HT3275 My iMac harddrive only has about 100 gb of use on it. But my backup disk has over 300 gb used up on it. Why would this be?

My iMac hard drive only has about 100 gb of use on it. But my backup disk has over 300 gb of usage on it. For instance, my iphoto library shows about 13 gb of photos but the backup disc shows almost 20 gb of photos in the iphoto library. Why would this be?

Because you are using Time Machine which is an archiving backup utility. Any change that is made to a file will cause another fully copy of the file to be backed up. Over time a Time Machine backup will take up an entire hard drive no matter how large the drive may be.

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Try a SMC reset:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201295
If this is an original battery, even with a low cycle count, it is old and probably should be replaced.
Ciao.

HT3275 Has anyone come across the red "i" message saying "The backup disk image "/Volumes/Chris...(the last bit being) iMac.sparsebundle" is already in use? This has prevented my time machine from backing up from this morning (5th Dec 2012).

Has anyone come across the red "i" message saying "The backup disk image "/Volumes/Chris...(the last bit being) iMac.sparsebundle" is already in use."?
As of yesterday (4th Dec 2012) everything was fine, no trouble or problems at all. Wake up this morning, turn on the computer and when it came time to backup itself, the message occurred above and this has prevented my time machine from backing up from this morning (5th Dec 2012) ever since then.
Everything on my computer is up-to-date but this problem still persists displaying this message practically every hour, on the hour and nothing is getting backedup!
If you know what is going on and more importantly, how to fix this, I would be indebted to you for sharing your knowledge with me on this subject.
Thank you.

Welcome to the Apple Support Communities
See > http://pondini.org/TM/C12.html

"The identity of the backup disk has changed..."

About 3 months ago I purchased my new MacBook Pro plus two WD 2TB network drives for Time Machine backups. One drive is kept at home and the other is at my office. (I believe in having backups at two physical locations.)
The drives at both places are identical, with identical names and in both cases are connected to a BT router/DSL modem.
All has been working nearly perfectly. (I say almost, because occasionally at home I'll get an error saying a backup couldn't be made because the disk wasn't available. Usually this clears up after a few subsequent attempts, or always after a reboot. Fortunately this doesn't happen often.)
However, I'm now getting an error message every time I move from one location to the other:
"The identity of the backup disk has changed since the previous backup.
The disk may have been replaced or erased, or someone may be trying to trick your computer into backing up to the wrong disk."
Fortunately, the dialog box is very visible and gives the option of going ahead and using the disk...which I do. As long as I'm in the same location, everything then continues to work without issue.
This is most odd, as neither disk name has been changed and I was working for 3 months without anything like this happening.
(I might add, with my previous Powerbook, I had an identical Firewire drive at both locations and having the dual backups worked flawlessly without issue for the entire time I used it...nearly two years.)
Anyone have any idea why this weird message is now surfacing after 3 months of working fine?

Pondini wrote:
There was a thread here a few months ago with a very nasty problem, where a user had 3 or 4 identical WD externals, with different names, and was trying to use one with Time Machine. But Time Machine would try to back up to the first one connected, regardless of name!
I didn't think it was possible, but sure enough, they all had the identical UUID from WD (they'd come formatted for a Mac, and the user had never reformatted or erased them, so OSX never put new UUIDs on them).
I wonder if the UUID would be copied over if a disk is cloned? When using my first pair of external LaCie Firewire drives, I first set just one up as a TM backup. After the setup and first backup was finished, I used Carbon Copy Cloner to create an exact duplicate to the second drive. I did that deliberately in hopes TM wouldn't be able to tell the difference. It apparently worked as I could connect either disk and Time Machine would readily connect without complaint. Either the cloning procedure worked, or perhaps the drives already had identical UUID's as happened with the WD drives you mentioned. Any thoughts on this?
Pondini wrote:
If you haven't, try turning Time Machine OFF before you get that message. Then select the NAS via Time Machine Preferences > Select Disk. I think that will reset the element in the plist mentioned in that thread, and the problem will go away.
I went ahead and tried this, but the condition still persists. When I have a chance, I'll go back and look at that other thread and see if I can glean anything useful from it. In the meantime, I may just have to live with the current situation. Thanks.

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Time Machine reports identity of backup disk has changed

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Cody DH wrote:
... I'm not sure if this is a bug in Mavericks, a bug with my Time Capsule, or something indicative of a hardware issue either at my MBP or my Time Capsule.
Any one of those is possible, and you have taken reasonable steps to resolve it. I suggest deleting the following file, which will reset Time Machine. Turn off Time Machine first, and make sure a backup is not in progress.
Triple click to select the entire line, then control-click and select Services > Reveal in Finder. Drag the selected file to the Desktop, or directly to the Trash:
/Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist
This will not delete your existing backups.
Turn on Time Machine and reselect your backup volume. The effect of deleting that file will cause erroneous values to be shown in the "backing up xxx of yyy" messages until the subsequent backup.
If this does not resolve the problem contact AppleCare because you should not be having these difficulties.

I get a message saying backup failed on my Time Machine because backup disk image is already in use. I am the only one using this machine.

My Time Capsule keeps telling me that backup failed because backup disk image is already in use. I'm the only one using this machine.

Pull the power cord from the back of the Time Capsule
Count to ten
Plug the power cord back into the back of the Time Capsule
Wait a few minutes, then try a backup

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bzq wrote:
Niel, I tried that several times but the Choose Library screen never appeared.
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HT3275 My iMac harddrive only has about 100 gb of use on it. But my backup disk has over 300 gb used up on it. Why would this be?

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