HI, during Saturday i was consolidating the photos back up for my mother in law (she has no computer) using my wife’s MacBook Pro. My wife has her Photos library on an exclusive Photos only external 1TB drive. So I created a second library “Carol” on the external drive to import photos for my mother in law alongside the existing System library (420GB) for Jo. This import all went very successfully but the next time a TM backup came around, as expected it recognised the new library (~4GB) but the backup was ~460GB in size. Given that the original library was unchanged and nothing in particular was changed on the main SSD, why would TM decide the entire external drive plus other material it seems, needed backing up again. I connected it to the Ethernet to speed this process which finished during the night but I am puzzled why TM decided to apparently update such a large quantity of data. My TC 3TB drive is now down to 1.2TB remaining which is still plenty, but has copped 455GB it didn’t need to and reduced my balance unnecessarily.
Any clues why this would happen and how can I undo this other than blowing away the whole backup file and redoing a full new backup? Regards Pete -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
