Did 10.5.6 or torrenting cause this?
Time Machine had been chugging along since I upgraded from Tiger to Leopard in September, saving backups to my external G-drive. I applied the 10.5.6 update Wednesday evening. Yesterday I ventured into the wonderful eerie world of torrents, and started downloading a big one. At some point later on Time Machine started complaining that my backup disk was full and it was going to start deleting backups to make space. Fine, I thought, I don't need four months worth of backups. Well, the **** thing deleted all the backups from 2008--and it is STILL saying the disk is full and threatening to delete more, although I have only about 4 backups left. So I turned it off for now.
I notice there's at least one thread about TM going wack after 10.5.6. Could it have caused this, or is the torrent making it think the backups are much bigger than they are, or... ? Obviously, I'm a concerned and unhappy camper... Everything else seems OK.
Aha, thank you. It was the "incremental" concept I was missing, of course. Maybe I will get this in baby steps with your help...
So far we seem to be looking toward the torrenting as the culprit, but my puzzlement continues. The torrents (two) are still in progress, showing 28% complete, and the folder on my desktop that the client (BitTorrent) created for them is empty. Zero K. (There are corresponding .torrent files outside that folder, but they read as being only 44K in size.) My entire desktop folder in all its cluttered glory is only 5.35 GB. My ubergeeky friend who torrents constantly says it is normal for a torrent not to show up in a file directory until the download finishes. So what would Time Machine be seeing or saving at this point that makes it think it has no room to continue backing up?
I have already excluded the BitTorrent Downloads folder, and I guess I'll turn TM back on and see what it does. I'm very reluctant to get into changing the partitioning of the external drive yet.
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☞ By modifying the operating system, the software may also create weaknesses that could be exploited by malware attackers.
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