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"could not create a local snapshot" with brand new reformatted EHD

Cannot use brand new, reformatted WD Elements drive.


I bought this one because Time Machine stopped backing up to my smaller EHD.


Same error: "could not create a local snapshot."


Help?



MacBook Air 13″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Jul 30, 2020 3:29 PM

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Posted on Aug 3, 2020 5:53 PM

I’m pretty sure this was the problem. For a 4 gb update it required 48 gb free space... seems weird, but deleting stuff from my Mac did the trick. I needed to do that anyway, but wanted a backup BEFORE I deleted things... oh well!

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"could not create a local snapshot" with brand new reformatted EHD

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