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<blockquote data-quote="Rod" data-source="post: 1621030" data-attributes="member: 204485">So to sum up, If you are Using Time Machine to back up to your Seagate ext, HD it is stuffed now.&nbsp; You will need to erase it using Disk Utility, format it as Mac OS extended (journaled), Call it Time Machine, select it as the drive for Time Machine Backups in Time Machine Preferences and perform a new full back up.&nbsp; However you still have a system storage problem and the above will not fix that. So get yourself another external HD.&nbsp; As advised use Carbon Copy Cloner to create a Bootable Drive Clone of your HD.&nbsp; This is not difficult and we are happy to give advice on doing this should you have a problem or questions.&nbsp; The beauty of this is that although the drive you use for Time Machine should be a dedicated drive (nothing else but time machine) the drive you use for CCC can also be used for storage of other files.&nbsp; So before backing up with either TM or CCC use that drive to store some of your files to create at least 15% free space on your Mac HD.&nbsp; That way the backup process should go smoother.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rod, post: 1621030, member: 204485"] So to sum up, If you are Using Time Machine to back up to your Seagate ext, HD it is stuffed now. You will need to erase it using Disk Utility, format it as Mac OS extended (journaled), Call it Time Machine, select it as the drive for Time Machine Backups in Time Machine Preferences and perform a new full back up. However you still have a system storage problem and the above will not fix that. So get yourself another external HD. As advised use Carbon Copy Cloner to create a Bootable Drive Clone of your HD. This is not difficult and we are happy to give advice on doing this should you have a problem or questions. The beauty of this is that although the drive you use for Time Machine should be a dedicated drive (nothing else but time machine) the drive you use for CCC can also be used for storage of other files. So before backing up with either TM or CCC use that drive to store some of your files to create at least 15% free space on your Mac HD. That way the backup process should go smoother. [/QUOTE]

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