Lion Local Backup

[stefmesman]

anyone found out how to disable lion's local backup? it is currently eating 130Gb of my 500gb disk.

please help...

 

[moiraf100]

I found this link today - I was having the same problem
The only thing is, I have just completed a Time Machine backup, and I reckon all this data is on my external drive as well now?
http://toti.posterous.com/hidden-local-backups-with-mac-os-x-lion-filli

 

[Weaselboy]

Also, you can turn off Time Machine then turn it back on and that will delete whatever mobile backups you have.

 

[3bs]

If you turn off Time Machine and back up manually every time you want to, it won't make local snapshots.
Or you can use the terminal command provided in the link above but I didn't wanna mess with Terminal

 

[icstoo]

Hey, I found answer to this a few days ago. Open Terminal and type "sudo tmutil disablelocal" without the " obviously. It will prob warn you about changing things and ask for your user password. When you type this in nothing appears to type on screen, but just type it and press enter, then enter the code I mentioned above and it will disable local backup.

Hope this helps,

IC

Edit: sorry didn't see link.