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Jan 22, 2016 6:51 AM in response to jonmcclayby jonmcclay,I'm downloading the 10.11.3 update now. Maybe that will fix this.
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Jan 22, 2016 8:36 AM in response to jonmcclayby Acm001,The purple backups are time machine local backups. They are saved locally then transferred to your external hard drive when its reconnected and time machine runs. Sometimes they don't.
About Time Machine local snapshots - Apple Support
You can clear them out.
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Jan 22, 2016 6:53 PM in response to jonmcclayby Linc Davis,You may notice a difference in available space statistics between Disk Utility, Finder, and Get Info inspectors. This is expected and can be safely ignored. The Finder displays the available space on the disk without accounting for the local snapshots, because local snapshots will surrender their disk space if needed.

