Mac's Time Machine creates local 'mobile backups' of folders. However when you are moving large files around (e.g. virtual machine hard disks) you'll end up with a disk reporting much less free space than it actually has due to these backups.
sudo tmutil disablelocal
Once rebooted the snapshots will be gone.
sudo tmutil enablelocal
tmutil snapshot
Disable Local Snapshots
To turn off this feature and remove the snapshots enter the following in Terminal:sudo tmutil disablelocal
Once rebooted the snapshots will be gone.
Enable Local Snapshots
To turn on this feature enter the following in Terminal:sudo tmutil enablelocal
tmutil snapshot
More Information:
- Apple Support
- http://pondini.org/OSX/DiskSpace.html
- What Size shows the disk usage. Get the admin capable version from their website NOT the App store version
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