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Time Machine Duplication
Time Machine Duplication (originally uploaded by garrettmurray)

So far I've been loving Leopard. But, as always, it's not without its little bugs. One that seems a little strange to me is that Time Machine has been making extra copies of my iTunes library.

The shot above is nonsense, but it gets the point across: Time Machine has randomly created several full backup copies of my iTunes library. As in, every song is duplicated. So think about the space issue for a moment. I have a 50GB library—think about how many GBs of space it will take up when you multiply that. And since the files aren't changing (or at least not all of them), backup space could disappear pretty quickly.

Is anyone else experiencing random extra backups like this?

On a side note, the good news is that Time Machine works really well for the most part and I've already used it several times to get data I somehow lost. It is possible, of course, that Leopard is losing my data on purpose to show me how cool Time Machine is.

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