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. 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