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Deletes all local Time Machine backups in MacOS 12.1 (and maybe other versions)
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delete-all-local-timemachine-backups.sh
#!/bin/sh
# list local snapshots for `/`, filter output to grab snapshot timestamps, and pass them one at a time to tmutil
# to delete them.
#
# you may need to elevate your privelleges using sudo, but i found that on my single user laptop i didn't have to
tmutil listlocalsnapshots / | grep -Eo '\d\d\d\d-\d\d-\d\d-\d+' | xargs -n1 tmutil deletelocalsnapshots
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