I've been trying to install Xcode 7 tonight with no real luck.
I'm running a Mac that generally has about 12 GB spare. I tried installing the Xcode 7.1 beta on a separate drive however it insists on installing all of the simulators on the primary hard drive, and it runs out of space.
So perhaps it's time to wipe Xcode and reinstall clean. This mac has a primary drive that started as Snow Leopard on a white macbook back in 2009. It's been backed up and updated regularly, and I wonder if this has left me with a lot of old cruft.
Acording to DaisyDisk I have:
/Applications/Xcode -> 3gb (Xcode 6)
/HD/Library/Developer -> 15.6gb
/HD/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator -> 13gb
/HD/Users/me/Library/Developer -> 69.9gb - why?
/HD/Users/me/Library/Developer/Xcode -> 53gb
/HD/Users/me/Library/Developer/Shared -> 8.7gb
/HD/Users/me/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator -> 8.1gb
/HD/Users/me/Library/Developer/Xcode/iOS DeviceSupport -> 46.7gb - devices all the way back to 5.0.1
/HD/Users/me/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator -> 1.8gb
Really, do we need 4, or 5 folders of simulators, amassing almost 70gb of disk space?
Can I be brutal and remove:
/HD/Users/me/Library/Developer
/HD/Library/Developer
and then reinstall Xcode from scratch? will this actually give some space back?
Any help would be appreciated.
Peter
12 GB spare is barely enough for the OS to create and utilize swap space. Remember that when installing Xcode, as an example, you need:
- space for the download/package
- space to unpack
- space to install
That could amount to from 8 ~ 12 GB as a rough estimate.
I'd at least double the free space, but still consider that cushion to be near minimum, and not for routine operation. I get nervous when I see less than 250 GB free on my 2 TB boot drive.
Rather than try to eke out room on your current HD, I'd invest in much larger HD, with room to grow over the next year or two, at least. Figure what you need and then double that number.
Good luck.