My hard drive have free space over the limit...
Hi every one, I've a strange issue here. My HD indicate me that I've more space than it should but in «About This Mac» and «System Report» I've 36GB left. The strange thing is that there is about 217Gb of Backup? What is wrong...
Do you use Time Machine? If not, do you have it enabled?
If so, it appears to be making backups of your system on your hard drive.
Here is some info:
http://pondini.org/TM/30.html
FWIW, you should not have your backup on your startup drive - if something goes wrong with your drive, you will also lose your backup.
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