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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1814962" data-attributes="member: 396914">Welcome to the forum.You can always turn TM off by unchecking the &quot;Back Up Automatically&quot; box in preferences, that will stop snapshots at all. Snapshots will be deleted (and erased) when a backup is made, so another potential is to keep the backup drive attached so that instead of snapshots, you get backups. But you said that TM is putting the snapshots in the trash, which it should not do. Are you using anything like Carbon Copy Cloner, or Super Duper? I ask because they, too, create snapshots.You can also use something like Time Machine Editor or Time Machine Scheduler to schedule backups on a longer interval than one hour, and connect the backup drive for that schedule. That can be used to reduce the frequency of snapshots.As for getting rid of them from the Trash, you can set the Trash to be deleted immediately, but that applies to ALL of the trash, which you may or may not want. Frankly, the easiest is to just leave the backup drive attached and let TM do what it does, make backups, and avoid snapshots altogether unless you travel.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1814962, member: 396914"] Welcome to the forum. You can always turn TM off by unchecking the "Back Up Automatically" box in preferences, that will stop snapshots at all. Snapshots will be deleted (and erased) when a backup is made, so another potential is to keep the backup drive attached so that instead of snapshots, you get backups. But you said that TM is putting the snapshots in the trash, which it should not do. Are you using anything like Carbon Copy Cloner, or Super Duper? I ask because they, too, create snapshots. You can also use something like Time Machine Editor or Time Machine Scheduler to schedule backups on a longer interval than one hour, and connect the backup drive for that schedule. That can be used to reduce the frequency of snapshots. As for getting rid of them from the Trash, you can set the Trash to be deleted immediately, but that applies to ALL of the trash, which you may or may not want. Frankly, the easiest is to just leave the backup drive attached and let TM do what it does, make backups, and avoid snapshots altogether unless you travel. [/QUOTE]

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