Tony T1 wrote:
I would agree, but 44G?, leaving 33G free?
OSX will start deleting at 90% on a large drive, less on a smaller one. It can take a while for them to be deducted from the Storage display, unfortunately, as that's driven by Spotlight.
When I'm in range of my TM I have no use for local backups, if on the road, then its useful to me
Right. But if possible, you'd like at least some of the backups you made before you left, since the TM backups aren't travelling along.
(originally the idea was that local backups would occur when away from TM,
No, from the earliest beta, they were made whether the TM destination was available or not. (Actually, on the first few, they were on by default even if TM was off!) And there was a separate checkbox on the TM Prefs > Options panel. They refuse to bring that back (so folks wouldn't have to use tmutil).
and that it woud sync with TM when connected.
Yes, in the early versions it copied them to the TM destination when it became available. Took forever.
Other than confusing folks (they're counted by Disk Utility and the Storage display, but not by the Finder?), in most cases they're really not a problem. They do need to fix the handling when copying large amounts of data to it, of course.
