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What's up with this time machine error?
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Oct 3, 2008, 05:45 AM
 
Am I missing something obvious?
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Oct 3, 2008, 09:21 AM
 
Originally Posted by driven View Post
Am I missing something obvious?

I think you need at least TWICE the required space, ie ≈ 120gb

Something to do with backing up the backup before erasing.

A bit like emptying lots of data in TRASH when there is little HDD space left.

Similar error message.

See
http://discussions.apple.com/message...sageID=7963125
3rd post down for starters
(Last edited by MacNNUK; Oct 3, 2008 at 09:28 AM. )

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Oct 3, 2008, 11:13 AM
 
Awesome. Thanks! I appreciate it.
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