[jorgem4]

So, i love the time machine feature in Leopard... but yesterday i turned off Time Machine cause i was dealing with some HUGE files i did not need to back-up they were just passing through my computer. Today i turned on time machine again, and when it went to do the back-up now tells me that it needs ~15Gb and there are only ~8Gb available on the disk !...

I can't do then another back-up ?!? It is like i'm stuck !!!

Any ideas ? I don't even know what changed so much in my computer from one day to another for the pending back-up to be ~15Gb.

Thanks.

[Andy8]

Time Machine should just start to overwrite the oldest backup with the newest one once the destination disk is full.

System Preferences > Time Machine > Options > Warn when old backups are deleted

[jorgem4]

Thanks Andy, but i do have that option checked...

It still asks for ~15Gb and only ~8Gb are available.

[jorgem4]

I just got it to work. The situation was that i was updating WOW, and i hadn't playing it in soooo long that the game had to download a huge amount of patches and updates. Well my WOW folder now is ~12Gb !.... So i excluded that from the Time Machine backup and it worked !

Nevertheless, the problem described above from the original post remains.

On another note, does WOW take that much space ? Or can i throw away all does "patch" and "downloader" files ?

[Rumor]

You should just throw away WoW altogether.