Subfolder jm under 1TB HD

[MacInWin]

Or just disable automatic backups and only do manual ones. With auto off, no snapshots.

 

[chscag]

Or just disable automatic backups and only do manual ones. With auto off, no snapshots.

Doesn't work that way with APFS. I do Time Machine backups manually and it still creates snapshots on my SSD. I just today had to remove a snapshot that was made by Time Machine.

 

[MacInWin]

Curious, Charlie. I have Mojave, APFS and I use Time Machine Editor to do two backups a day, noon and midnight. In between TME turns TM off, and the Back Up Automatically is unchecked. As of right now, it's been 9 hours since the last back and executing "tmutil listlocalbackups /" yields two, one today at 15 minutes after midnight and one 15 minutes after noon. So, basically, with the box unchecked, no snapshots, but when TME turns it on it does one while the backup is in progress.

So, basically, with Mojave and APFS, if Back Up Automatically is not checked, no snapshots. Only when TM is invoked do you get one snapshot, which I can live with.

 

[Bill Gates Jr.]

Okay. Problem back. If I go to "About this Mac", it shows my HDD with 922.52GB of 999.53GB free. No problem with that. But when I go to "Disk Utility", it shows my HDD with another subfolder. Cat did not cause that. So basically both the main HDD and the Sub drive have the same name now. The main HDD shows it is totally full and the sub drive shows what the "about this Mac" showed. How can I get rid of the sub drive in Disk utility?

 

[ferrarr]

Okay. Problem back. If I go to "About this Mac", it shows my HDD with 922.52GB of 999.53GB free. No problem with that. But when I go to "Disk Utility", it shows my HDD with another subfolder. Cat did not cause that. So basically both the main HDD and the Sub drive have the same name now. The main HDD shows it is totally full and the sub drive shows what the "about this Mac" showed. How can I get rid of the sub drive in Disk utility?

That’s the new way APFS works. That “container” holds the partitions on the drive, and can not be removed that I know of.


Bob -

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[MacInWin]

That other item is probably the recovery partition and cannot be removed. And one piece of advice: You are worrying way too much about this. The operating system will take care of itself pretty well. Unlike Windows users, you don't need to do nearly as much "maintenance" functions on macOS. You have a ton of space available, don't spend your time staring and comparing one display of that space with another. About This Mac is, at the top level, a summary of the system. I would bet that in the details of a System Report you will find that smaller partition is there. But it is not something for you to worry about. It is just the system and how it is constructed.