Time Machine backing up tons and tons of gigabytes all day long...

[rackalamb]

I haven't done much today with my computer. For about 8 hours I just had itunes running and was playing songs at work. Now, I am on iChat and a few other apps surfing the web and communicating. I am not saving anything or downloading anything.

Yet, despite all of this, Time Machine starts every 10 minutes or so and backs up about 3 GB on average. I don't know why this is. I haven't done anything. Does anyone know what the problem may be?

 

[r.j.s]

Are you running a Virtual Machine?

 

[rackalamb]

thank you r.j.s

 

[r.j.s]

Exclude the folder ... in TM Preferences ... that contains the VM file. Otherwise, every time anything changes in the VM, it will backup the entire file.

 

[rackalamb]

thank you sir

 

[r.j.s]

thank you sir

No problem, if you are interested, I have a few videos on Time Machine here.