Q: Local Storage Confusion
I am confused how to free up space on my local storage. My mac says my backups are taking up almost 180gb... I think they are local snapshots from my Time Machine but I feel like that shouldn't be happening.
I used a disk utility map to see what was taking up space and it looked like it was all backups?
Any help is appreciated!
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11)
Posted on Nov 7, 2015 3:22 PM
Just to let you know what OTHER is:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202867
That Storage Display program has a bug in it because it often gives incorrect data. My guess is that if you subtract the 'backups', the numbers will correlate with the GENERAL display (the second one).
Download from the Internet OmniDuskSweeper and Grand Perspective (both free) and open them. They will show all of your files and the respective sizes. This should allow you to determine where the discrepancies lie.
Ciao.
Posted on Nov 7, 2015 3:59 PM


