Note: should be the date of the Time Machine backup you want to delete.ĥ. In Terminal, type: tmutil deletelocalsnapshots A list of Time Machine backups, ordered by date will appear.Ĥ. In Terminal, type: tmutil listlocalsnapshotdatesģ. If you think you might need any of your Time Machine backups in the near future for whatever reason then give this one a skip, but for everyone else, here’s how you can reclaim what is most likely a ton of storage space:Ģ. It keeps it running as quickly as possible and stops you from ever running into a situation where you can’t save a precious video or an important document because you’re too low on storage space.įollow the steps below to reclaim your Mac’s storage space! It is actually best practice to purge your Mac of unused files every so often. Deleting these files from your Mac’s System storage is perfectly safe. Your Mac is saving the Time Machine backups and temporary files for a reason, but the longer you use your Mac, the more redundant and unnecessary these files become.
With a lot of Macbooks having SSDs - often relatively small in size - storage space problems can start to get out of hand quite quickly, too. While it is perfectly normal and by design for your Mac to save Time Machine backups and temporary files as you use it, if you’ve had your Mac a while, its System storage can start to become quite large. System storage mostly consists of your Mac’s operating system, Time Machine backups, and temporary files. System storage taking up over 97GB! Source: Apple What is System storage on Mac and why is it taking up so much space?
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