installed it. Its ~12KiB or so.
Delete something!
The simplest way of freeing up space is to delete files from the drive. Perhaps there are libraries in the
lib
folder that
you aren't using anymore or test code that isn't in use.
Use tabs
One unique feature of Python is that the indentation of code matters. Usually the recommendation is to indent code
with four spaces for every indent. In general, we recommend that too. However, one trick to storing more human-
readable code is to use a single tab character for indentation. This approach uses 1/4 of the space for indentation and
can be significant when we're counting bytes.
Mac OSX loves to add extra files.
Luckily you can disable some of the extra hidden files that Mac OSX adds by running a few commands to disable
search indexing and create zero byte placeholders. Follow the steps below to maximize the amount of space available
on OSX:
Prevent & Remove Mac OSX Hidden Files
First find the volume name for your board. With the board plugged in run this command in a terminal to list all the
volumes:
Look for a volume with a name like
CIRCUITPY
(the default for CircuitPython). The full path to the volume is
the
/Volumes/CIRCUITPY
path.
Now follow the
steps from this question
(https://adafru.it/u1c)
to run these terminal commands that stop hidden files
from being created on the board:
Replace
/Volumes/CIRCUITPY
in the commands above with the full path to your board's volume if it's different. At this
point all the hidden files should be cleared from the board and some hidden files will be prevented from being created.
ls -l /Volumes
mdutil -i off /Volumes/CIRCUITPY
cd /Volumes/CIRCUITPY
rm -rf .{,_.}{fseventsd,Spotlight-V*,Trashes}
mkdir .fseventsd
touch .fseventsd/no_log .metadata_never_index .Trashes
cd -
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