Think it’s useful? Download Disk Inventory X here. If it defaults to showing them in descending order, another click. Click on Size on Disk so that appears as a column, then click on the column header to sort. However, there’s the similar WinDirStat if you’re a full-time Windows user. If you go to library and use list view (accessible using the circled button), then right click in the bar which says Games/Status/Metascore you can select the displayed columns. The last time I ran this, it showed me a large archive of old emails that I didn’t need anymore too.ĭisk Inventory X works on Mac and Windows partitions, though it’s a Mac-only app, so it is helpful if you’re trying to diagnose disk issues on a Boot Camp partitions. You can home in on problem files just by hovering over them, or get an idea of whether you need to move your photo library somewhere else.Īs you can see above, I’ve got a big file taking up quite a large amount of space – though clicking on it shows it’s actually my Mac’s sleep image. Then you can decide what you want to delete or move to another drive in order to free up disk space. Essentially, a quick visual way of showing which files and file types are consuming space on a drive. Using the fantastic Disk Inventory X App, you can scan your hard drive(s) and you’ll be presented with a detailed, easy to read list of all the files on your drive sorted by file type and size. This invaluable – free – app scans your hard drive and shows your usage in the form of a treemap. And my Applications folder isn’t big enough to justify the lack of space.Įnter my app of the week: Disk Inventory X. My Documents folder is only a few gig, as I save the majority of my work related content to a office cloud server. So where the hell has all my disk space gone? It’s not just the fact I’ve donated 20 GB to Windows. Disk Inventory X is described as disk usage utility for Mac OS X 10.3 (and later). In my case, my Mac laptop has a relatively small solid-state drive (SSD) and I’m one of those annoying people that decides he wants to use both Mac OS X and Windows, via Boot Camp. But there are still plenty of reasons why you might run out of disk space. In the era of “the cloud”, it seems odd perhaps to be concerned about how much free disk space your computer has left. Originally published on the Melbourne blog.
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