Time Machine backup not a large as amount of space used on harddrive

I just bought a new iMAC and Time Capsule and completed my first backup. In Disk Utility it shows that there is 151 GB of space used on the hard drive. The space used on the Time Capsule is 131 GB. I searched this topic and can't find it addressed before. Did Time Capsule not back up all the Hard Drive?

Thanks,

Carl

PowerBook G4, iMAC G5, Intel iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.6), iPod G4, iSight, Time Capsule , Canon Pixma MX860

Posted on Jul 7, 2009 9:44 AM

18 replies

Jul 30, 2009 8:54 AM in response to Pondini

Pondini,

I changed both those names deleting a lot of the punctuation and I am now getting successful backups. Thanks

Carl

Pondini

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Jul 30, 2009 8:57 AM in response to Carl Sutherland

Carl Sutherland wrote:
Pondini,

I changed both those names deleting a lot of the punctuation and I am now getting successful backups. Thanks

Yay! 🙂 You're quite welcome, and thanks for the star.

Jul 30, 2009 9:07 AM in response to PT

Patrick,

I looked further in Whatsize and saw that I had 12 GB in movies. I went to iTunes and my music folder shows 53 MB. My movies are an additional 12 MB and my audiobooks are an additional 2 MB which is about the total shown in Whatsize.

Thanks,

Carl

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