Time Machine

Version 1.1

Time Machine extension for Raycast. Useful for managing and interacting with Time Machine backups on macOS.

Features

• Show the status of Time Machine or the most recent backup (requires Full Disk Access)
• Start a Time Machine backup
• Stop an ongoing Time Machine backup
• List available Time Machine backup disks
• Clean local APFS snapshots to reclaim disk space

Requirements

• macOS with Time Machine enabled
• full disk access for the "Show Status" command to get the most recent backup status (in order to read /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist)

Clean Local Snapshots

macOS creates local APFS snapshots when your backup disk is disconnected, which can silently consume 50-200GB+ on Macs with limited storage. The "Clean Local Snapshots" command lets you:

• List all local snapshots (Time Machine, Arq, Backblaze, Carbon Copy Cloner and other APFS snapshots)
• Batch select individual snapshots or all at once
• Delete in parallel with a configurable number of threads (1-5, set in the command preferences)
• Follow deletion with real-time progress tracking

Keyboard Shortcuts

Action	Shortcut
Toggle selection	Enter
Delete selected	⌘D
Select all	⌘⇧S
Deselect all	⌘⇧A
Refresh	⌘R
Command settings	⌘⇧,

Notes

• Deleting snapshots requires your administrator password, which is used only to run the deletion commands (tmutil deletelocalsnapshots for Time Machine snapshots, diskutil apfs deleteSnapshot for third-party ones) and is never stored.
• If listing snapshots fails with a permission error, add Raycast to Full Disk Access in System Settings.