I had to reformat my entire computer (with data backed up on Time Machine). I'm on a Santa Rosa MacBook Pro (2.4Ghz, 8600 M GT, 250 GB). Prior to reformatting, I had about 30 GB devoted to Windows XP and the rest was for Leopard. My amount of free space on Windows was 2 GB (lol) and 40 GB remaining on the Mac OS. Information on both OSes were backed up.
Now because XP was causing me problems I was forced to erase the Windows partition. When I did do so (of course the erasing took place on Leopard), I think by accident Time Machine started to backup files again. This wasn't too much of a disaster except the only change was that 40 GB free now became 70 GB free (because Windows was wiped). I don't know how much of a big deal this makes.
So, when I did go ahead and re-install Leopard and Windows (I made sure to devote the same amount of space of 30 GB to XP as I had done), Migration Assistant started transferring information from my Time Machine backup to restore it into this freshly reformatted harddrive. However now this same data storage for Leopard is leaving me with 20 GB free and not 40 GB as it used to.
I don't know how this happened. Maybe I also manually copied Library or some other folder from Time Machine but in that case it should have just replaced the folders and not costed me an addition 20 GB. Please help, I don't know what the problem is. Thanks!
And sorry if this was long.
Now because XP was causing me problems I was forced to erase the Windows partition. When I did do so (of course the erasing took place on Leopard), I think by accident Time Machine started to backup files again. This wasn't too much of a disaster except the only change was that 40 GB free now became 70 GB free (because Windows was wiped). I don't know how much of a big deal this makes.
So, when I did go ahead and re-install Leopard and Windows (I made sure to devote the same amount of space of 30 GB to XP as I had done), Migration Assistant started transferring information from my Time Machine backup to restore it into this freshly reformatted harddrive. However now this same data storage for Leopard is leaving me with 20 GB free and not 40 GB as it used to.
I don't know how this happened. Maybe I also manually copied Library or some other folder from Time Machine but in that case it should have just replaced the folders and not costed me an addition 20 GB. Please help, I don't know what the problem is. Thanks!
And sorry if this was long.