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<blockquote data-quote="GZinn001" data-source="post: 1814955" data-attributes="member: 399121">I am running Mojave 10.14.3 on My Macbook Pro (13inch, Mid 2012).I am having&nbsp; some issues with how Time Machine handles local snapshots.Time machine does all the things I expect including creating local snapshots.Using SUDO I can turn local snapshots on and off. I can also delete local snapshots and they disappear from my hard drive.&nbsp; When my onboard storage get near it's limit Time Machine (TM) deletes the oldest local snapshot (just as Apple support says it will).My issue is that when TM deletes the files it only deletes them to trash.&nbsp; It then takes me hours to empty the trash folder as my backups contain around 393,000 files.Does anyone know of a faster way of permanently deleting these files from trash (or show me a way of ensuring that Time Machine deletes them permanently instead of sending them to trash).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GZinn001, post: 1814955, member: 399121"] I am running Mojave 10.14.3 on My Macbook Pro (13inch, Mid 2012). I am having some issues with how Time Machine handles local snapshots. Time machine does all the things I expect including creating local snapshots. Using SUDO I can turn local snapshots on and off. I can also delete local snapshots and they disappear from my hard drive. When my onboard storage get near it's limit Time Machine (TM) deletes the oldest local snapshot (just as Apple support says it will). My issue is that when TM deletes the files it only deletes them to trash. It then takes me hours to empty the trash folder as my backups contain around 393,000 files. Does anyone know of a faster way of permanently deleting these files from trash (or show me a way of ensuring that Time Machine deletes them permanently instead of sending them to trash). [/QUOTE]

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