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blackxacto

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Jun 15, 2009
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Big Sur 11.4, 19,1 iMac: Booting in Internet Recovery mode and repairing my main SSD data, why am I keeping 21 snapshots of my main SSD? Wouldn’t 10 be suffiecient? Why not 5?
 

chrfr

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Jul 11, 2009
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Big Sur 11.4, 19,1 iMac: Booting in Internet Recovery mode and repairing my main SSD data, why am I keeping 21 snapshots of my main SSD? Wouldn’t 10 be suffiecient? Why not 5?
If you don't need the disk space for your data, why not keep more snapshots? The Mac will purge them as required but in the mean time you have more opportunities for recovering files you've deleted or that have become corrupt.
 
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