So, braintrust, how do I make iMazing stop stealing 194GB of drive space? I am thisclose to just getting rid of iMazing even though it's otherwise a great product. Look in Activity Monitor, don't see anything related to iMazing running. Stop that, repeat the delete, repeat Daisy Disk. Maybe it's because iMazing mini is running in the top bar. Run Daisy Disk and WTH? They both have reappeared in ~/Library/Application Support/iMazing/Versions! Getting more aggressive now, use Finder to locate the Versions folders, drag both to the trash and empty the trash. Enter iMazing, turn off archiving on both devices. Daisy Disk reports that iMazing was taking up 194GB, this time in a subfolder named "Versions" in ~/Library/Application Support/iMazing.Īh, that must be the "archiving" location. Oops, Get info on the drive says exactly the same. So let's see how much space I've recovered. Delete the prior backups through iMazing, get back all happy-happy results. So I go to iMazing preferences and set the default backup location to my external drive and do new backups on both the iPhone and iPad. Ah, that sort of makes sense in that I have an iPhone with 143GB used and an iPad with 110GB used and I've backed them up using iMazing. Investigating it showed that the space was in ~/Library/Application Support/iMazing/Backups. Daisy Disk informed me that iMazing was taking up just under 200GB of the drive, about 194GB. I've been trying to cull what I can and move what I can off the internal to a external drive. The days when merely getting into Macs in a basic way was expensive are long, long gone.The free space on my internal SSD had declined a bit ago. Such systems can still do the job for most. Even a basic 2017 iMac can be had now for around $250, and that can still run Ventura. Particularly with the Apple Silicon shift and more aggressive EOL for older Macs used values have dropped a lot. also applies to Macs? Work just gave away a bunch of 2011-2013 era Macs for free. But wait you might say, people get iPhones that are older generations or used! Which. The MSRP of a new iPhone (plain iPhone 14, $800) is higher than a new Mac (M1 Mini, $700). Lack of broadband doesn't mean "poor", not even in the first world.Īnd you wrote that about about a self-selected population that can afford iDevices, which are not exactly the cheap end of the smartphone spectrum. I mean, seriously? Come on, Ars has been covering the bullshit of the FCC coverage shenanigans for years and in solid detail. Another mile away and you had dialup or Viasat. The first client I installed it for back in the beta was lucky to have a 10 megabit connection available. That's precisely why Starlink has had a small but devoted and serious initial interest. And in terms of newer Macs, your imagination is kind of weird given that millions of people even in America have no broadband and/or hard data caps too. Ĭlick to expand.You can sync iDevices with Windows too you know. While it's probably just Apple being dumb shitters without attention to detail (as with the Ventura system preferences, or recent removal of the lovely page turning system for iBooks), can't help but wonder these days whether it's not also in part driven by their revenue push and them trying to further get people to use iCloud. I'd be ok if they buried it in some advanced menu or even as a profile option via Configurator but having it done like this really sucks and is a flat out negative for security since it discourages backups. It's a stupid lazy move at best by Apple, same as forcing regular retrust-exercises in general with no workarounds. It's not a "bug" to want to freaking link my own personal devices! If the system is compromised to the level needed there then that means the attacker has access to all our user data and accounts and so on anyway. And Macs at this point have plenty of security as well, particularly AS-based ones. For a lot of us our computers are still flat out more important and higher trust than our phones, or at the least equal. Click to expand."Security bug" is highly debatable.
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