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Weird file taking up alot of space
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Do you have FileVault enabled? Which mac OS X version do you use? Where is that file exactly?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse_image, found via searching for "sparsebundle" or so.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse_image, found via searching for "sparsebundle" or so.
How can I get rid or it? Or can I get rid of it? I don't even use Timemachine on that laptop ... :S
Oddly enough i went from 20 to 12 gigs when I just tested it today... what is this thing?!?!
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A sparse bundle is an expanding disk image, normally they hold applicaitons that you download off of the Internet, or DVD images/etc.
It seems like you have created this, and then forgotten about it. Double click it to open it and see what is inside! If you don't need it, delete it.
Odds are, if FileVault is enabled, it's already open.
FileVault uses encrypted sparse disk images to encrypt your home folder. It then mounts them in place of your home folder when you log in. The location and size matches up.
Never dealt with FV, so I'm not too sure! It's clearly in a hidden user folder in /Users. I would have imagined that it would need a password to open (assuming, like you said, it wasn't already opened). FV makes sense then I guess, but at 12GB, I'm not very used to seeing things that small - given that my Library folder alone is +100GB
http://osxdaily.com/2011/09/28/disable-time-machine-local-backups-in-mac-os-x-lion/
It's probably the local time machine backup, which is enabled by default in lion. See the link for how to disable it, if you want.
It's probably the local time machine backup, which is enabled by default in lion. See the link for how to disable it, if you want.
I was under the impression that that file was hidden, in the system/library folder, not hidden as a user home folder??