Q: I need to free up space on my HD and most of the space seems to be taken up by "backups" when I already have an external HD for those purposes?
I've been trying to clean up my mac so I can speed it up. I've been using DiskDaisy and I repaired all my disk permissions but I still have about 500GB taken up on my HD ~300GB of which are supposedly "backups". I do not see the need for these to be stored on my main HD when I have an external HD set up as a backup through Time Machine. I was hoping someone could offer me some advice on what to do to remedy this problem?
Posted on Sep 6, 2015 10:27 PM
About Time Machine local snapshots
Time Machine Snapshots
Open the Terminal in the Utilities folder and enter or paste the appropriate command line. Press RETURN and enter your admin password when prompted. It will not be echoed. Press RETURN again.
To turn them ON: sudo tmutil enablelocal
To turn them OFF: sudo tmutil disablelocal
Note that turning them OFF will also delete all existing snapshots.
For more about snapshots see: OS X Mountain Lion- About local snapshots.
Posted on Sep 6, 2015 10:36 PM

