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Sep 25, 2013 12:27 PM in response to Lane3yby Kappy,I would erase the drive and start over before assuming the drive is failing.
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Sep 25, 2013 1:56 PM in response to Lane3yby Linc Davis,The Finder can't accurately calculate the size of that folder.
Select the icon of the volume in the sidebar of a Finder window and open the Info window.
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Sep 25, 2013 6:01 PM in response to Linc Davisby Lane3y,I did use Info to measure the backup.backupdb folder, and that is how I got the 6.9 TB size. Can I trust the value that Info returns?
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Sep 25, 2013 6:31 PM in response to Lane3yby Linc Davis,No. I'm suggesting you look at the size of the volume, not the size of the folder. They're calculated in different ways.
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Feb 2, 2014 5:26 AM in response to Lane3yby Dimme,Did you find a soulation to this issue. I have run into the same issue and can't seem to solve it.
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May 22, 2014 3:59 PM in response to Lane3yby faultyrec1,I, too, have the same problem.. I'm backing up a 1TB drive (that is not full), onto an internal 2TB drive on my 2006 Mac Pro running 10.6.8, and the "backupdb" file size is 50TBs!
Does anyone have any suggestions?
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Jun 23, 2014 4:36 PM in response to Lane3yby anomrabbit,I have this problem as well. I have two laptops backed up to the same external hard drive, and I would like to move just one of the laptop's backups to a new drive. The partition for both is 600GB, but the size of one laptop's backup folder is 850GB and for the other it is 3.3TB.
I would like to know the actual size of each laptop's backup folder. Getting the size of the volume is not useful because I need to know the sizes of the two individual backup folders within it.
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Apr 3, 2016 8:02 PM in response to Lane3yby coolguy 73,can you reply with a picture of inside the backup folder?