Finding Disk Space Hogs
July 17th, 2007Your Mac has thousands of files tucked inside. Which files are taking up tons of space? It’s not always obvious as you peruse your home folder in the Finder.
You could make a Smart Folder and tell it to show you files over a certain size. Or you could open the Inspector and click all over the place looking for a folder stuffed with nine hundred raw image files. But there’s another way.
Donation-ware Disk Inventory X is a handy little application for quickly spotting the space hogs on your Mac. The program creates a graphical representation - called a treemap - of your disk (disks) with larger files displayed as large color-coded blocks. Large folders are also readily apparent, with their contents shown as tiny little blocks.
The interface is well-designed - making it easy to hop around the large occupants on your drives. A path is displayed showing the location of a selected block. A floating window can provide detailed information about each file. Disk Inventory X also has options to reveal files in Finder or delete them through a handy control-click menu.
It’s not the only way to manage your disk space - but it’s fast and well-designed. If you need to find some quick candidates for deletion Disk Inventory X could be the tool you’re looking for.
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July 17th, 2007 at 12:42 pm
It’s a great idea, but the “boxes” of data do seem a little cluttered.
August 8th, 2007 at 3:35 pm
The easiest way to ferret out your disk-hogging files; including all the big invisible ones — AND delete them too is to use either of the following applications:
Omni Disk Sweeper
What Size
August 31st, 2007 at 5:15 pm
Where’s Murphy?
September 13th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
Hey, a last they ported sequoia view to the mac. I hope this app shows hidden files too, gonna put me hands on it right now.