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    Mackintosh HD snapshot

    Hi, I have set up Time Machine with an external hard drive on my Mac, and I have decided to delete it soon afterwards. I managed to delete all the snapshots using the Terminal, but still I see a Mackintosh HD snapshot. Is this used to load the operating system, or is this still a leftover from...
    • discover86
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    • snapshot time machine
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: macOS
  2. Alvin777

    Terminal Command for macOS to Automatically Delete Old Snapshots from Time Machine When it Sees It'll Run Out of Space

    Hello Mac friends. Time Machine at least on macOS Sonoma seems to just backup mindlessly until the Time Machine disk is full. Is there a good Terminal command or series of Terminal commands that could be set permanently by macOS to delete Time Machine's old backups (just the right amount) to...
  3. Alvin777

    Fix for Time Machine 'Not Enough Disk Space'?

    Hello Apple friends. Time Machine won't back up coz' it doesn't have enough space but it should be deleted the old snapshots to make space but it's not, it seem? What could be the fix? Thank you.
  4. DominikHoffmann

    Trying to delete non-Time-Machine snapshot

    I am trying to make space on my limited-size SSD (512 GB). From having run the backup software Arq in the past I see an Arq snapshot occupying 106 GB. I would like to delete it, in order to reclaim that space. To wit: user@host ~ % tmutil listlocalsnapshots / Snapshots for disk /...
  5. Cold.mira

    Resolved OS boot volume weirdness(?) in Disk Utility

    Hello, today while encountering some problems in trying to install the official release version of Big Sur (was on DevBuild/Public Beta before) i've noticed this... Macintosh HD in Container disk1 is greyed out and can't mount it, the text at center height in the main window should be...
    • Cold.mira
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    • bigsur boot catalina container macos snapshot volume
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: macOS
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    MacBook Pro Keyboard Problem

    I have a MacBook Pro that I had a lot of trouble with. I could not get an operating system installed until I cloned the system in an exact same model. When I was trying to set up an OS I could not get the Option key to allow me to choose a boot device. It seemed to just be ignored. Now that a OS...
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