Well, I discovered 64 gigs of worthless information on my hard drive today… and I’m passing the discovery along just in case it applies to you.<\/p>\n
Re: TechTool Pro Directory Backup – it hangs around forever.<\/p>\n
TechTool Pro offers any number of features, one of which is Directory Backup. It uses this to help recover files on a corrupted volume.<\/p>\n
In my case, I’ve variously had it turned on and off, and it -may- default to “ON” (I’m not sure.) In any case, it backups up the directory information to a folder name “Techtool Protection” which may be found in your \/library\/application support\/ folder, or may be at the root level of your hard drive.<\/p>\n
These days, and usually, I keep it turned off. For one thing, a GUID partitioned drive already keeps a second directory, and for another, I’m content with my current backup system enough to not bother with trying to use TTP to resurrect a drive (Not to mention all the other tools I have that can be used to repair a drive.)<\/p>\n
Well, today, in the process of doing something else, my attention was drawn to these innocuous folders, only to discover that they held 64 gigabytes of old directory backups!<\/p>\n
Now, of course, this applies only to people who have, or have had, TechTool Pro running on their systems, but it may well be worth a look. In my case, I regained 64 gigs of drive space.<\/p>\n
hth<\/p>\n
Tracy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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