 All right another quick tip that came up this week was I went to I've upgraded the studio I'm act is now on Monterey and The upgrade quite frankly could not have gone any more smoothly like all I did was do the upgrade and It was like yeah, everything just works. It's great Like I didn't even I remember when you did yours your some of your audio devices got re enumerated or whatever John I didn't I mean I checked because I knew that that had happened to you that didn't even happen to me super smooth I mean he says podcasting actively and not knocking on wood yet, but I will so But I did notice that On this machine X code Would not upgrade and it wouldn't upgrade because it was saying that I had no free space It was like well, I mean I Okay, why and I looked and it was like that classic scenario of okay of the one terabyte drive that I have on this machine I can see about six hundred gigs used and then what's happening to the rest so I decided to go and look at my snapshots on in carbon copy cloner and Sure enough so on carbon copy cloner you go to volumes You go to the slash there the dash data volume of whatever You know, whatever your boot volume is and And then go to snapshots not related tasks and here you can see all of the all of the snapshots that exist on your On your drive you're not going to see them on the non data volume I guess I guess there might be some there, but I don't think so I don't think they have the the ability to to see those but they do get to see them on the data volume and the the way that it There's an interesting thing because you'll see snapshots for Time machine, but then you'll also see snapshots for Things like that carbon copy cloner has put out there or things that you have manually put out there, right? And it will start to it will when you pull this screen up It takes a minute and then it will show you the size of each of these you can go in and delete them from here Which is huge in carbon copy cloner But the interesting part was at the bottom of the screen where you get to control the expiration policies for carbon copy cloner snapshots and I noticed that my drive had 30 gigs free And it has always had 30 gigs free for months like since Xcode wouldn't update No, I don't do any real development on this machine so it didn't matter to me, but it was sort of a you know a thing that niggled at my brain and Sure enough. I looked and the free space requirement on carbon copy cloner settings was 50 gigs or 30 gigs I've now changed it to 50 because you know, I wanted to have more but You can you can set how it expires snapshots including time machine snapshots And then also what the minimum free space is that you would set for for it to you know erase until it gets you to that point and that's why I was sitting at At 30 gigs because that's evidently what it was set to by default Once the sizes come up on your screen for all the snapshots you can sort them by size and Start to see okay What are the ones that are taking up? You know all the space for me here and I had some on this machine John that were like, you know 12 gigs, you know 15 gigs worth of snapshots and so I was like alright Well, let's get rid of those and you know and now I think I've got I don't know what it's telling me I've got 140 gigs free, but it but carbon copy cloner I'll tell you you know for example on this machine. I've got 220 gigs used just from snapshots You can also see snapshots now in disc utility But you don't have quite the same ability to manage them. So just for what it's worth pretty interesting though, huh? Anybody am I alone here? Sure. Hello. Yeah, cool. Great. That's awesome. I'm gonna play with that later. Yeah I know I know the problem was I put something on the screen and so I you know I'm wondering talking about it, but I have two nerds with me that are looking at a screen being like, oh, what's this interface? I Understand why you were silent, but yeah Alright, so that is that that's that's how I would manage snapshots these days And it's a good place to look especially if you're having that issue where you know the volume is just Unexplicably full