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<blockquote data-quote="Ratsima" data-source="post: 1833557" data-attributes="member: 402210">My TM drive is always connected and mounted. I do not edit videos very often (a few times per year) nor do I edit other massive files. The TM drive is 1TB and is always almost full.Thinning the snapshots might be worthwhile in the short term. But, they will just get recreated as time goes by. Since my boot drive has a lots of free space, TM just goes ahead and fills it up with snapshots. (&quot;Local snapshots as space permits&quot;) That's what it's supposed to do. I have to admit, though, some surprise at how many there are and how much space they take up.I first saw this when I booted into recovery mode last weekend and ran First Aid. After checking the disk, it checked each snapshot individually. I think at that time there were 17 of them. It took a long time. No problems found.I really doubt that the snapshots are what is preventing the App Store from updating certain apps. (Other apps, like Xcode, updated automatically with no problem at all.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ratsima, post: 1833557, member: 402210"] My TM drive is always connected and mounted. I do not edit videos very often (a few times per year) nor do I edit other massive files. The TM drive is 1TB and is always almost full. Thinning the snapshots might be worthwhile in the short term. But, they will just get recreated as time goes by. Since my boot drive has a lots of free space, TM just goes ahead and fills it up with snapshots. ("Local snapshots as space permits") That's what it's supposed to do. I have to admit, though, some surprise at how many there are and how much space they take up. I first saw this when I booted into recovery mode last weekend and ran First Aid. After checking the disk, it checked each snapshot individually. I think at that time there were 17 of them. It took a long time. No problems found. I really doubt that the snapshots are what is preventing the App Store from updating certain apps. (Other apps, like Xcode, updated automatically with no problem at all.) [/QUOTE]

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