Yosemite, deleting backups stored on SSD
About This Mac / Storage -> 65GB worth of backups. How do I find these backups and delete them. I am in need for space to download a program.
Also, I just deleted a program which is 60GB but only 30GB was deleted form my computer. I search the program name and files and nothing came up, is there a place these files are hiding which I can then delete?
Thanks
I think you may be concerned with Time Machine local snapshots. Please read these two articles:
http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202301
http://pondini.org/TM/30.html
They will always be deleted if space is required for other data and may safely be ignored.
Ciao.
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