Perhaps a "stupid" question:
I have a mid 2012 MacBook Pro with 750GB SATA internal drive,
but only 90GB FREE (12%) and 170GB "Backups"!!
HUH? What/where are these backups?
I have 2 Time Capsules + SuperDuper + Carbon Copy Cloner - all on external HDs.
So what/how are there these backups?? I am psycho-blocking on how/where to look for these backups on the MBP.
MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.2), 8GB SDRAM; 750GB HD
Thank you for reply.
I have read the 2 url's cited. but am not completely satisfied. I know they say Time Machine will remove/cease making local backups under certain conditions. Why have them if they are not available (greyed out) when I enter Restore mode? 12% is getting to be low free space.
Is there not a way to stop this gizmo myself?
This has re-appeared when I found it necessary to erase both Time Capsules recently and acquire a complete new TM backup. (I had encountered this quirk before but got rid of it, reappearing with new full backup)
Under Lion (and Mountain Lion) I was able to stop this by entering command sudo tmutil disable localinto Terminal and was able to recover space used for local backups.
Per a thread posted Mar. 5 & 7, 2014 https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5967190
Is it possible & SAFE to use this Terminal command in Yosemite?
You are welcome. Next time you are in Time Machine, to see all mounted volumes shift - command - c. Information learned from Linc Davis. See if they will load.
170GB of Backups? !!
