Lets face it, We all hates when is happens and we all know how it feels like to end up with a few gigs on our system HD, Most of us are using 256-500Gb SSD or in some other expensive cases there are also 1TB SSD system HD but you get my point, right?
Since we are all using so many apps that “drinks” up our HD space , I found a great solution to free up some space which can free up to 50Gb–550GB and more, all that by changing the default location of all those big folders that most of our music apps are creating.
Lets take for example only the apps that most of the time are not giving you the flexibility to control and choose which and where the default folder would be :
-Omnisphere: ‘Sage’, ‘Steam’ & “KeyScape” folders (at least 250GB+)
-Logic Pro (50Gb+)
-Cubase (40Gb+)
-Ableton Live (50Gb+)
So what if we could just move all those big folders to a new location? like on an external HD and still make the application think and act like the original folders are still there.
Well for that we will need to install a small FREE app called ‘SymbolicLinker’ — this is a tiny service that once installed, allows any user to create symbolic links to files inside the Finder. It does this by adding a contextual menu item to the Finder that generates symbolic links to the selected files.
In order to install it you just need to copy the SymbolicLinker.service into your Service mac folder which located in /System/Library/Services
After installing(Copy) the file you will see a new service called “Make Symbolic Link” under your right-click menu.
Now, Let's locate the massive folders and free up some space:
For example, Let's go for Spectrasonics folders which are usually huge and located in /Library/Application Support/Spectrasonics/
First, you want to copy the original large folder to another HD.
Now, on the new location, Right click on the copied folder and go down to services tab and click ‘Make Symbolic Link’.
-Now you created the new Symbolic link shortcut for the large folder Go back to the original folder and paste the Symbolic link.
-Delete the original folder.
-Rename the Symbolic link to the same name as the original folder(Just delete the word ‘symlink’ from the shortcut
repeat that for ‘Steam’ and ‘Sage’ folders
-Now your Spectrasonics folder should look like this:
Open Omnisphere and you done.
Enjoy.