Why is there such a big block of space being taken up by backups on my computer's hard drive?
I'm about to leave for college, and I've gotten pretty much everything set up on my 13 inch MBP. I recently opened 'About This Mac' and went to storage to view how my storage was being used. I noticed the wierdest thing; that is, that I have a supposed 73 GB of 'Backups' on my MBP. I don't recall ever backing anything up, and I went through and deleted all mobile backups. I've also noticed that I have actually 27 GB of music and it says I only have 4 GB, so I know there are other faults too. I'm just hoping that the 'Backups' being displayed are really backups, and that maybe I can delete them and get more space on my MBP. If anyone knows how I could find these 'Backups' please let me know.
I was using about this mac>more info>storage
for any others having this problem, it's referring to local snapshots.
to disable local snapshots enter this command in the terminal:
sudo tmutil disablelocal
then turn off time machine and restart your computer. You will find that all local snapshots have been deleted.
Cheers!
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