MacHD Other moved to Backups

Like others, I noticed the 'other' section of my HD was high. First I backed up to my Time Capsule through Time Machine. Then I deleted files in my downloads folder, old device backups in iTunes, trash in iPhoto, and emptied the trash bin. After a restart I have not gain 1 kb of space on my HD. It appears that about 121 GB was removed from 'other' and just shuffled to 'backups'. Now I have 121 gb of 'backups'; how do I knock this down to make room on my HD?
Thanks,
Grace & Peace,
Jim

Guess this is what I needed to know,
•If you have a Laptop running Lion 10.7.x or later and using Time Machine, Local snapshots may take up a lot of space (but won't fill your HD past 80%). Note that they're not counted by the Finder (including Get Info on your HD), but are countedby Disk Utility and have a separate category on the Storage Display.
I'm getting ready to buy a new laptop but wanted to make sure I get one that has a large enough HD for me but this 120gb local snapshots was throwing me off. I guess I don't need to worry or consider it though while shopping for a new laptop.

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I cannot browse other time machine backups on my time capsule. I hold down the option key and select "browse other time machine backups in the menu bar icon and I see no backups. Then I mount the time machine backup disk and I only see the the backup for the machine that I am using to do this. However, there are backups for two machines on that disk. One is called "outis" and the other "phaedrus". On the phaedrus machine, outis is not browseable and on the outis machine, phaedrus is not visible.
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kathigitis wrote:
Am I mistaken or should all of this not happen and be available as soon as the TM disk is mounted?
I just checked and it works the same way for me so I guess not. you need to mount the other sparse bundle first before you can browse it.
That is to say, both backups are visible.
Should I now revert to disk password in the AP utility?
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Message was edited by: kathigitis

HT201250 How do you browse other time machine backups of other drives?

It seems to me that Time Machine used to display an option to "Browse other Time Machine backups."
For example, my iMac has its Time Machine external drives attached to it.
Both my iMac and my MacBook Pro back up to it, though my MacBook Pro does so wirelessly by connecting thru the iMac.
So how can I browse thru the backup of the MacBook Pro from my iMac, since the backup is actually located on the iMac's attached drive.
In Time Machine (or somewhere) it used to say "Browse other Time machine Backups."
I cannot seem to find that option any longer?

chaseholden wrote:
It seems to me that Time Machine used to display an option to "Browse other Time Machine backups."
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Doug Clo wrote:
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I have Intel - and the partition map scheme is Apple Partition Map - so that is wrong?
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I have two partitions on this drive. I've just moved a pile of stuff onto the other partition. Am I going to have to reformat the whole drive to get the TM working properly, and can I format just the partition I need?
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Charles C Lloyd wrote:
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patanfrana wrote:
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krreagan wrote:
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cationic wrote:
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that means you didn't reformat it before. new drives are usually formatted with MBR partition scheme and FAT file system which is wrong for TM. make sure you do it with GUID partition scheme as I said and the drive format is Mac OS extended. if you didn't change the partition scheme TM might work for a while but you may run into problems later. see this link
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Hi people!
This article: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5096
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Is this process the same in Mavericks?
Best regards, Ole

Elvis Boy wrote:
Eric Root wrote:
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Interesting! How is that done...?
Reading your post again, the word Restore is there...
- so, using Restore, it was easy. With the drag-and-drop described in the article linked in original post, I consistently got to about 24 GB's worth of transfer, then a flurry of error messages ending in aborting the transfer.
Also, the Finder window informing about that transfer showed a calculated duration of more than 6 hrs; with Disk Utillity it was done a little more than one hour, no hassle. Yay!
- only thing is that with Restore, the target volume is wiped before the transfer. But I can work around that. Thanks!

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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2986
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Message was edited by: V.K.

I was surprised to note that it took nearly the same amount of time as the Restore tab of Disk Utility (which I'd expected to be faster). So the only advantage I can see, even if it worked reliably, would be the ability to get the backups off a partition that has other data on it. Guess I'll have to change the FAQ yet again.
Mumble, grumble.
I still haven't heard back from them about the other issue where they changed the FAQ, about no full backup after a full restore, where you and I also get different results. Maybe I'll press the issue and add this one.
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