Move Developer Folder

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I want to free some space on my SSD.

Is there a way to move the Developer folder from my root drive to another one without breaking anything?

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It might not hurt anything, or it might. A better (if more time-consuming) solution might be to delete your existing Developer folder, then re-install the dev tools to the drive you want them to be on. This will ensure that everything that has to be in /Developer is there.

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Do you have this working successfully?

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chflags hidden ~/Documents

Then creating a link to it such as (in Terminal):

cd ~
mkdir stuff
cd stuff
ln -s ~/Documents

I believe that this will hide the ~/Documents folder from the Finder but it will still be there so anything writing to it will work OK. In addition you will see the link in ~/stuff...

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Per Wikipedia's article on hard links:

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