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Try something like disk inventory X. It's a life saver.
by keyle 4y ago
Try something like disk inventory X. It's a life saver.
- kitsunesoba 4y agoMy longstanding favorite for this has been OmniDiskSweeper[0]. It's dead simple and I've been using it for just about the entirety of OS X's existence. [0]: https://www.omnigroup.com/more/ https://www.omnigroup.com/more/
- gtm1260 4y agoGotta put a word in for daisy disk! Maybe you're paying for some fancy animations, but by golly are they nice LOL.
- boopmaster 4y agoI second Daisy Disk. When I made the leap from Windows to mac in the early 00s I wanted something to replace the freeware “scanner” I had found so entirely useful. http://www.steffengerlach.de/freeware/ http://www.steffengerlach.de/freeware/
- arthurcolle 4y agoDaisyDisk is great. Best $10 on an app I've ever spent (circa 2015)
- erwinh 4y agoSome of the best functional data vis out there. For those wondering the chart type used by daisy disk is called a zoomable sunburst.
- darkteflon 4y agoWhat’s the advantage of Daisy Disk over the built-in “About this Mac -> Storage -> Manage”? Always interested in lovely boutique MacOS software, but in this case the website doesn’t sell it well as an alternative to what’s already available.
- tehwebguy 4y agoPut my vote in for `ncdu` (just skip your iCloud folders)
- thuttinger 4y agoI agree, ncdu is a great and easy to use command line tool. On Mac OS, run for example: ncdu -x --exclude /Volumes --exclude /System/Volumes / This scans the root filesystem but excludes the Volume mounts specifically (the -x option to limit the scan to the current filesystem doesn't work properly on mac os). Navigate through the folders, sorted by size, from there. Press d to delete a folder.
- tehwebguy 4y agoOh wow thank you
- moralestapia 4y agoDisk Inventory X is great and that's how I found out the speech folder on my OS X was taking like 12GB.
- odysseus 4y agoThere's a useful Apple-created tool built right into the OS: 1. Cmd-space for Spotlight 2. Type Storage Management 3. Hit Review Files Now you can sort by largest files and quickly make an impact on space used. The only problem I had with Apple's storage management utility is that it kept reporting a Steam game using 27G when that game was long deleted (and Steam itself was deleted). To resolve this, I had to go to the ~/Library/Application Support directory and completely remove the Steam folder (which didn't actually have that 27G game anywhere in it.)