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1. #DISK INVENTORY X OR GRAND PERSPECTIVE CODE#
2. #DISK INVENTORY X OR GRAND PERSPECTIVE FREE#
3. #DISK INVENTORY X OR GRAND PERSPECTIVE WINDOWS#

Meaning it’s like the Apple Store where updates are automatic - but Brew is 93% less annoying. It uses a so called tree map for visualisation. It can help you to manage your disk, as you can easily spot which files and folders take up the most space. GrandPerspective + Brew = Chocolate + Peanut Butterīrew is the “missing package manager” for Mac. GrandPerspective is a small utility application for macOS that graphically shows the disk usage within a file system.

However, I’m always wary of things still hosted on SourceForge. This is the most active open source disk usaged analyzer on the market. Sad!Īpparently, while I was busy being gluttonous with my storage and a newer competitior emerged on the market and it’s eloquently named GrandPerspective.ĭon’t be fooled by it’s rather outdated website with Times New Roman font. It has a Finder plugin and the most options between the 3 on preferences.

The grahpics isn't as good as GrandPerspective neither the list as good as OmniDiskSweeper, but it does a good job mixing both. Recently I tried to kick the tires on my computer with Disk Inventory X to see where I could save a few gigs of space.Īfter about 10 minutes of chugging along - poor Disk Inventory X couldn’t handle the load and crashed like that one famous zepplin. Disk Inventory X also uses the Treemap graphical scheme but along side a list view of folders and files. Seriously valuable stuff when 80 gigabyte hard drives were price-y. It would allow you to visualize your disk usage at a glance. avi’s that were chewing up valuable disk space.

#DISK INVENTORY X OR GRAND PERSPECTIVE FREE#

On my Mac with a 256 SSD - you can see at the bottom, 172 GB is free for new files since the purgeable don't need any action if I choose to add more files - they do important work speeding up network calls and also save the SSD wear cycles from erasing cached files that are likely to be used again.Back in my day (circa early 2000’s), we used this awesome tool called Disk Inventory X to peek into our limited hard drives to find old legally sourced. In the comments, I recommended you use Apple tools or something like DaisyDisk which does classify purgeable space and snapshots apart from the "user space" you want to focus on to free space. Firm links and sandboxes and sealed system volumes mean that even tools that try to "traverse" one home for user files won't catch application caches, settings, data as easily as before. In your case - 50 GB of apps, 5 GB of iCloud data and 4 GB of Documents maptģ. Increased usage of firmlinks and to a lesser extent hard links.Sparse files, purgeable files (cloud backed files that serve as "cache" can be freed on demand) also make it more complicated when "file size" is not necessarily the "space used on disk" and when two files use the same space - the tools don't know if the OS has commingled those identical bits or not.Snapshots and copy on write mean that files can share space on the disk.Three major changes have made older tools like Grand Perspective and Disk Inventory less useful. Similarly to Disk Inventory, it uses a tree map for visualization of the file system. I don't believe you have any issues and everything looks quite normal. Grand Perspective is an open-source application that is free.

#DISK INVENTORY X OR GRAND PERSPECTIVE WINDOWS#

Im coming from windows and i dont know if this is normal.Īnd last but not least is this overly large block of data that i found using disk inventory x that cannot be found. I cant say I ever seen anything about the commonly mentioned disk visualizer tools, listed here, that would indicate that any of them would be malicious in any way.

#DISK INVENTORY X OR GRAND PERSPECTIVE CODE#

There is a chance that it has something to do with all of this but i dont know how, or where i should start fixing the problem.įirst of all, is this volume "layout" normal? Disk Inventory X is a open source product so you could inspect and compile the source code on your own. I must also mention that I had an issue with macos big sur which led to me reinstalling macos couple of months ago. I cannot imagine what the issue could be, thats why im going to tackle it down one by one. System information tells me that i have ~90gb free space on my mac while disk utility tells me that its ~70gb,onyx says its <60gb and storage management is more along the lines of ~85gb. It is not a local snapshot issue, i already got rid of every snapshot. The numbers that disk utility, system information, storage management and onyx were giving me were not the same. In the last couple of days I noticed that there was something off about my storage. New mac user here running Monterey 12.1 (21C52) and I wanted to know if this Drive/ Volume layout is normal.