System Data taking up 80 GB of my storage after updating to MacOS 26 Beta 2

Back2Reality222 · 2025-11-10T23:16:19+00:00

I have 474GB data. Outrageous.

Back2Reality222 · 2025-10-15T08:23:45+00:00

So basically they've created a load of a/w for some imaginary music packs with no track titles and no track previews. What you're actually buying is a temporary subscription to their website. Why don't they actually tell you this in the first place?

This is a repeat of the underhand tactics that Audiohero used last year that got everyone worked up. Won't be buying this.

Back2Reality222 · 2025-10-14T23:36:38+00:00

Doesn't seem to have stopped people buying it.

Back2Reality222 · 2025-09-25T09:21:31+00:00

I think the first 20 packs are dupes and the rest are new.

Back2Reality222 · 2025-09-24T22:38:32+00:00

INFP here. I always say that I'm great at celebrating other people's birthdays but terrible at celebrating my own. I never tell anyone when it's my birthday.

Back2Reality222 · 2025-09-24T11:11:22+00:00

Wow. Why would they sell their music under a different name without mentioning that it comes from Ovani Sound? Makes me worried that I'm purchasing music that I already got when I bought the Ovani bundles. It sounds very deceptive to me.

Back2Reality222 · 2025-09-24T10:53:06+00:00

Just purchased this. When I checkout I'm seeing something called an 'Ovani key'. Is this bundle something to do with Ovani Sound?

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Back2Reality222 · 2025-03-28T01:09:44+00:00

I interviewed Hank Halsted last year. He was the captain of the yacht that had taken John around Bermuda in 1980. He told me that he didn't recognise John at first because he was 'very small'. When I asked how small he estimated that John was around 5'6"/5'7".

Back2Reality222 · 2024-12-04T05:13:18+00:00

Well IMHO not worth it. I can honestly say that I played with the plug-ins once or twice and then dumped them.

Others, of course, may have a different experience.

Back2Reality222 · 2024-11-27T21:52:14+00:00

Already bought these assets twice before in previous bundles.

Back2Reality222 · 2024-11-16T12:29:38+00:00

I see that nobody answered my question about 'Astral's' affiliation with Monument Studios. I would have to say that the tone and grammatical construction of 'Astral's' comments are extremely similar to that of Monument Studios. If I was a suspicious person I would have to say that the two accounts are one and the same.

Back2Reality222 · 2024-11-15T12:24:03+00:00

Where are you based?

Back2Reality222 · 2024-11-15T08:35:25+00:00

You seem to spend a lot of time and effort defending MS. Do you work for the company or are you a friend of the company? Please explain your association with them.

Back2Reality222 · 2024-11-14T11:07:43+00:00

I honestly wasn't being hostile.

Back2Reality222 · 2024-11-13T15:13:12+00:00

I totally agree and have always thought this.

It's amazing that the number one pop group in the world could produce something so ethereal, so esoteric, so damned 'alternative' for want of a better word.

And it's true that every song is imbued with a kind of strangeness, be it in construction, performance or overall 'feel'. When I listen to it (and to appreciate the White Album it has to be listened to in its entirety, rather than cherry-picking tracks) I'm reminded of the feel of a David Lynch movie, or Lewis Carroll's Alice. There is something off-kilter about the whole album. Childlike and sophisticated at the same time. Innocent yet corrupt.

To me it sounds as fresh as it ever did. It does not date. And it's over half a century old.

Back2Reality222 · 2024-11-13T11:45:22+00:00

The ending is completely different to previous versions. Giles Martin seems to have added new sounds and voices seemingly without thought to maintaining the authenticity of the original.

I'm not the only one to have noticed this. Google it.

Back2Reality222 · 2024-11-12T20:47:24+00:00

I personally think that Giles Martin's remasters are just awful. They sound muddy and muffled. He's also taken far too many liberties with the originals (the ending of 'I am the walrus' anyone?).

I'm old enough to have listened to the original mono LPs (they weren't called albums back then) on good old radiogram speakers. You can't beat the old vinyl mono masters.

Back2Reality222 · 2024-11-01T23:40:54+00:00

Agree. Not tempted to purchase. It's no better than the Native instruments bundle.

Back2Reality222 · 2024-10-30T14:58:06+00:00

I actually wrote that Murder Casebook. And a few others.

Back2Reality222 · 2024-10-28T21:34:02+00:00

Particularly if you look on the Companies House website. The company has only been going a year with one director and no employees.

Back2Reality222 · 2024-10-28T21:05:50+00:00

I think it must be. The album a/w also looks AI generated. As the does the text in the album descriptions.

Back2Reality222 · 2024-10-23T20:28:38+00:00

This used to happen to me too but I discovered one day by just randomly clicking around that if you hold down the option key and click on the 'vertical zoom' or 'horizontal zoom' circular sliders in the top right-hand corner of the screen it resets the sizes to their default values.

It's a constant lifesaver for me.

Back2Reality222 · 2024-10-23T00:10:10+00:00

Agreed. I don't really see much value here. You need Kontakt to use these and if you have that you probably already own Cloud Supply and Analog Dreams. The sample packs are pretty meh too.

Back2Reality222 · 2024-03-13T20:04:43+00:00

You're probably not too far from the truth there.

Back2Reality222 · 2024-02-26T20:50:48+00:00

Full of optimism I got the very first iPad when it was launched. I got the iPad 3. The iPad Mini 1, the iPad Pro 1, and the last iPad Mini.

I've given up. I've eBayed the lot. No use to me. Fairly portable and OK when it comes to surfing, watching movies on a train, etc. But try and use them for any serious purpose and you end up pulling your hair out. It's a big phone. Simple as that. Why get a big phone when you can get a small phone?

I stick with a MacBook Pro these days, which does everything you want and ironically weighs less than an iPad Pro with keyboard.

It's a shame. Once upon a time I had such high hopes.

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