LS: Why is Smart Update so large?

[nkhester]

Originally Posted by nkhester

It may not be just SD that is bloating its output with OS X 10.6. Over the past two days I've seen similar inexplicable bloating of Time Machine files.

http://discussions.apple.com/thread....42173&tstart=0

The explanation (at least, partial) for the bloating of TM is that I found that WD Drive Management is incompatible with OS X 10.6. It was adding a spurious message to Console every 10 seconds whether drives were connected or not. It appears that each entry is unique and is seen by TM as a "change"! This caused TM to bloat by about 10GB daily.

Needless to say I've disabled the WD program without any "visible" effect other than TM is no longer bloating hourly.