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iapplelove

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Nov 22, 2011
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Over the last few days I have been noticing my backups to time capsule was talking forever and then realized they were substantially bigger than they should be. 15gb 20gb at a time and I hardly use this machine really just for my iPhone/iPad backups surfing the web and viewing my photos.

Long story short I checked my storage capacity and the "other" category was over 160gb! I only had about 90gb out of 500 left after everything else. I checked some of my folders to see wherenthe issue was coming from and it looks like its my iPhoto library some how. I deleted my library and created a new one and I'm down to about 70gb of use in "other" but I'm thinking it may be my idevice backups?? I have my entire photo library on both devices about 25k photos.

I'm atempting my first back up to my time capsule in 2 days and its over 100gb..so I'm a little lost

Any advice would be great thanks :)
 
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