This weekend, I installed a new hard drive on my girlfriend's mid-2010 15" MacBook Pro. I was replacing her 320gb drive with a 500gb WD drive. I cloned her old drive as a bootable copy onto an external using Super Duper, installed the new drive, formatted it, and transferred her data back using this method: http://www.macinstruct.com/node/130
NOW here's where it gets weird: while transferring her original data onto the new WD drive, it showed up as 445 GB of data--impossible, since her original 320gb HDD couldn't possibly hold that much. Now, if I go into disk utility, it shows that she has 274gb of "Backups" on the WD drive. How is this possible? Is TimeMachine somehow backing up to the internal drive?
We only cloned over 300 or so GB of data to the external drive, so how did I get this new gain of files? Weird compression issue maybe?
I really want to find out how to delete these local backup files and free up hard drive space, as that was the whole point of this process... I feel like I'm missing something simple. Please let me know if I need to clarify anything about what I've done; I hope I'm not being vague. Help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
NOW here's where it gets weird: while transferring her original data onto the new WD drive, it showed up as 445 GB of data--impossible, since her original 320gb HDD couldn't possibly hold that much. Now, if I go into disk utility, it shows that she has 274gb of "Backups" on the WD drive. How is this possible? Is TimeMachine somehow backing up to the internal drive?
We only cloned over 300 or so GB of data to the external drive, so how did I get this new gain of files? Weird compression issue maybe?
I really want to find out how to delete these local backup files and free up hard drive space, as that was the whole point of this process... I feel like I'm missing something simple. Please let me know if I need to clarify anything about what I've done; I hope I'm not being vague. Help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks!