What to do when mobile Time Machine backups linger and fill storage space

Macworld
Nov 25, 2015, 8:00 am533 pts
After reading the case of the missing El Capitan hard disk space and following all the advice in that column, Jim Williams still had an inexplicable 300GB that had no reason to exist. He ran a disk analysis program that showed that a hidden Unix directory named .MobileBackups.trash What is it and can he get…

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