OS X Lion "Backup" Category

[psnARMEDps3]

Hello,

Today I was trying to clear out space on my MacBook Pro's hard drive. I found out (via Dick Inventory X) that a LARGE chunk of my space was going towards 30 iTunes backups (for iDevices). So I went into iTunes and removed most of them. I restarted my computer many times and the backup space is still shown as taken. Is there a way to make sure your mac "rescans" your hard drive to let it know there is more space? Any help is appreciated.

 

[nunes013]

Hello,

Today I was trying to clear out space on my MacBook Pro's hard drive. I found out (via Dick Inventory X) that a LARGE chunk of my space was going towards 30 iTunes backups (for iDevices). So I went into iTunes and removed most of them. I restarted my computer many times and the backup space is still shown as taken. Is there a way to make sure your mac "rescans" your hard drive to let it know there is more space? Any help is appreciated.

did you erase your trash? also, the space might be going to that mobile backups feature in lion. it takes up a lot of space. you can disable it by a terminal command. it was on a thread here a couple of days ago.

 

[psnARMEDps3]

Thanks for the fast reply! I have looked into that new feature! Tomorrow I will see if connected my Mac to my external hard drive will 'transfer' the mobile time machine. Ill reply it it doesn't work/ or works.

 

[gnozh]

That backup refers to a new feature called mobile time machine backup. You just can't erase it.

 

[3bs]

Thanks for the fast reply! I have looked into that new feature! Tomorrow I will see if connected my Mac to my external hard drive will 'transfer' the mobile time machine. Ill reply it it doesn't work/ or works.

For me even though my laptop is always connected to my Time Capsule, it still makes local backups so connecting to your Time Machine hard disk might decrease the amount of space taken up by "backups" but it won't go to zero

 

[psnARMEDps3]

For me even though my laptop is always connected to my Time Capsule, it still makes local backups so connecting to your Time Machine hard disk might decrease the amount of space taken up by "backups" but it won't go to zero

Yes I know, but It will bring it down a lot until i connect it again.

 

[mrapplegate]

That backup refers to a new feature called mobile time machine backup. You just can't erase it.

It is the local snapshots and you can erase it by disabling it.

sudo tmutil disablelocal