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@MechaMorgan
Alright team, I'm wondering if the more technically minded of you might give me a heads up.
15" late '08 Macbook Pro, backing up wirelessly via Time Machine to a 2TB External Drive, partitioned in half.
Basically, my Mac told me the external drive was full, and after adding the file sizes together I was coming up about 400GB short. I've had a fiddle and this is basically all taken up with a hidden* HFS+ Private Directory*. Apparently, from a quick Google, this deals with hard-linked files and is fairly important for the running of your Mac. However, whilst some people are saying 'don't fuck with it', [ame="http://www.pinoymac.org/forum/showthread.php?t=24128"]this guy[/ame] had pretty much exactly the same problem as me and he was fine. Now, I've been told it's an immutable root file on laptops for a good reason, but is there anything stopping me from deleting this fucking space hog out of my external hard drive? I want almost half of my space back, god damn it! I've got Blazing Saddles in HD and it's taking up valuable space on my laptop. I need that space for my Chas and Dave covers project.
Thank you!