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I meant to say it imparts NO information as to why when I back up my mac in mirror mode, many more files go into the trash than the number Im backing up. Surely you must have seen this? How could there be 60,000 files in the trash with names I never created?

Ive seen these. I rewatched "Mirror sync" which is what Im doing. It imparts in information as to why when I change a few files a great number more are added to the trash. Files with names that I can't find on my computer. File types that I can find. Simply, when I mirror by MacBook Pro HD to a ...

Im sorry but a more direct response is appreciated. Im backing up to an external disk that I've NEVER manually deleted anything from. When I back up, I can see FFS adding THOUSANDS of files to the trash. These files have names that DO NOT exist on the HD inside my computer. I can create a single new ...

OK, so I can delete these from the trash with no worry? Nothing mission critical in there? Can you briefly tell me why the number of files is SO high? I mean 60K files? Ive never generated that many.......It seems over by a factor of ten. Thank you for your time.

I might have thought it was merely overwriting files....

There are 60,000 files in trash now....way beyond any amount Ive ever generated or backup....

OK, thanks, so what files is it moving?????? I can't even find any such files on my computer. If I search other back up disks (them machine) I can't find them. An explanation will be appreciated....Thank you

I just synchronized my iPhoto library adding 56 GB and watched 1600 files added to the trash.

I can see the FFS is involved in this....I opened the trash, used FFS to sync mythic-membership macbook pro and the back up disk and watched as 6 files were added to the trash. Here they are! I did nOT put these in the trash it happened with synchronization.

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OK figured it out...they were added as long as three years ago and as recently as today! And this is weird because I deleted the contents of my trash yesterday so only 2 files should be in there and these are the two that show when I eject the BU disk.....! Any thoughts?????? VOODOO

Thank you, Im the only one who uses the computer.....How do I find deletion times? Apple has no idea where these files came from.....I don't either.....And they couldn't all be from the same folder as there are many file types, folders etc....

Hello,I've been using FFS for a while now with no problem. I did a back up a few hours ago and there are now 45,000 files in the trash. I'm backing up to an external drive and when I eject it, the files disappear from the trash. Many of these files have names and designations I've never seen before ...