On two separate external hard drives I keep on getting the message: Time Machine could not create a local snapshot to back up from. How can I resolve this matter and make sure I can backup my laptop again?
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 10.15
Is your internal HD or ssd nearly full?
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204015
You can read here:
“Your Mac counts the space used by snapshots as available storage. Even so, Time Machine stores snapshots only on disks that have plenty of free space, and it automatically deletes snapshots as they age or as space is needed for other things.”
OK, but your internal disk being nearly full will cause this problem: from support.apple.com
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204015:
"Your Time Machine backup disk might not always be available, so Time Machine also stores some of its backups on your Mac. These backups are called local snapshots."
See this thread https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251342854
No, it's a brand new external harddrive with over 1tb of space....
my internal disk is nearly full, but I am not backing up to that
Thank you, appreciate the help!
Time Machine could not create a local snapshot to back up from.
