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It looks like, officially, you need to disable automatic backups to disable local snapshots: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102154 https://support.apple.com/en
by gymbeaux 3y ago
It looks like, officially, you need to disable automatic backups to disable local snapshots: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102154 https://support.apple.com/en-us/102154
Of course if you make sure your Time Machine disk is always available, you should never have local snapshots. I realize this is not always possible, especially for a laptop.
I wasn’t able to find anything fruitful as far as terminal commands or the like to disable local snapshots while retaining automatic backup function, but as others have said, the snapshots aren’t going to kill your SSD noticeably faster.