Just to update everyone, I eventually figured out part of the problem. This Mac came with Mountain Lion, so my Mavericks upgrade held onto the legacy versions of Numbers, Pages, and iMovie. All told, erasing those three, plus the current version of iMovie since I never use it, freed up around ten gigabytes of space. I now have eleven gigs free, which is much better, and that's after installing both Xcode5 and the Xcode6 beta. Obviously, if you rely on these older versions of iLife or iWork apps, hang onto them, but if you don't need them and are sure you never will, you might want to just get rid of them completely. Only those who performed an upgrade to os10.9 will have this happen to them, I believe, though I could be wrong and Mavericks might come with legacy versions no matter what. Anyway, it's something to think about. Also, if you never plan to use iMovie, you can get rid of that as it is a very large app, over 2GB in size. On Jul 16, 2014, at 5:51 PM, Anders Holmberg <and...@pipkrokodil.se> wrote:
> Hi! > Thanks for that Warning. > No i wont delete any compact voice as they're the one i use. > /A > 15 jul 2014 kl. 20:48 skrev Daniel McGee <danielmcgee...@googlemail.com>: > >> Warning: if your going to earase some voices, then you do so at your own >> risk. I would highly recommend not getting rid of the compact voices. I >> found out the hard way when I got rid of one of these, I was unable to get >> it back despite downloading the HQ of that voice again. The only way I was >> able to restore them so to speak was finding the compact voice in one of my >> Time Machine backups and a simple copy and paste back to its location on the >> internal hard drive correctly restored it. So basically wouldn't recommend >> deleting compact voices besides, they don't take up too much space anyway. >> As far as I can tell though, Hq voices are ok to delete they seem to >> re-download themselves again and install once you have done it in the >> Voiceover utility. >> So for the location of these voices, at least for me, it is :: >> >> System/Library/Speach/Voices >> >> hth >> On 15 Jul 2014, at 19:07, Alex Hall <mehg...@icloud.com> wrote: >> >>> I believe you go to /library/voices, but I might have that path wrong. In >>> either the system library folder or your current user account's library >>> folder, though, you will find a folder containing all the voices your Mac >>> has, sorted into a folder for each speech synthesizer provider. Simply >>> erase the voices you no longer want (each is its own folder). I haven't >>> personally done this in a while, so the details might be off. >>> On Jul 15, 2014, at 12:52 PM, Anders Holmberg <and...@pipkrokodil.se> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi! >>>> How do i do this? >>>> I have some voices i do not use but can't figure out how to remove them? >>>> Is it just to uncheck them in the voiceover utilities? >>>> /A >>>> 15 jul 2014 kl. 18:22 skrev Daniel McGee <danielmcgee...@googlemail.com>: >>>> >>>>> Alex, just a thought but have you over time downloaded more than one >>>>> voice fro the Voiceover Utility? >>>>> >>>>> I know this wouldn't be the reason why your hard drive should be filling >>>>> up so. However, if you have more than one voice that you don't use >>>>> anymore, maybe it might be worth it getting rid of it and in the process >>>>> gaining some disc space back. >>>>> >>>>> I know this doesn't solve your problem but just an idea for what it is >>>>> worth. >>>>> >>>>> I hope you will solve the mystery of this strange behaviour. >>>>> On 15 Jul 2014, at 14:45, Alex Hall <mehg...@icloud.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Thanks for the tip, but I'm not using Time Machine on this computer. >>>>>> Honestly, I'm just waiting for iCloud Drive with Yosemite, then I'll buy >>>>>> 250GB and dump my stuff in there. For now, though, no backups, which is >>>>>> why my essentials live in Dropbox. Not ideal, but it works for the >>>>>> moment. >>>>>> On Jul 15, 2014, at 4:58 AM, Tristan <theblinddj...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Hi Alex, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> MacBooks have a background process that makes hourly backups if you >>>>>>> have Time Machine enabled. These backups will accumulate into a "local >>>>>>> backup," and until you connect the machine to your time machine drive >>>>>>> they will take up space. >>>>>>> I'm not sure if you're using time machine, but it's designed so it >>>>>>> will bring your hard drive to the point of almost being full, then >>>>>>> delete backups as it sees fit. Not entirely ideal. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> To delete the backups, either manually clear out the /Volumes/Mobile >>>>>>> Backups folder, or disable and reenable time machine through system >>>>>>> preferences. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> To stop these "local" backups from occurring, you can do this by >>>>>>> opening terminal and typing >>>>>>> sudo tmutil disablelocal >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Hope this helps. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On 7/15/14, Jason White <ja...@jasonjgw.net> wrote: >>>>>>>> Tim Kilburn <kilbu...@me.com> wrote: >>>>>>>>> Interesting. Haven't used that one before. Thanks for the info. >>>>>>>>> What >>>>>>>>> is >>>>>>>>> the command actually reporting? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> It's reporting the disk space usage in 512-byte blocks by default, but >>>>>>>> there >>>>>>>> are options to change this to report in megabytes, gigabytes, etc. See >>>>>>>> the >>>>>>>> du(1) manual page for all the details. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> -- >>>>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>>>>> Groups >>>>>>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>>>>>> an >>>>>>>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>>>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>>>>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>>>>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- >>>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>>>> Groups "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>>>>> an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>>>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>>>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> Have a great day, >>>>>> Alex Hall >>>>>> mehg...@icloud.com >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>>> Groups "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>>>> an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >>> -- >>> Have a great day, >>> Alex Hall >>> mehg...@icloud.com >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Have a great day, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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