{"id":588,"date":"2010-12-31T22:09:06","date_gmt":"2011-01-01T05:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.52techtips.com\/blog\/?p=588"},"modified":"2010-12-31T22:09:31","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T05:09:31","slug":"end-of-year-time-machine-cleanup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/52techtips.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/31\/end-of-year-time-machine-cleanup\/","title":{"rendered":"End of Year Time Machine Cleanup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the Holiday break I decided to do a little computer file cleanup. I noticed that the size of my Time Machine backup had grown quite large (Approx 850 GB). That&#8217;s right, 850 GB. I decided I didn&#8217;t that many backups and proceeded to delete nearly all of the backup files save a few key ones. I then noticed that the .sparsebundle that is my backup was still reporting a file size of 850 GB. After doing a little google searching I found that this is common. I also found a way to manually compact the sparsebundle to reclaim some of that unused space. The trick was to use The Terminal.<\/p>\n<p>Helpful Links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hintsforums.macworld.com\/archive\/index.php\/t-84284.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/hintsforums.macworld.com\/archive\/index.php\/t-84284.html<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/forums.macrumors.com\/archive\/index.php\/t-783907.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/forums.macrumors.com\/archive\/index.php\/t-783907.html<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here is what I did since my backup has spaces in the filename.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Launch Terminal<\/li>\n<li>cd \/Volumes<\/li>\n<li>sudo -s<\/li>\n<li>ls (to view the Volumes)<\/li>\n<li>cd &#8220;Time Capsule Disk&#8221; (I had to include the quotes)<\/li>\n<li>hdiutil compact *.sparsebundle<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If all goes according to plan, you should see the following messages:<\/p>\n<p>Starting to compact&#8230;<br \/>\nReclaiming free space<br \/>\n&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<br \/>\nFinishing compaction&#8230;<br \/>\nReclaimed xxx.x GB out of xxx.x GB possible<\/p>\n<p>I reclaimed 507.5 GB!!! Your results may vary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the Holiday break I decided to do a little computer file cleanup. I noticed that the size of my Time Machine backup had grown quite large (Approx 850 GB). That&#8217;s right,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[34,191,223,190,192,189,188,187],"class_list":["post-588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-backup","tag-compact","tag-mac","tag-resize","tag-sparsebundle","tag-terminal","tag-time-capsule","tag-time-machine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/52techtips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/52techtips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/52techtips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/52techtips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/52techtips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/52techtips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":592,"href":"https:\/\/52techtips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions\/592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/52techtips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/52techtips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/52techtips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}