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Hey guys I don't think I need my back ups on my Macbook pro if I have back ups on a external hard drive but I have 167GBs of back ups on my macbook pro. Can I delete it and if so how thanks 😀
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013), OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)
Do you back up any iOS devices to your MBP? If so, you can delete old backups in iTunes - Preferences - Devices.
I haven't backed up any ipods or iphone yet so I dont know why it's 167GB back ups
These may be local snapshots from your Time Machine backup.
You can turn them off:
Open the Terminal (Applications/Utilities)
Copy the line below and paste it into Terminal:
sudo tmutil disablelocal
Press RETURN and enter your admin password when prompted
Note: Turning them OFF will also delete all existing snapshots.
To turn them back on:
Open the Terminal (Applications/Utilities)
Copy the line below and paste it into Terminal:
sudo tmutil enablelocal
Press RETURN and enter your admin password when prompted
I'm certain that what you're seeing are, as Axeman1020 says, local snapshots. I DO NOT advise turning them off. One week after you hook up your machine to your Time Machine drives, the local snapshots will vanish, only to be replaced by more until you backup again. This is a safety feature of Time Machine on portable machines and you should not turn them off or delete them. Just let TM do its thing and you'll have good backups.
I also recommend connecting to your TM drives at least once a week. This will keep the snapshot space down and, again, allow a good backup strategy.
Best of luck,
Clinton
When Time Machine backs up a portable Mac, some of the free space will be used to make local snapshots, which are backup copies of recently deleted files. The space occupied by local snapshots is reported as available by the Finder, and should be considered as such. In the Storage display of System Information, local snapshots are shown as Backups. The snapshots are automatically deleted when they expire or when free space falls below a certain level. You ordinarily don't need to, and should not, delete local snapshots yourself. If you followed bad advice to disable local snapshots by running a shell command, you may have ended up with a lot of data in the Other category. Ask for instructions in that case.
Ok so I backed up my Mac with Time Machine but the backups were still there so I called up apple and they said to turn off Time Machine so I did and it worked 🙂 and they also sent me this http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4878?viewlocale=en_US Thanks to all for the help 🙂
That's one way to get rid of the local snapshots, certainly, but they would have been 'erased' from your disk after seven days in any event.
Again, I don't recommend turning local snapshots off - it's a great way to lose data.
Clinton
Can't find my Backups folder on Macbook pro
