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ways of clearing local hd of unwanted storage build-up
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tmutil listlocalsnapshotdates / |grep 20|while read f; do tmutil deletelocalsnapshots $f; done

Wait until it's done deleting the local snapshots. Restart your computer and it will create a new local snapshot.

Alternatively:

tmutil listlocalsnapshots /

and with

tmutil thinlocalsnapshots / 9999999999 1

you can delete all local snapshots and release the storage space.

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