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Hard drive 'lost' space after upgrade to Mountain Lion
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<blockquote data-quote="Slydude" data-source="post: 1523758" data-attributes="member: 131855"><p>That might not be the cause of your lost space but it is one thing to look at since it is a relatively ne feature any often forgotten. </p><p></p><p>From what you are saying that might not be the issue but here's one way to get a rough idea whether that's a problem.</p><p></p><p>1. Open the Time Machine program like you are going to restore a file. In other words go to the Time Machine program not the preference pane. </p><p>2. Look at the tick marks on the right side of the screen. The gray tick marks are local snapshots stored on the internal drive. Normally Time Machine is supposed to release that space if drive space gets low but something mat have gone wrong there.</p><p></p><p>For the password you must be logged in under an administrator account. Then use the password for that account. So If Bullwinkle is the account name and "Rocky" is the password type Rocky at the prompt and hit Return/Enter.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Slydude, post: 1523758, member: 131855"] That might not be the cause of your lost space but it is one thing to look at since it is a relatively ne feature any often forgotten. From what you are saying that might not be the issue but here's one way to get a rough idea whether that's a problem. 1. Open the Time Machine program like you are going to restore a file. In other words go to the Time Machine program not the preference pane. 2. Look at the tick marks on the right side of the screen. The gray tick marks are local snapshots stored on the internal drive. Normally Time Machine is supposed to release that space if drive space gets low but something mat have gone wrong there. For the password you must be logged in under an administrator account. Then use the password for that account. So If Bullwinkle is the account name and "Rocky" is the password type Rocky at the prompt and hit Return/Enter. [/QUOTE]
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