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Thanks! I ran the utility and I got this message at its completion:
Finishing compaction… Reclaimed 466.1 GB out of 470.3 GB possible. The finder view still shows the 519.33gb file size. Will that be corrected the new time I run the backup? |
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No - if it didn't actually shrink the bundle, it sounds like the system determined it couldn't really shrink it. Note, too, that it's generally a mistake not to have the space for the bundle - perhaps you should resize the bundle (using the resize verb) to something smaller, if it's always going to be small?
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I was about to try the resize (after some research on it) and found that after dismounting the external HD and remounting it, the size now does appear at the smaller size. So it did apparently work with the compact -- it just wasn't reflecting that without some form of refresh to the volume info.
Yes, at this time it's going to be smaller -- but, of course, grow by smallish amounts as files are added (and removed). But not by the order of magnitude that was its former, original size. Thanks! |
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