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Jul 18, 2015 5:52 AM in response to maharithoby AdrianHunter,I'm confused, you backup Time Machine to the same hard drive? Because that is pretty useless imo.
Backups are mostly for when your drive fails and putting your backups on that same drive spells disaster.
Always backup using a external or network drive, NOT in the same machine.
What if the drive fails and you have to replace it? ALL your data will be gone!
Get an external drive (1 TB USB3 = 59,-) make a new backup and remove the old backups from the drive and safe 120 GB space.
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Jul 18, 2015 6:40 AM in response to maharithoby OGELTHORPE,First understand what those backups represent:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204015
I suggest that you run a Time machine backup and see what happens.
If no success, reindex Spotlight:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201716
There is a bug in that display program and often it is not accurate.
Ciao.
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Jul 18, 2015 9:28 AM in response to maharithoby Linc Davis,When Time Machine backs up a portable Mac, some of the free space will be used to make local snapshots, which are backup copies of recently deleted files. The space occupied by local snapshots is reported as available by the Finder, and should be considered as such. In the Storage display of System Information, local snapshots are shown as Backups. The snapshots are automatically deleted when they expire or when free space falls below a certain level. You ordinarily don't need to, and should not, delete local snapshots yourself.
