Huge "backup" space

[dcaccount]

Hello,
I have just deleted a few Gb of useless files.

To my surprise, after checking the free space, I have noticed that I have not had any great increase of space available.

The amount of space taken by the Backup has however increase by more or less the amount of files deleted.

I do not understand why and I would not like them to be backed up by time machine.

Any clue?

Thanks,
daniele

 

[Weaselboy]

What you are seeing is normal. When you have Time Machine turned on and you delete files they go into a hidden folder at /.Mobilebackups. The OS will mange that space and start to delete the files as the disk gets closer to full. You can read about it here.