{"id":105,"date":"2014-11-18T13:50:09","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T12:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itso.dk\/?p=105"},"modified":"2014-12-26T01:45:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-26T00:45:00","slug":"mac-osx-clean-reserved-disk-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.itso.dk\/?p=105","title":{"rendered":"Mac OSX clean reserved\/backup disk space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In some installations of OSX ie. Mavericks and Yosemite, when you delete files, the space changes to reserved disk space.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-106 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/itso.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sk\u00e6rmbillede-2014-11-18-kl.-12.50.01.jpg\" alt=\"Disk space\" width=\"746\" height=\"1015\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.itso.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sk\u00e6rmbillede-2014-11-18-kl.-12.50.01.jpg 746w, https:\/\/blog.itso.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sk\u00e6rmbillede-2014-11-18-kl.-12.50.01-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/blog.itso.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sk\u00e6rmbillede-2014-11-18-kl.-12.50.01-730x993.jpg 730w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 746px) 100vw, 746px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What actually happens, \u00a0the files get moved to a hidden folder on disk root called \/.MobileBackups<\/p>\n<p>Before you can clean the .MobileBackup you need to have a password set on your user account. You can do this form Systemsettings.<\/p>\n<p>Start the terminal.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-107\" src=\"http:\/\/itso.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sk\u00e6rmbillede-2014-11-18-kl.-12.53.14.jpg\" alt=\"Sk\u00e6rmbillede 2014-11-18 kl. 12.53.14\" width=\"666\" height=\"709\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.itso.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sk\u00e6rmbillede-2014-11-18-kl.-12.53.14.jpg 666w, https:\/\/blog.itso.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sk\u00e6rmbillede-2014-11-18-kl.-12.53.14-281x300.jpg 281w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\" \/>\u00a0w<\/p>\n<pre>sudo su\r\ncd \/\r\nls -l\r\ndu -chx -d 1 .MobileBackup\r\nrm -rf .MobileBackup\r\nexit<\/pre>\n<p>Before deleting the folder .MobileBackup, make sure you are certant there are no files which you do not want to backup.<br \/>\nGo through the folders with &#8220;cd&#8221; and &#8220;ls -l&#8221; command<\/p>\n<p>When doing the &#8220;du&#8221; command, it might take some time depending on the disk size and speed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; In some installations of OSX ie. Mavericks and Yosemite, when you delete files, the space changes to reserved disk space. What actually happens, \u00a0the files get moved to a hidden folder on disk root called \/.MobileBackups Before you can clean the .MobileBackup you need to have a password set on your user account. You &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.itso.dk\/?p=105\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Mac OSX clean reserved\/backup disk space&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mac-osx-tip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.itso.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.itso.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.itso.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.itso.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.itso.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.itso.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113,"href":"https:\/\/blog.itso.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions\/113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.itso.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.itso.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.itso.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.itso.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}