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MBP SSD storage space "missing"
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<blockquote data-quote="siewfc" data-source="post: 1453951" data-attributes="member: 275377"><p>confirmed the 49.44Gb occupied by "Backup" are basically local snapshots of time machine, which when turned on, will capture a snapshot on the system every hour and store in the internal storage. i understand this is good for easy file recovery in case of crashes but the storage is really taxing on my 128Gb SSD drive. so what i did was switch off the time machine and all the local snapshots were automatically removed and freed up the space. i will perform the time machine backup about twice a month using an external hard disk. i don't know is this the right thing to do. another way I have thought of is to switch on the time machine between the backups and turn it off once i performed the backup (to eliminate the local snapshots between 2 backups) and then turn it on again until the next backup.</p><p>will appreciate your opinion and thanks in advance.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="siewfc, post: 1453951, member: 275377"] confirmed the 49.44Gb occupied by "Backup" are basically local snapshots of time machine, which when turned on, will capture a snapshot on the system every hour and store in the internal storage. i understand this is good for easy file recovery in case of crashes but the storage is really taxing on my 128Gb SSD drive. so what i did was switch off the time machine and all the local snapshots were automatically removed and freed up the space. i will perform the time machine backup about twice a month using an external hard disk. i don't know is this the right thing to do. another way I have thought of is to switch on the time machine between the backups and turn it off once i performed the backup (to eliminate the local snapshots between 2 backups) and then turn it on again until the next backup. will appreciate your opinion and thanks in advance. [/QUOTE]
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