Howdy.
Otto has you on the right track but here's a screen capture of my
Terminal window. I just deleted the first snapshot in the list.
Once you see the list of snapshots in Terminal do the delete command .
. . .
sudo tmutil deletelocalsnapshots
Press Spacebar once after deletelocalsnapshots and copy/paste the date
part only from ONE of the listed snapshots.
sudo tmutil deletelocalsnapshots 1019-18-31-115431
And press Return.
In the above example, the 115431 is a digital time of day stamp.
In the screen capture attached, each line with com.apple.TimeMachine is
a snapshot.
The "sudo" part of the Unix/Terminal command is often called Super User
Do. It's an override and when you type your Admin account password
(which remains invisible) a sudo command lets you be like god on a Unix
system.
You can copy/paste from this email or from an online article so you
don't have to learn the Unix command line structure.
Good luck!
Denver Dan
p.s. And now, with my Terminal open, I'm going to delete some
snapshots.
I've removed and turned off my Time Machine drive and instructed TM
to stop making backups. As a result, the System files on my HD have
finally stopped growing! So next, Dan, I'm trying to get a list of
snapshots on my HD. I think that would be very important. But I've
never used Terminal before and I don't speak a word of Unix, so your
command isn't working. Here's what happens:
MacBook-Pro:~ tomkirshbaum$ sudo tmutil listlocalsnapshots/
Password:
Usage: tmutil listlocalsnapshots <mount_point>
MacBook-Pro:~ tomkirshbaum$
It looks to me as though Usage is a formatting suggestion, then
Terminal reverts to the beginning, inviting me to try again. Yes?
But I have no idea what to do with <mount_point>. Can you or someone
help me get this command working? That would be a huge positive
step. Thanks one and all.
Usage is telling you that the parameters are not recognised.
You need a space before the /. / is the mountpoint. So, it should be
sudo tmutil listlocalsnapshots /
Otto
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