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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