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You should follow that up by going to /Library/Application Support/, slide into Time Machine, navigate to any snapshot, and select the TechTool Protection folder. Then choose 'Delete all backups of "TechTool Protection"' from the action menu. That should free up a bunch of space. [it may take TM a while, but that's the preferred method. -- I.e., it's best to *not* use Finder (or Terminal) to monkey with TM's database, whenever possible... but rather, request TM to do its own cleaning.]

Thank you again, Hal. Your advice is excellent, as always, and I followed it.

But, above you gave the path Library/Application Support/TechTool Protection/Volume_name and I don't have that sequence. If the other folder is invisible, there must be a reason. I don't need to see it.

You don't have the "/Library/Application Support/TechTool Protection" doobie, because you don't have version 5.


You don't have the "/Library/Application Support/TechTool Protection" doobie, because you don't have version 5.


Items whose name start with a period are hidden in Finder. The "Go to Folder..." method given by MicroMatTech3 is one way to see its content, and using Terminal is another:

ls -l /.TechToolProItems


[that is an option, i suppose.]
So then, what is the question?

Pardon me. I didn't see the first reference to version 5 in the 15th or 16th post, where Jon quoted MMT3. It took me several minutes to find it this time. What is the question? Why don't you know? You answered it twice.