Deleting Local Snapshots for Time Machine on MacBook Pro

cavemanrik wrote:

Problem snapshots i have a question about local snapshots of timemachine. I have a MacBook Pro. i was not very handy and had my timemachine copied to the same disk as my data disk. result the disk fills up. if i throw away 10 gb, the file is gone, but the space is not released. that file is of course in a snapshot. no matter what i try i can not get rid of those files/snapshots and can also use an empty disk that i can use for that to run timemachine. it indicates that i have too little space 2gb and therefore does nothing. i have already tried these commands, but does not work. sudo tmutil deletelocalsnapshots / Who has the solution for me to solve this annoying problem. Thanks in advance Rik

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you can delete them in your Disk Utility.app

View APFS snapshots in Disk Utility on Mac - Apple Support

FYI, macOS will automatically delete TM snapshots every day if you backup every hour. If you backup less frequently, then a couple snapshots may remain longer. On one Mac I manually backup, so I only ever have two TM snapshots on my system. There will always be one TM snapshot at all times in order to allow quick file recovery and to allow recovery when you may not have your backup drive handy.

It really sounds like your boot drive doesn't have sufficient storage. You can either transfer the large data items to an external data drive (either store your large files on an external drive, or relocate the large Library folders such as Photo Library, iTunes/Music Library, iMovie Library....unfortunately Mail cannot be relocated AFAIK), or purchase a new laptop with sufficient internal storage.