Local Backups eating my SSD

[Sdreed91]

I have my ssd working great and time machine has made 32gbs of local back ups on my SSD. I have put in the terminal command "sudo tmutil disablelocal" and I believe that has stopped the backups. However, the terminal sudo command has not deleted those backups like I had read it would. Does anyone know how to remove those backups?

Thanks

 

[Warbitrary]

Do local backups get copied to an external backup drive when it's connected?

You could try re-enabling local backups, connecting your drive, letting it offload all local backups, check that there is indeed no local backups, then disabling local backups. Does this make sense?

 

[Sdreed91]

it does make sense. but i have had the drive plugged in 3 times since discovering these backups and it has not removed them. i appreciate the reply

 

[Weaselboy]

Turning Time Machine off then back on will delete the local backups.

I do not know if you will need to reenable the feature first though.

 

[Sdreed91]

turning TM off then back on did not delete the backups. I did read in several articles that in about a week those backups should be deleted. So im just going to keep my fingers crossed that they will be deleted

 

[theSeb]

turning TM off then back on did not delete the backups. I did read in several articles that in about a week those backups should be deleted. So im just going to keep my fingers crossed that they will be deleted

Why do they bother you?