{"id":2058,"date":"2011-10-22T10:16:01","date_gmt":"2011-10-22T14:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.midatlanticconsulting.com\/blog\/?p=2498"},"modified":"2011-10-22T10:16:01","modified_gmt":"2011-10-22T14:16:01","slug":"lion-unreported-disk-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midatlanticconsulting.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/lion-unreported-disk-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Lion- Unreported Disk Space"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago I had this issue. \u00a0I first sent it to Apple and they just replied saying it is behaving like normal. \u00a0Here is the scoop…..<\/p>\n

I had an issue over the weekend where a hard drive running Lion had 395 gigs on it when booted into Lion but 596 gigs when under snow leopard.<\/div>\n
I found a folder that was invisible called .mobilebackups which happened to be the exact size.<\/div>\n
I discovered that Lion looks for your time machine volume but if you are away from it, Lion makes local backups so you don’t loose data. \u00a0For someone like me who brings his laptop everywhere, that folder gets pretty large.<\/div>\n
Lion does not report that disk space because it has the right to erase those files if needed. \u00a0 So Lion actually gives you an incorrect amount of true free space.<\/div>\n
There are terminal commands (below) to disable the local backups that Lion makes. \u00a0 But according to Apple the computer will delete the space if needed so its not really there. \u00a0They are created only on MacBook (including Air) \u00a0or MacBookPro models.<\/div>\n
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Disable Time Machine Local Backup Storage<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how to turn off local backups:<\/p>\n

Launch Terminal from \/Applications\/Utilities Enter the following command:<\/p>\n

sudo tmutil disablelocal<\/p>\n

Enter the admin password when requested to disable local backups<\/p>\n

Re-Enable Local Time Machine Backups<\/p>\n

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\"page1image48680\"Launch Terminal from \/Applications\/Utilities Enter the following command:<\/div>\n
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sudo tmutil enablelocal<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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