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Apple fail.

Today, my Mac's available disk space keeps dropping. I keep deleting stuff and disk space keeps dropping to where applications stop working and I apparently have less than 100M left. I'm panicking a bit because I keep deleting things and it gets worse not better.

Finally, I kill time machine. I haven't deleted any more files and have not done anything since, but now I have 135G free on disk.

What the?

Like 19 May at 3:32 | Open on social.coop

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🍋 Superball ☀️

@J12t
Time Machine must have been running backwards. 😁

19 May at 3:35 | Open on norcal.social

Bryan Whitehead

@J12t
Plugin your Time Machine disk to get all the snapshots moved over (or delete the local snapshots).

Also spend some time excluding directories that maybe don’t need to be included in snapshots like ~/Downloads or ~/Library/Mail

https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-12803

19 May at 3:57 | Open on macaw.social

Johannes Ernst

@Bryan I know, been doing this for a long time. Just today Time Machine went haywire to the tune of 135G and I'm sure it would have kept going. After restarting it, now it happily backs up to the external disk and my local disk continues to have 135G free space.

19 May at 4:12 | Open on social.coop

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