OSX Lion

[iphonedude2008]

A week ago, I finally converted to Apple and got a 13'' MacBook Pro. When I go to look a my storage in , about this Mac, more info, it comes up with 140.96 GB of space for backup and 69.23 GB of other. The rest shows up as a reasonable amount

Is this normal of should not. If so, how do I find what it is and remove it if it is junk.

I don't know why the backup is there because I am using Time Machine.

Any help is greatly appreciated

 

[merrickdrfc]

Time Machine keeps local backups on notebooks whilst it is unable to access the backup drive, I don't know if there is an option to disable this. The other stuff is your system files and apps

 

[iphonedude2008]

Thank you very much.

 

[old-wiz]

Time Machine keeps local backups on notebooks whilst it is unable to access the backup drive, I don't know if there is an option to disable this. The other stuff is your system files and apps

There is a command line that will disable local backups:

sudo tmutil disablelocal

(found on another post in the forum)

 

[iphonedude2008]

Works but

Thank you. that worked, but now I have 193 Gb of other. How do I find that data and delete it?

edit: Now it shows 56GB. Better but if anyone knows what is going on, I would like to know. Otherwise my problem is now mostly resolved. Thanks to all who contributed.

 

[old-wiz]

Be sure to empty the trash; the space isn't released until you empty the trash.