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Wacek

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May 4, 2012
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I am running Mac OS X 10.7.3.
My Mac Hard Disk contains 40 GB and I want to back it up to an external HD partition of 80 GB. When I try to do that Disk Utility tells me that there is not enough space on the partition. When I check the partition with Disk Utility it tells me that there is 80 GB free space on it.
I can do the backup successfully with Carbon Copy Cloner using the same 80GB partition but not with Disk Utility.
Wacek
 
Curious, do you have a lot of items in your trash when that drive is connected?
 
Disk Utility misreads free space on External drive

No, I haven't a lot of items in the Trash.

Wacek
 
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