So I just bought a 17" MacBook Pro a couple of months ago and of course I now want one of the new Retina Display models as I'm getting into photography and love how sharp everything is on my iPad 3 and want that for my MacBook pro. SO, I'm going through and trying to delete stuff off of my current MacBook pro so that I'll be able to scale down to the 256gb SDD. I've got a little over 220gb or so at the moment. However, when I go and check "Storage" under "My Mac" it says I have 80gb worth of backups? I find this odd as I thought all those were stored on my Time Capsule itself is it not? If not, is there a way to save those backups onto the Time Calsule instead of my MacBook Pro? Or even just limit my back ups to a total of just 4 and have it do a backup once a week type of thing?
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What's with 80gb worth of backups on my HD?
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If you're wondering what "Other" category in the Lion storage tab is about, this may help explain:
For space issues not explained by the above, there are a few things you can try, some of which may or may not apply:
For space issues not explained by the above, there are a few things you can try, some of which may or may not apply:
- Begin by restarting your computer as a first step. This sometimes resolves issues.
- For Time Machine users on notebooks running Lion, space may being consumed by Time Machine local snapshots, which can be disabled.
OS X Lion: About Time Machine's "local snapshots" on portable Macs - Search with Finder to see if the space is being consumed by a very large file or several large files. Adjust the 50GB in the illustration to whatever size you deem appropriate.
- Use OmniDiskSweeper, JDisk Report, Disk Inventory X, DaisyDisk or GrandPerspective to see how space is being used on your drive. Some of these apps may show more detail than others, so try several.
- Check your drive with Disk Utility: Using Disk Utility to verify or repair disks
- Try re-indexing your drive: Spotlight: How to re-index folders or volumes
It's not under the "other" part though...theres "Music", "Movies", "Applications", "Photos", "Backups", and "Other". And that's exactly how it appears...I'll have to put up a pic when I get home from work.
The "Other" was only the first issue in that post. Did you read about Time Machine backups? Did you read the rest of the post, including recommendations for apps to use in searching?
Ah, sorry. That's completely my fault. You started talking about the "other" part and I assumed you had went on a tangent somewhere else without reading first. My apologies and thank you for your help!