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Title: How to delete Time Machine snapshots on your Mac
Post by: HCK on March 21, 2018, 04:05:14 pm
How to delete Time Machine snapshots on your Mac

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<p>Time Machine has a nifty way of continuing to keep copies of versions of files as you change them even when it can’t connect to a Time Machine backup volume. It creates local snapshots on your startup volume and other connected HFS+ volumes, and then later transfers these to a Time Machine destination when you reconnect on a network. A Macworld reader has questions about managing these snapshots.</p><p>I wrote about this last in 2015 (https://www.macworld.com/article/3007573/operating-systems/what-to-do-when-mobile-time-machine-backups-linger-and-fill-storage-space.html), after readers were trying to troubleshoot otherwise inexplicable missing storage on their Macs.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3260635/macs/how-to-delete-time-machine-snapshots-on-your-mac.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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