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Very Strange File Count After ML - self healing
After installing ML in July I noticed that disk files as reported by Disk Utility went from a few hundred thousand to over 900k which surprised me. Also the Smart Backup time using SuperDuper went from about 5 minutes to 18 minutes.
To address the large increase in the number of files I used a program to purge all the non English localizations which reduced the 900k to about 700k. Then out of curiosity I started monitoring the disk file count every day. To my total surprise the file count went from about 700k to about 270k (See Graph). I haven't done anything that would significantly impact this. Also my total disk has remained constant Used: 30.4G, Capacity: 640G . My Smart Backup time is back to about 5 minutes. Any thought on what is going on here? Last edited by RobertJ; 09-08-2012 at 12:03 PM. |
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Probably the local snapshot...
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I don't use time machine and it is disabled. Also, I thought snapshots were not used on desktops. I'm on a Mac Pro.
Last edited by RobertJ; 09-08-2012 at 03:57 PM. |
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I don't know, then. It's not us!
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I know it's not YOU
I have posted this on the Mac forums but don't really expect an answer. Most of the folks that hang out there know less than I do; and, they are somewhat rude and opinionated compared to other forums. [I moderate the mozillazine forums with a few other folks] I though I'd throw out the question here since you seem to know everything Mac |
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Yeah, the thing I would have thought was the local snapshot. I mean, there are other things that'll take up space, but not this kind of thing with lots of files. Kind of weird.
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