Thanks Cara, THis was a fascinating read. It didn't solve my issue because time machine snapshots are currently only using 1.6 MB. Something called "other" is using up 94 gb of 250 gb with no indication of what "other" is.
I learned a lot from reading the article though. Best, Erik Burggraaf > On Nov 28, 2015, at 4:45 AM, Cara Quinn <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Erik, > > It sounds like you may have your local backups enabled. If you have Time > Machine enabled but do not have your backup drive connected, TM saves backups > to your local drive. > > Needless to say, this can take up an awful lot of space and be incredibly > confusing to trace if you are not aware of the feature. > > These backups are managed automatically by TM and should limit themselves to > 80% of your available drive space and be deleted or shrunken when space is > needed for other processes. > > Personally, I have chosen to disable local backups as I back up my machine > frequently and redundantly, so I would rather have my SSD space back. > > There are terminal commands you can enter to disable or enable TM local > backups which require that you enter your system password. So if you are not > comfortable with the terminal I would suggest not doing this right away until > you get familiar with it, and are sure that this is something you need or > wish to do. > > If you have experience with the terminal, here is a link to the info you will > need. > > http://www.mactricksandtips.com/2013/07/view-disable-local-snapshots-backups-in-time-machine.html > > I will not post the terminal commands here since not only are they not meant > for the average user to be entering but the terminal may not be forgiving of > mistakes so it can be easily possible to make catastrophic changes to your > system. So I’ll let y'all read up on this one yourselves. :) > > Erik, hope this helps and have a great weekend! > > Cheers! > > Cara > --- > iOS design and development - LookTel.com > --- > View my Online Portfolio at: > > http://www.onemodelplace.com/models/Cara-Quinn > > Follow me on Twitter! > > https://twitter.com/ModelCara > > On Nov 27, 2015, at 5:25 PM, erik burggraaf <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, I did have a look at activity monitor today when I happened to be > sitting in front of my computer and heard the fan spin up. > > I'm sure I'm missing something, but it wasn't apparent to me which piece of > info showed the disk space usage. Do I have to do something special to see > that item? > > Best, > > Erik Burggraaf > > >> On Nov 26, 2015, at 6:23 AM, Tyler Thompson <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Have you checked your activity monitor? It can show you what process is >> eating up all that space. Once you’re aware of which process is causing the >> issue we can start narrowing down a good solution. >> >> >>> On Nov 26, 2015, at 12:19 AM, erik burggraaf <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, I'm having a very strange problem. At first I believed it might be my >>> 4-year-old SSD showing it's age, but I don't know... >>> >>> Last week my mac reported that I was low on disk space. So, I moved 20 gb >>> of files off into storage drives. An hour after moving all the files, my >>> mac again reported low on disk space, and when I looked, sure enough my >>> disk appeard to be full. >>> >>> Today I moved 11 gb more files off to storage and was breathing easy when >>> my mac once again reported my disk to be full and sure enough it seems to >>> be. >>> >>> I'm not putting any more files onto my disk though since the first time >>> this happened. >>> >>> I've run apples disk checking utilities and they tell me my disk is OK for >>> what that's worth. My disk's size appears normal. 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