Kid mode ๐Ÿง’

Brandon's computer is almost full, like a backpack stuffed so tight the zipper barely closes. This map shows the biggest, heaviest things inside, mostly music files. Some can be tossed right away (old installers, scratch recordings). The rest get carried to a plug-in drive so the main backpack can breathe. Nothing important is thrown away, it just moves.

Mac Space Map ยท Macintosh HD ยท verified scan 2026-06-20

What to move to free up disk

Your startup disk is nearly full. Below is the big movable data, split into clear-now (no drive) and move-to-T7. Everything is a move, not a blind delete.

98%
disk used (920 of 957 GB)
21 GB
free right now
~14 GB
clean clear, no drive, no Ableton step
~100 GB
verified low-risk total

Clear now โ€” no external drive needed

Installers you already ran, scratch recordings, a dated backup, and files already staged for deletion.

Move to the T7 Shield (plug it in first)

Archival folders and audio libraries. Bar length is proportional to size on disk.

archival, move now audio libraries project outputs stems โ€” update path map after

Two corrections from the deep scan

The 13 GB Ableton "Samples" folder is shared. Live sets reference it by path, so moving it breaks projects unless you Collect-All-and-Save first. The clean Ableton win is Drums (10 GB, 2012) + Hotel Midi2 (6.7 GB, 2016), about 17 GB, not the full 54 GB.
The Phish folders are complementary halves, not duplicates. Checksums prove 0 identical files. phsih jams holds drums/bass/vocals stems, Phish jams holds piano/guitar/other plus the mp3s and analysis. Deleting either destroys half of every 6-stem split. Merge, do not dedupe, then move the combined 16 GB to T7.
Do not bulk-move ~/Music/Ableton/Live Recordings. Three saved sets reference recordings inside it: Phish n3.als, awd.als, and Hotel Midi2/Old stuff/divina.als. Open those three and run File → Collect All and Save first, which copies the audio into each project. Only then is the rest of the 8.7 GB orphaned and safe. Note divina lives inside Hotel Midi2 but points out to Live Recordings, so those two folders are cross-linked.

Clear-now commands (move, not delete)

PURGE=~/"New Desktop/_to-empty-2026-06-20"; mkdir -p "$PURGE"

# used installers + packs (you already ran these)
mv ~/Downloads/complete/complete/Ableton\ Stuff/ableton_live_intro_10.1_64.zip "$PURGE"/
mv ~/"Music/Music Production/inMusic" "$PURGE"/ # MPC-Beats installer

# dated one-time backup (3.5 GB)
mv ~/"New Desktop/_Archive/Backups/claude-primary-account-backup-20260513.tar.gz" "$PURGE"/

# already-staged-for-delete folders (2.3 GB)
mv ~/"New Desktop/delete" "$PURGE"/
mv ~/"New Desktop/bible-commentary-index/delete" "$PURGE"/

# Live Recordings (8.7 GB) โ€” NOT here. Collect-All-and-Save the 3 sets above in
# Ableton FIRST, then stage the leftover Temp folders. See the red card above.

That block is the ~14 GB clean win, no Ableton step required. Then empty ~/New Desktop/_to-empty-2026-06-20 on your own schedule. Per your never-delete rule, nothing is removed here, it is staged for you.

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