Resolving how 3rd party apps show free space?

I've recently upgraded to Mountain Lion and am now just learning about "Local Backups" and how they work. This seems like a pretty neat feature and great extra data protection. However, I now have trouble with 3rd party apps that monitor and notify about free space. (ie iStat Menus, TechTool Pro, Disk Inventory X). As I said, I think this new feature is great for added data protection, but it seems it has a huge flaw if it is going to make all other applications show incorrect Used/Free space. In fact, since the Local Backup seems to use as much space as it can and will only free the space as needed, it seems every application or tool will show that the disk is always on the verge of being completely full. Has anyone found ways around this? Or are there any good apps that monitor and/or display free space (like iStat Menus) that can account for, or rather disregard, the space being used by Local Backup in the same way that the Finder window seems to? I hope that in future OS updates, Apple does something about this like making the space used by Local Backup hidden in some way.

Sorry, you didn't get my point:
'Unintentional' means accidentally. I always wonder how people can delete files 'accidentally', requiring trashing them and then, in a second step, empty the trash.
I do not empty my trash before having backed up, as I was pointing out. If I did, it would not be 'unintentionally'. It would be intentionally. And I should get fired. Unless I can have the backup drive there within 40 minutes.
My point is, YOU're heading to work in the morning, not having backed up for the past 2 weeks to the external disk since your backup is always with you on your 4 months old Mac, still under warranty and unlikely to break anyway. Crossing the street from the parking lot, you need to jump to avoid some crazy driver. You make it, only your laptop slips from under your arm, drops onto the tar, and worse, before you can grab it, that bus is rolling over it. The HDD/SSD/whatever is history, and so is your work and some other important coroprate docs worth 2 weeks. Will you continue to walk into the office to resign, or will you ask the bus driver to run you over as well, please?
My view is unchanged.
Can we stop this here, please? My data is safe, and yours I've written off a while ago.

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