"Purgeable" space is killing my Mac

[Marco Klobas]

Marco wrote:
"I use a shell script to manually delete Time Machine snapshots."

Heh.
The better way is to not use time machine at all.

I've never used it, not once, ever.
I use either SuperDuper or CarbonCopyCloner instead.

No snapshots to bother with...

I get your point: I use ChronoSync for backups. Time Machine is in theory a nice addition to a backup arsenal, though. Another issue with Time Machine, in my opinion, is that it "stresses" the disk: meaning reading/writing almost continuously something. It's part of the versioning backup strategy after all. This is especially evident with SSD.

 

[boppin]

Now it's not letting me delete this last one. But I seem to have 100GB free space, so I'm going to try reinstalling. Wish me luck! See you on the other side.

If this helps?

But I think after deleting such much Spotlight should be calm. As far as I remember on my old MacBook this happened when I got deleted round about 300 to 400 GB.