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Local Snapshots of Time-Machine

I have a 4TB SSD in my iMac Pro

I wanted to transport 380GB to my SSD, but it does not work, as the system claims there is not enough space.

I thought, that this can not be, and checking all my folders, I was using about 1TB of space. So there should be some close to 3TB of space left.

Checking then "about my Mac"

System uses 2.8TB of space!!!!

Diging in google, Time-Machine-Snapshots. Claim they delet them when space needed... but that doe snot work when you want to ad data to your drive. And I do not need that feature.

So, how can I disable local snapshots?

This already cost me so much time, it is frustrating.

Thank you

iMac Pro (2017), iOS 11.4.1

Posted on Jul 15, 2018 7:12 PM

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Paz.americano Author

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Posted on Jul 15, 2018 8:09 PM

That is a snapshot, and you can see it in "About my Mac" see screen, go to Storage and click on Manage on your main HD. There you see on the bottom the System. This showed 2.79 TB before ... after deleting Time-Machine Snapshots it was almost empty. (in comparison to the 2.8TB before)

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