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iMazing taking up 200GB of drive space!
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1825900" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>Yes, they use links to files that are unchanged, much like TM does. So you need to delete backups through iMazing. But the issue I had was that after telling iMazing to use a different location for backups, making a backup to that location and deleting all other backups through iMazing, it did NOT release the 200GB of space it was taking. At one point the tech from DigiDNA said that to get the true space taken, you navigate in Terminal to the backup location and do a du -h command to get the real disk used. I did that, it totaled 200GB. So it may have had links, but despite being deleted, it didn't delete when iMazing was told to delete it. </p><p></p><p>I've now reinstalled and re-registered iMazing and am in the process of making the first backup. It's been about 1.5 hours and it isn't done. It keeps getting to about 20% done and then restarting. I've now changed cables and am trying again. No error messages, it just stops and cycles back to the beginning. I'm watching both the target drive, which is being written to, and the internal drive, which so far is not.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1825900, member: 396914"] Yes, they use links to files that are unchanged, much like TM does. So you need to delete backups through iMazing. But the issue I had was that after telling iMazing to use a different location for backups, making a backup to that location and deleting all other backups through iMazing, it did NOT release the 200GB of space it was taking. At one point the tech from DigiDNA said that to get the true space taken, you navigate in Terminal to the backup location and do a du -h command to get the real disk used. I did that, it totaled 200GB. So it may have had links, but despite being deleted, it didn't delete when iMazing was told to delete it. I've now reinstalled and re-registered iMazing and am in the process of making the first backup. It's been about 1.5 hours and it isn't done. It keeps getting to about 20% done and then restarting. I've now changed cables and am trying again. No error messages, it just stops and cycles back to the beginning. I'm watching both the target drive, which is being written to, and the internal drive, which so far is not. [/QUOTE]
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