On Oct 8, 2009, at 4:12 PM, David Cowdrill wrote: > Problem: I customarily backup to an attached drive using SuperDuper. > I tried Time Machine and it failed reporting not enough space. Using > OmniDiskSweeper > I find that the biggest folder is 74 GB, named "bands"; it has hundreds of 8 > MB file with > hexadecimal file names. Question: what is "bands"? Can I delete it?
Very large files may be stored as a collection of smaller files. These are called bands. When a part of that huge file changes only the changed bands are copied. It could be a very bad idea to delete this. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
