Twice as much disk space used on external HD for TM than internal HD

Disk Utility shows the amount of disk space used by TM as 86 GB whereas the HD only shows 45 GB used. Also, the number of files and folders have nearly doubled in size. This from only two days of using TM.
My Seagate FreeAgent Go External Hard Drive for Mac - 500GB, USB 2.0, FireWire 800, FireWire 400 external hard drive has been partitioned into two segments, one for TM, the other for SuperDuper.

larry lund wrote:
Disk Utility shows the amount of disk space used by TM as 86 GB whereas the HD only shows 45 GB used. Also, the number of files and folders have nearly doubled in size. This from only two days of using TM.
My Seagate FreeAgent Go External Hard Drive for Mac - 500GB, USB 2.0, FireWire 800, FireWire 400 external hard drive has been partitioned into two segments, one for TM, the other for SuperDuper.
Since TM keeps previous version of things you've changed or deleted, in addition to everything currently on your system, yes, it will use more space.
But to be twice the size in two days is clearly not right. Chris is probably correct, that TM has been backing-up the SuperDuper "clone" as well. If so, you can delete the backups of it -- see #12 in the Frequently Asked Questions *User Tip,* also at the top of this forum.
If that's not the case, see #9 there for a way to find out what's taking up so much space. If you find things being backed-up that you don't recognize, post back with the name(s) and location(s); somebody here will likely know what they are.

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