what is mobile backups?

[AlexQQQ]

Hi-
I am using istat pro to view my computer settings and such. Coming from snow leopard to mountain lion.

In mountain lion I have two disks, one macintosh HD and the other a mobile backups with 0 free storage. When I click on it I get backups.backupdb with tons of folders.

What is mobile backups? Am losing harddrive memory? can I get rid of it?

thanks.

Alex

 

[FrancescoZZ]

Same exact thing happening here

Even if it is benign/nothing to worry about, how could I go about removing it from the list in iStat? It's just there hogging screen space.

 

[Mr. Retrofire]

What is mobile backups?

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4878

Type this in a terminal window to disable local time machine backups:

sudo tmutil disablelocal

This deletes the local time machine backups. Enter your admin password, if necessary.

You should use an external disk for Time Machine backups.

 

[hafr]

You should use an external disk for Time Machine backups.

Using an external disk doesn't solve the local backups problem though, only the command you posted 🙂

 

[bpierce13]

How do i post this in the terminal?

I don't understand what you mean by posting that in the Terminal. Where do I find it? I'm not too tech savvy haha😀

 

[GGJstudios]

I don't understand what you mean by posting that in the Terminal. Where do I find it? I'm not too tech savvy haha😀

1. Press Command+spacebar to search with Spotlight
2. Type: Terminal.app
3. Press Enter

This may be useful:

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Portables Fast Start: The New User's Guide to Apple Notebooks

 

[DoctorCrap]

I think I faced the same situation as you have to.
I simply turned off my back up. For me it was Time Machine.
Hope that helped.