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MacBook Air hard drive showing "Back-ups" file.

My 2011 MacBook Air shows that there are approximately 8 GB worth of files labelled as "Back Ups", is there anyway to safely get rid of these and recover the drive space? I continuously take Time Machine back ups so this seems like a duplication and a space hog.
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This article (toti.posterous.com­/hidden­-local­-backups­-with­-mac­-o...) should answer your question.

Basically Lion is creating backups for you when your Time Machine isn't connected, the article provides a method of disabling it.
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