Macontosh HD has 200GB of space being used for backups. How do I fix this? I would like to free up that space.
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2011), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)
Check > http://pondini.org/TM/30.html
Check > http://pondini.org/TM/30.html
When is the last time you backed up your MBP to Time Machine? Those are local snapshots - you can just leave them alone as they will disappear in a week's time. You could disable local snapshots but I don't recommend it. Just plug your machine up to your Time Machine drive, let it back up and in a week or less that 'space' will be recovered.
Clinton
I back up to Time Machine every day or so. I never go more than 3 days without backing up to an external HD. I'm curious, why don't you reccomend turning off local snapshots? If it's the only way I can get over 200GB of my HD back than I don't really have much of a choice.
If your MBP needs the space, it will take space from the snapshots area - you haven't really 'lost' 200GB of space - I would imagine that you recently cleaned out some items that took up some space? TM is just giving you a week to get those files back. When I deleted 178GB+ of music from my startup drive, I had snapshots totalling over 200GB - no worries, in a week it was gone.
However, if you want to regain the space 'immediately' (although there's really no reason to do so) you can disable local backups by going into Terminal (Applications>Utilities) and typing:
sudo tmutil disablelocal
Hit Return and enter your admin password... you'll 'regain' the space.
To turn them on again, use:
sudo tmutil enablelocal
Good luck,
Clinton
Thanks for all your help.
200GB of HD space gone
