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Just updated maverick to 10.9.3 … and lost 5GB instantly. I got a backup to prove it.
And furthermore, my SSD partition, without OS and data, should have 15GB more available (I checked with GrandPerspective software : 95GB of capacity, 65GB used ...). Any thoughts about it ? Is the time of uncleaned OSX Leopard back ?
Thanks in advance
MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.3), SSD powered
It could be your Time Machine local backup files. If you attach your Time Machine it should dump any local snapshots to your Time Machine drive. However sometimes this fails. If you turn Time Machine on/off it will delete the local files. Only delete if you can afford to lose those backups.
How could it be ? As I have a separate HD for Time Machine backup ...
And when it is not connected Time Machine will save backups on your SSD as snapshots. Plug your TM drive in and let it complete a backup.
Actually, I only use TM before major updates. It doesn't 'run' constantly.
In this particular case, I just launched it once, made the backup, then stopped it and removed the TM HD.
So it's making local backups and is probably not being given the time to absorb them into the main backup.
Plug it in, let the backup complete, then check the drive space.
Time Machine needs to be running all the time. You can't plan for problems. It's not always an update that causes an issue.
I suggest you check out a clone for backup. This would give you the easiest way to revert to the previous version after a failed update.
Both of these applications can be used to create a clone.
SuperDuper! http://www.shirt-pocket.com/
CCC http://www.bombich.com/download.html
SuperDuper includes a sandbox feature that makes it very easy to revert to the previous version.
I just started the laptop, and the free space seems to be as large as it should be before the backup.
I will have a look to the clones apps, but I've chosen the TM way in order to clean completely my SSD, before re-intalling clean TM backups (a way to maintain my SSD without the Trim enabled, as it's not a leisure Mac SSD).
But could you explain why there is still a gap between the real used space and the available space ? As I said in my first post, the partition is about 95GB, I use 65Gb and there is only 19GB available ... any idea ?
Thanks for the answers, by the way.
See the section "Checking free disk space" on this link.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4878
BTW, is the trash empty?
Maverick 10.9.3 update made me lost 5GB of free space instantly
