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I am new to the Mac world. I deleted some VM's from my MacBook Pro. Despite deleting 200GB worth of files on a 500GB drive, the MacBook is showing only 32GB open.

What am I missing?

The steps I took were:

  1. Deleted Parallels VM's totaling over 200GB
  2. Emptied the Trash
  3. Unchecked automatic backup in Time Machine
  4. Deleted all Time Machine Backups from MachHD/Volumnes/com.apple.TimeMachine.localsnapshots/Backups.backupdb/ MacBook Pro
  5. Restarted
  6. Run Disk Utility\First Aid
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  • Ouch! The issue was when you tried to delete bits of Time Machine manually. That never works. On an external volume, the 'fix' is to switch off Time Machine & unlink the backup volume, reformat the volume entirely, then start over. I have no idea how you'll get out of it on the boot volume. Wish you luck.
    – Tetsujin
    Oct 15, 2021 at 17:16
  • I turned off my MacBook over the weekend, and now the data is cleared. Seriously what the heck.Time machine has been off since Friday. Now it's Monday. Perhaps a background cleanup?
    – Xenoranger
    Oct 18, 2021 at 12:26
  • It should automatically cycle round the local backups. I've no experience with what it will attempt to do if you throw them away manually.
    – Tetsujin
    Oct 18, 2021 at 12:53

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