Aha, Might have found an answer to Question 1: http://www.tuaw.com/2011/07/20/lion-and-time-machine-offline-backups-and-document-locks/
Seems TM now keeps a locally cached copy if you are away from your TM drive. Hope it deletes it from my internal HDD once its done.... On 24 July 2011 20:29, Russell Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > Evening Smuggers > > Two questions if I may: > > 1 - How on earth do I figure out what is being backed up that would result > in a 20GB backup, when the last back up was only a few days ago, after a > Lion install, with no photos, minimal emails and no new apps? > > 2 - Can a new computer (planning on an iMac in next few months) be set up > with 2 user accounts from different TimeMachine backups? The old iMac > contains my wife's account, my macbook is the other. I'd like to get both > on to the new machine. Hopefully I will also have an iPad to retire the > macbook. > > Thanks > > Russell -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
