Today I bought a harddrive and backed my computer up to it. Now when I look at the storage of my mac over 50% of it is said to be backups and it wasn't like this before. Is there a way for me to get rid of this?
Please help!
MacBook Pro
Do "Backups" appear on your Mac's hard drive, on the external drive or on both of them? It's normal that you see "Backups" on the external drive, but also it's normal to see "Backups" on the Mac's hard drive if you are using OS X Mountain Lion. That's because OS X creates local snapshots on the hard drive > http://pondini.org/TM/30.html
If you want, you can delete or turn them off, but they are automatically deleted when the hard drive gets full, so you don't have to worry about that. Apart from that, if the external drive where you make Time Machine backups gets full, Time Machine will start automatically deleting old backups
Do "Backups" appear on your Mac's hard drive, on the external drive or on both of them? It's normal that you see "Backups" on the external drive, but also it's normal to see "Backups" on the Mac's hard drive if you are using OS X Mountain Lion. That's because OS X creates local snapshots on the hard drive > http://pondini.org/TM/30.html
If you want, you can delete or turn them off, but they are automatically deleted when the hard drive gets full, so you don't have to worry about that. Apart from that, if the external drive where you make Time Machine backups gets full, Time Machine will start automatically deleting old backups
Did you back up your mac with time machine or some other method. If you used time machine it is supposed to delete all the local backups stored on the internal drive when it does the backup to a external drive.
How do I delete the backup stored on my computer?
