Out of Space on a Sparse Image

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Originally Posted by dnanian

It will grow as needed until it reaches its maximum size, which is the size of the original volume.

If you're running out of space, and it's due to moving or renaming large files or folders, perform the same operation on the backup. That'll help Smart Update get through the operation.

Mostly it was probably deleting large files that were part of movie projects (12gb in about 10 files). I had deleted them from the source, so I went into the Sparse Image and deleted them there, so now I have 12gb free. We will see if it works.

It would be nice if SD was able to get around this issue itself by examining the disks and find these discrepancies first.

Thanks

Jeff