08-04-2021 12:43 via macworld.com

The mysterious Mac problem that’s hogging up your storage could be snapshots

Over 200GB had disappeared from my Mac’s startup volume. It seemed unlikely the external SSD I had just swapped in as my startup drive was shrinking. Instead, it was a snapshot—more accurately, a snapshot for reverting the state of files on my volume or the entire volume to a previous point in time.Snapshots are a powerful way for backup software to provide a quick point in time to walk back to when you don’t necessarily need to restore the entire volume. You might want an earl
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