{"id":27487,"date":"2019-12-03T16:55:56","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T21:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=27487"},"modified":"2019-12-03T16:55:56","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T21:55:56","slug":"disk-drill-guaranteed-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/03\/disk-drill-guaranteed-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Disk Drill Guaranteed Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cerebralgardens.com\/blog\/entry\/2019\/11\/25\/solved-my-time-machine-and-catalina-issues\">Dave Wood<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.cerebralgardens.com\/blog\/entry\/2019\/11\/25\/solved-my-time-machine-and-catalina-issues\"><p>I received feedback from my report I&rsquo;d sent to Apple (Yay, they do work!). They pointed out that the issue was due to a third party app I have installed called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cleverfiles.com\/\">Disk Drill<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cleverfiles\">CleverFiles<\/a> (which I have as part of my <a href=\"https:\/\/go.setapp.com\/invite\/73c55552-f0fe-417f-ae31-10ef8e6feab1\">Setapp<\/a> subscription). The app has a &ldquo;feature&rdquo; called <em>Guaranteed Recovery<\/em> that is supposed to help recover files later if you accidentally delete them. It &ldquo;works&rdquo; by creating thousands of hard links to what appears to be every file on your system in a hidden directory (<code>\/System\/Volumes\/Data\/.cleverfiles\/<\/code>). This means when you delete a file, it&rsquo;s not really deleted because there&rsquo;s a hard link effectively creating a duplicate in the hidden folder.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Over the last month or so, I&rsquo;ve been trying to free up space on my main SSD because the OS is constantly complaining that my drive is full. Because I kept getting alerts that I needed more free space, I kept moving\/deleting files. Eventually I&rsquo;d cleared\/off-loaded over 500G of data and was still scraping by with about 30G of free space. Now that I&rsquo;m aware of the issue, I&rsquo;ve taken a look into the <code>.cleverfiles<\/code> hidden folder on my iMac and I see it has over 450G in it. Wow.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wow indeed. First, the hidden folder should be excluded from Time Machine. And second, it seems like there&rsquo;s a bug where it isn&rsquo;t being pruned automatically.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Wood: I received feedback from my report I&rsquo;d sent to Apple (Yay, they do work!). They pointed out that the issue was due to a third party app I have installed called Disk Drill by CleverFiles (which I have as part of my Setapp subscription). The app has a &ldquo;feature&rdquo; called Guaranteed Recovery that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-12-03T21:56:01Z","apple_news_api_id":"c11df1af-0d6e-4679-8de1-21616b20a145","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-12-03T21:56:02Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AwR3xrw1uRnmN4SFhayChRQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[131,1896,1408,30,1666,174,216],"class_list":["post-27487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-bug","tag-disk-drill","tag-hard-links","tag-mac","tag-macos-10-15","tag-storage","tag-timemachine"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27489,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27487\/revisions\/27489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}