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can't delete orphaned local Time Machine snapshots using tmutil

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Apr 12, 2004
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I've found several articles on how to remove local snapshots, but they all rely on the OS actually knowing about them (ie, using tmutil listlocalsnapshots / ). When I do that, I don't see the snapshots I want to delete. At my Mac HD level, as a peer to Applications, Library, System, and Users folders, I have: com.apple.TimeMachine.localsnapshots. If I open the folder, I see four old snapshots from Oct 2019. But if I run the tmutil command, it only shows snapshots from this month - so I can't use the command to delete these apparently orphaned ones. But they're read-only and rm -rf doesn't work, either. It says it's zero bytes, but it's really annoying me.

Any ideas?
 
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