What is "Hard Drive Name@snap-xxxx"?

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revDAVE Author

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What is "Hard Drive Name@snap-xxxx"?

Hi,

Just like this other closed thread...

(

what is macintosh HD@snap-358236?

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8435944

)

- I am having the same problem...

I do NOT have anti virus installed..

This is a newer macbook pro computer ( High Sierra) - set up from scratch and then manually brought data over from previous (sierra) laptop.

Randomly an extra device appears on side bar with name "Hard Drive Name@snap-xxxx"

clicking on it - has the contents of my hard drive.

I can't delete it - but then it vanishes and comes back later.

Q: Could @snap be related to time machine snapshots?

Q: I am curious what this is - and what to do about it?

BTW: For the first few weeks I didn't run time machine - but just started it going....

also curious if this link is related and where local snapshots are stored?

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204015

Thanks

Dave

Posted on Jun 10, 2019 6:49 AM

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Answer 1

leroydouglas

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Jun 10, 2019 9:10 AM in response to revDAVE

From the Terminal.app copy and paste:

diskutil list

lets see the output here, it will be similar to to this for comparison:

$ diskutil list

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *480.1 GB disk0

1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1

2: Apple_APFS Container disk1 479.9 GB disk0s2

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: APFS Container Scheme - +479.9 GB disk1

Physical Store disk0s2

1: APFS Volume Macintosh HD 398.3 GB disk1s1

2: APFS Volume Preboot 22.6 MB disk1s2

3: APFS Volume Recovery 509.5 MB disk1s3

4: APFS Volume VM 5.4 GB disk1s4

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Answer 2

BDAqua

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Jun 10, 2019 11:02 AM in response to revDAVE

Hi Dave, it's likely it is a Time Machine local snapshot...

https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/7h5rgx/what_is_snap/

https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2492368

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