Re: back-up disk anomalies

In article <%ARMi.39592$nO3.12561@edtnps90>,
me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Király) wrote:

heron stone <heronDO@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
so you guys are saying that 14 GBs is not an outrageous amount of disk
space to not copy.

it seems a lot to me.

Try rebooting your Mac. That will clear a lot of the temporary and
virtual memory swap files. Then compare the size of your boot drive to
the size of your backup. I bet you'll find the size difference to be
much smaller. I often gain several GB on my boot drive simply be
rebooting.


nice idea

but i only gained back 200MBs of the 14GBs

i say ONLY 200 MBs

i remember when my entire computing world existed
on a 40 MB HD

hahaha

hell... i remember the original mac
for me, everything... system plus apps and docs existed
on a single 400Kb floppy

now 400MBs is insignificant... amazing

heron

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