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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bobtomay" data-source="post: 1631121" data-attributes="member: 24160">Is Time Machine turned on and not connected to an external drive to make the backups?  If so, it's filling your drive with local backups (or snapshots) until it gets connected.  You can turn off those local backups via a terminal command - <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/09/28/disable-time-machine-local-backups-in-mac-os-x-lion/" target="_blank">link</a>.  Disabling them will delete all the current local backups.Really want to see what is taking space on your drive, grab an app like Disk Inventory X (free) or WhatSize (I highly recommend this one, although they may be pricing themselves out of the market at their current price point).</blockquote>