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I'm personally quite fond of DaisyDisk on Mac, https://daisydiskapp.com/ https://daisydiskapp.com/ Which uses a circular visualization

by ubercow 10y ago

cyberferret 10y ago
Daisydisk has probably the best representation of file usage that I have seen to date. The circular presentation works better for me than the 'blocks' of other systems. I also really like the animation as you drill down into bloated folders - Really helps to bring attention to where you need to look in order to free up space. I can find offending files/folders much quicker in DaisyDisk that any other usage reporting tool.
- oneeyedpigeon 10y ago
  I've always been a big fan of DaisyDisk — I used it just today to free up a whole bunch of space — but I thought I'd give FlameGraph a go. It helped me free up 2.2GB of totally valuable space (this is a 120GB MBP - brutal) with 2 clicks instead of the 6 it would have taken DaisyDisk. DaisyDisk essentially shows the exact same info as FlameGraph — if you 'unwrap the wheel' it's exactly the same! — but the latter makes the excellent design decision to label many of the bigger directories on the graph, rather than just a single level in a key. Often, when you're looking for big directories, you're really looking for big unnecessary directories, and being able to see way ahead really helps.
- predakanga 10y ago
  I'm sure there are arguments as to whether it's the "best" representation, but I'd contend that it's the most intuitive. It's probably the first OS X App where I bought licenses for the whole family; they all benefited from it.
  - cyberferret 10y ago
    I probably should have made more emphasis that it is the "best" that I personally have found. Mainly in terms of ratios - I think my mind perceives size ratios better on a circular pie style presentation (as DaisyDisk does), rather than stacked blocks as most other utilities use.

I'm personally quite fond of DaisyDisk on Mac, https://daisydiskapp.com/ https://daisydiskapp.com/ Which uses a circular visualization

by ubercow 10y ago

I'm personally quite fond of DaisyDisk on Mac, https://daisydiskapp.com/ https://daisydiskapp.com/ Which uses a circular visualization

cyberferret 10y ago

Daisydisk has probably the best representation of file usage that I have seen to date. The circular presentation works better for me than the 'blocks' of other systems. I also really like the animation as you drill down into bloated folders - Really helps to bring attention to where you need to look in order to free up space. I can find offending files/folders much quicker in DaisyDisk that any other usage reporting tool.

oneeyedpigeon 10y ago
I've always been a big fan of DaisyDisk — I used it just today to free up a whole bunch of space — but I thought I'd give FlameGraph a go. It helped me free up 2.2GB of totally valuable space (this is a 120GB MBP - brutal) with 2 clicks instead of the 6 it would have taken DaisyDisk. DaisyDisk essentially shows the exact same info as FlameGraph — if you 'unwrap the wheel' it's exactly the same! — but the latter makes the excellent design decision to label many of the bigger directories on the graph, rather than just a single level in a key. Often, when you're looking for big directories, you're really looking for big unnecessary directories, and being able to see way ahead really helps.
predakanga 10y ago
I'm sure there are arguments as to whether it's the "best" representation, but I'd contend that it's the most intuitive. It's probably the first OS X App where I bought licenses for the whole family; they all benefited from it.
- cyberferret 10y ago
  I probably should have made more emphasis that it is the "best" that I personally have found. Mainly in terms of ratios - I think my mind perceives size ratios better on a circular pie style presentation (as DaisyDisk does), rather than stacked blocks as most other utilities use.