{"id":37678,"date":"2022-11-22T14:57:43","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T19:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=37678"},"modified":"2022-11-22T14:57:43","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T19:57:43","slug":"managing-xcode-downloads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/22\/managing-xcode-downloads\/","title":{"rendered":"Managing Xcode Downloads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/furbo.org\/2022\/11\/09\/managing-xcode-downloads\/\">Craig Hockenberry<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/furbo.org\/2022\/11\/09\/managing-xcode-downloads\/\"><p>Now that you know what Xcode is using, you&rsquo;ll wonder where it&rsquo;s getting the disk image. It&rsquo;s located in a sibling directory: <tt>\/Library\/Developer\/CoreSimulator\/Images<\/tt>. That folder also contains an <tt>images.plist<\/tt> file that contains metadata for the disk images. There are only a handful of files there, but on my Mac they use 13 GB of disk space.<\/p><p>And up until a couple of hours ago, that folder contained 7 GB of data that was incompatible with the current version of Xcode. I had to delete these files manually.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>In the end, this short post saved me 32 GB of disk space. If you&rsquo;re developing for platforms other than the current iOS, you&rsquo;ll likely see something similar. As time passes, you&rsquo;ll need to manually keep an eye on this stuff: Xcode can&rsquo;t clean things up for you because it has no idea what you <em>need<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Craig Hockenberry: Now that you know what Xcode is using, you&rsquo;ll wonder where it&rsquo;s getting the disk image. It&rsquo;s located in a sibling directory: \/Library\/Developer\/CoreSimulator\/Images. That folder also contains an images.plist file that contains metadata for the disk images. There are only a handful of files there, but on my Mac they use 13 GB [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-11-22T19:57:47Z","apple_news_api_id":"8b10ccfb-ab6b-4fc6-8af5-318d8223e6ad","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-11-22T19:57:47Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AixDM-6trT8aK9TGNgiPmrQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30,2223,71,1959,226],"class_list":["post-37678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-mac","tag-macos-13-ventura","tag-programming","tag-simulator","tag-xcode"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37679,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37678\/revisions\/37679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}