don't worry, your drive ain't shrinking.

 

[johannnn]

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]

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]

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]

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.

 

[kftrainer]

Local Snapshots

i apologize i did not go through the whole thread

Dude, in System Preferences. I just wrote it.

 

[sniffies]

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?