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Q: Why is my Mac Pro backing up files as I delete them? It is filling up my storage.

Why is my Mac book pro backing up files as I try to delete them? It is filling up my storage (according to 'about this Mac' I have 102 GB backups on my Mac HD) and I can't find them in finder to redelete them.

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Posted on Apr 8, 2016 1:42 PM

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Q: Why is my Mac Pro backing up files as I delete them? It is filling up my storage.

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  • by theratter,Helpful

    theratter theratter Apr 8, 2016 5:14 PM in response to kimfrog63
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    Apr 8, 2016 5:14 PM in response to kimfrog63

    Turn off Time Machine Unless you have a Time Machine backup disk connected. You are looking at snapshots created by Time Machine when no backup drive is connected: About Time Machine local snapshots.

  • by Linc Davis,Helpful

    Linc Davis Linc Davis Apr 8, 2016 5:20 PM in response to kimfrog63
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    Apr 8, 2016 5:20 PM in response to kimfrog63

    Don't turn off Time Machine.

     

    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.

  • by kimfrog63,

    kimfrog63 kimfrog63 Apr 8, 2016 5:20 PM in response to Linc Davis
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    Apr 8, 2016 5:20 PM in response to Linc Davis

    Thank you for your reply - you cover some areas for me to watch in the future. When I looked at 'get info' on my hard drive it said that I had lots of space . Since I was wanting to update my system, hence needing storage, I decided to just go ahead and it solved the problem - it must have been a glitch in my OS.