My MacBook has almost no space left on the hard drive. System takes up 90% and interferes with all the other functions of the mac book.
MacBook Pro 15″, OS X 10.11
Time machine will not erase ANYTHING. Just use the article to start it up.
Time machine is easy and awesome, and works at low priority in the background, so you can continue to use your computer as Time machine does its job making an Additional copy of your files onto the backup drive, and does not delete anything.
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To take a look at space, use this article:
What is “Other” storage on a Mac, and how… - Apple Community
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beckley4 wrote:
Went to the genius bar with MacBook pro and time machine. The apple rep said the time machine was not working properly and sold me an external hard drive to back it up, but he didn't have time to back it up and I'm not comfortable doing it by myself.
Read the instructions for using Time Machine: Back up your Mac with Time Machine - Apple Support
What I understand from your posts is that you are currently backing up to your internal drive thereby causing it to become full and unusable. Backups should be done onto an external drive. Maybe this is why the clerk sold you an external drive.
Went to the genius bar with MacBook pro and time machine. The apple rep said the time machine was not working properly and sold me an external hard drive to back it up, but he didn't have time to back it up and I'm not comfortable doing it by myself.
The main problem is "System" is eating up all my hard drive space it's currently at over 250GB out of 251GB, and continues to grow. I've been eliminating files so that I can use email and other things that are not working because of lack of space.
Time machine is usually simple and trouble-free.
what issues are you encountering?
That's not what the genius said. Who do I believe?
are you already using a Time machine external drive that is malfunctioning?
That may be the case, I don't know. However the Genius told me my time machine was unreliable, and that I should not use it.
You can also ADD an additional backup destination drive at any time, and Time machine will start a new stand-alone backup on the added drive starting with today.
Every-other backup will be sent to every-other drive, and any drive can be removed and re-connected at any time.
My time machine is not working reliably. The genius bar sold me an external drive, but would not help me back it up. I need help so that I don't delete everything and can't get it back.
