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.


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