Q: "backups" eat memory
Hi community,
at first, my problem is not the time machine or capsule. To get more memory on the hard drive i did delete some gigabytes music. Easy, no problems. But i didn't get more memory after deleting some music. Now i have less memory then before because what i deleted in music i do now have in "backups". When i go on the "Apple" button "about this mac" and then "hard drive" i see 44GB backups. Whats that?? Before i didn't had that. I don't know what it is and where it is and how i can clear off to get my needed memory on the hard drive. Just for information, i do have a time capsule and use time machine, but don't see a connection. Thanks for help.
...on the other site, when i open hard drive utility i see these "Backups" shown as "others" as you can see on the next picture. The strange here is that my mac says i have 32,67GB available but among them he says i have 77,04GB free, so what??? I don't understand, please help me. I just want to know how to clear off these "backups".......
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Early 2013), OS X El Capitan (10.11.2)
Posted on Jan 1, 2016 1:56 PM
About Time Machine local snapshots backups created when your backup drive was not connected. Although they take up space on the disk drive the OS will automatically delete them as more space is required. So, you can ignore them.
Time Machine Snapshots
Open the Terminal in the Utilities folder and enter or paste the appropriate command line. Press RETURN and enter your admin password when prompted. It will not be echoed. Press RETURN again.
To turn them ON: sudo tmutil enablelocal
To turn them OFF: sudo tmutil disablelocal
Note that turning them OFF will also delete all existing snapshots.
Posted on Jan 2, 2016 4:13 AM

