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Partition is Empty in Finder but Not in Get Info or Disk Utility
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<blockquote data-quote="mb300e" data-source="post: 1667454" data-attributes="member: 342473"><p>Hi Jake,</p><p></p><p>I am using TM to back up my first drive to a second drive, and decided I did not want TM to keep filling up the second HD with backup files until it was full leaving no space for anything else.</p><p></p><p>A couple of minutes ago, I went back to Disk Utility and could see the space taken up by the non-existant files in the smaller partition so I took a chance and hit Format. That did it, it cleared out whatever was causing the problem...your guess is as good as mine, but I am sure there is a simple explanation for this.</p><p></p><p>It would be nice if one could simply select a maximum backup size in TM rather that letting it control me and running wild with the MT space on my drive. I have been keeping it turned off for the most part, just turning it on occasionally. But today I decided to do something about it so figured I could reign it in by limiting the partition size where it could save the back ups. I have excluded all drives except the the one where the op sys is installed and I have excluded the USERS folder. All my docs and pictures etc, and I nave tens of thousands are backed up on several other large drives.</p><p></p><p>Thanks very much.</p><p></p><p>Peter B.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mb300e, post: 1667454, member: 342473"] Hi Jake, I am using TM to back up my first drive to a second drive, and decided I did not want TM to keep filling up the second HD with backup files until it was full leaving no space for anything else. A couple of minutes ago, I went back to Disk Utility and could see the space taken up by the non-existant files in the smaller partition so I took a chance and hit Format. That did it, it cleared out whatever was causing the problem...your guess is as good as mine, but I am sure there is a simple explanation for this. It would be nice if one could simply select a maximum backup size in TM rather that letting it control me and running wild with the MT space on my drive. I have been keeping it turned off for the most part, just turning it on occasionally. But today I decided to do something about it so figured I could reign it in by limiting the partition size where it could save the back ups. I have excluded all drives except the the one where the op sys is installed and I have excluded the USERS folder. All my docs and pictures etc, and I nave tens of thousands are backed up on several other large drives. Thanks very much. Peter B. [/QUOTE]
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