My Book Full...Or so it says?

Portable Drives My Passport
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Hey there,

I have a WD 1 TB external drive that I have been using for quite a while, and it has been great. Recently, I have been getting messages saying it can’t be backed up as there is not enough space on the drive. I’m not sure why/how the drive is full. I regularly delete old backups and when I look at the Backups.backupdb there is not a lot in there (only two folders).

The one folder (the main one) has the last full backup folder, a file that says inProgress and at Latest folder with my MacintoshHD folder in it.

The second folder only has a Latest file.

Any thoughts or ideas on this and how I begin to resolve this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Jennifer

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Hi,

Did you copied any files manually to the drive?

Make sure that you don’t additional files on the drive.

Also, check the capacity of the drive on the disk utilities.

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Hi ERmorel,

Thank you for the reply. No, I have never manually added files to the drive. This is what the capacity says in disk utility.

Capacity : 999.37 GB (999,367,335,936 Bytes)
Available : 17.83 GB (17,826,631,680 Bytes)
Used : 981.54 GB (981,540,704,256 Bytes)

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I’m slowly finding out more information. This thread will give you an idea where I am at now with trying to resolve this.