Re: Hard Drive Space Question

2012-12-19 Thread Hai Nguyen Ly
Morning Emilio: I too ran in to a similar issue not too long ago when creating a bootable duplicate drive during an SSD upgrade. It took me a bit of head scratching and lots of checking to finally figure out that my mail directory and iOS backups were taking up a lot more space than I could have

Re: Hard Drive Space Question

2012-12-19 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I use superduper just fine with Mountain lion and I intend to continue to use it, especially after one incident where my Time machine backup couldn't be used; I think the more options you have, the better off you are. But I need you to clarify some things. 1. You are backing up from your hard dr

Re: Hard Drive Space Question

2012-12-19 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, At the risk of sounding obvious, it looks to me like a problem caused by Super Duper. I don't use Super Duper so I'm just guessing that it must be keeping log files, error files or some sort of data that is interfering with your HD space. May I ask why you chose Super Duper instead of sim

Re: Hard Drive Space Question

2012-12-19 Thread Emilio
> > I backed-up to an external CGate 3TB HD. The drive is partitioned into 1TB sections. For those familiar with Super Duper I backed-up with the first option because the manual hah reccommended to do so with a first back-up. This problem is very annoying because I should not be losing so much d

Re: Hard Drive Space Question

2012-12-18 Thread Tim Kilburn
Where/what device are you backing up to? Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2012-12-18, at 8:53 PM, Emilio Hernandez wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I recently back-up my hard drive the other day. > Today I got a message notifying me that my hard disk space was full. > I checked a

Hard Drive Space Question

2012-12-18 Thread Emilio Hernandez
Hello everyone, I recently back-up my hard drive the other day. Today I got a message notifying me that my hard disk space was full. I checked and sure enough I was already reaching my 1TB limit. I checked my home directory and everything is in order. I had this problem once before after performin