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Sorry, I'm a relative Newbie and i never thought of that. Anyway, I opened it and its Time Machine backups.It appears to do a backup every week. I can safely delete all of them....except the most recent if I want,right ?
Those are essentially temporary backups. Those would be be cleared out automatically when you plug in your external backup drive (and give it time to do that backup). If you don't currently use Time Machine on an external drive, you would need to make sure that Time Machine knows that is your backup drive. You can set that in the Time Machine settings.
I cannot find on Sonoma where to Disable Time machine .I don't want to
use it . I also want to delete 500 GB of Time machine backups (i didn't even know I had). Having a hard time figuring out how to Disable it. I understand Sonoma removed that option ?
Hmmm... Well, OK, no Time Machine:
Open System Settings, then General.
Click on Time Machine, and click the "Options" button.
Click the (+) under Exclude from Backups.
Select your boot drive. That will, well, stop backups of your drive, effectively bypassing Time Machine.
You can also add to that exclude list, other drives that you might usually connect to your Mac.
Open System Settings, then General.
Click on Time Machine, and click the "Options" button.
Click the (+) under Exclude from Backups.
Select your boot drive. That will, well, stop backups of your drive, effectively bypassing Time Machine.
You can also add to that exclude list, other drives that you might usually connect to your Mac.
This is part of my problem ,I don't get to see the things you refer to. I click on Settings-General-Time machine and I see this.There is no Options button nor is there a + sign anywhere or Exclude From Backups....................
