[OT] Mac Beach Ball Party (or welcome to hell, here's your mac)

[J. Landman Gay]

On 5/11/12 2:55 PM, Keith Clarke wrote:

> Lion seems to have more need of regular disk permissions clean-ups
> than SL and it gets very flakey, very quickly with limited disk space
> - as in<15% of a 500Gb drive!

I was just reading about that. The loss of disk space happens only on 
laptop Macs, not on desktop, and is due to "local snapshots" taken by 
Time Machine when your backup external drive isn't connected.

There's a terminal command to turn it off, and there's some other way to 
erase the snapshots but I've lost that link now. But here's how to turn 
it off:

<http://www.macpoint.be/lions-local-backup-devours-disk-space/>

If Stephen is on a MacBook maybe low disk space is what's causing the 
memory-swap beachball.

I do not like Lion at all, but we're forced into it if we want to 
continue as Mac developers.

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