Time Machine off, but there is 10gb used space as "BACKUP", what is it?

[slowmotionzx]

Im trying to figure out what the 10GB labeled as backup is. Time Machine is off so it isnt that. There are no iphone backups on itunes. Does anyone have a clue?

 

[Weaselboy]

Did you reboot after you turned off Time Machine.... if not, try that.

If it is still there run the command blow in Terminal and tell me what it says. This is the hidden folder where those Time Machine backups are stored.

sudo du -hs /.MobileBackups

If that comes back and shows zero, run this Terminal command to reindex Spotlight. Sometimes that Spotlight index gets corrupted and caused issues with that storage readout. Give it 20-30 minutes to complete the reindex.

sudo mdutil -E /

 

[slowmotionzx]

thing is time machine was never on.

 

[slowmotionzx]

second command didnt do anything still 10 gb, i think it might be related to upgrading to el capitan. bug?

 

[Weaselboy]

thing is time machine was never on.

Ahh... gotcha... try the reindex then.

Do the Mobilebackups check just for grins anyway.

Time Machine is the only thing that shows up there not iOS backups.

 

[slowmotionzx]

i did both of those, found it on another thread posted by you. did nothing. im guessing it is a el capitan bug or issue

 

[Weaselboy]

i did both of those, found it on another thread posted by you. did nothing. im guessing it is a el capitan bug or issue

Yeah could be, but I have not seen anybody else mention it.

Try this in Terminal to see the whole drive maybe something will pop out at us. It takes a minute to complete.

sudo du -d 1 -x -c -g /

 

[slowmotionzx]

1/.DocumentRevisions-V100

1/.fseventsd

0/.PKInstallSandboxManager

1/.Spotlight-V100

0/.Trashes

0/.vol

19/Applications

1/bin

0/cores

1/dev

1/home

8/Library

1/net

0/Network

9/private

1/sbin

7/System

43/Users

1/usr

1/Volumes

86/

86total

 

[Weaselboy]

86total

This kinda bothers me a little. Even when the breakdown in that storage screen is wrong, the total just above that normally is correct and yours does not match with about 14GB difference.

Try a command-r boot to recovery and from there use Disk Utility to run a first aid on the disk. See if that reports any issues.

 

[slowmotionzx]

i think it may be coming from PKInstallSandboxManager, possibly because of a interrupted update

 

[Weaselboy]

i think it may be coming from PKInstallSandboxManager, possibly because of a interrupted update

Terminal is showing zero in there though?

 

[slowmotionzx]

o thatrefers to memory usage?

 

[Weaselboy]

o thatrefers to memory usage?

That Terminal command is showing disk storage space used in each of those base folders.

 

[slowmotionzx]

its gone now after i finished updating xcode ty for ur responses