Visualization
GrandPerspective provides a visual representation of disk usage, allowing users to easily identify large files and folders at a glance through a treemap display.
Open Source
The software is open source, meaning it is free to use and its source code is accessible for modification and improvement by the community.
User-Friendly
The interface is simple and intuitive, making it easy for users of all levels of technical expertise to navigate and understand their disk usage.
Customizable
Users can customize the treemap view, including color schemes and block sizes, to better suit their preferences and needs.
For my MacOS friends, it might be a little outdated but I prefer GrandPerspective: https://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/.
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4 months ago
Any of the following should help with identifying where the mystery space lives: DaisyDisk, GrandPerspective, or OmniDiskSweeper.
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10 months ago
I recommend the free graphical utility GrandPerspective to find out what is taking space and take action.
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10 months ago
Try https://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/ … just a simple app to find large files and folders.
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10 months ago
GrandPerspective – this app is free to download. The app is paid in the Mac App Store for what is essentially donation. It breaks down your disk usage graphically. This is the first step to cleaning your drive.
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about 1 year ago
Download the free and excellent GrandPerspective app and scan your disk, it will show you in a nested grahical form what is taking space. Maybe it’s a sleep image, maybe it’s on-disk TM backups cos you haven’t connected your TM disk in a while, maybe it’s some crazy big cache… GP will let you know so you can fix it.
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about 1 year ago
I use DaisyDisk for the listing, but sometimes for a clearer overview I prefer Grandperspective which is free.
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over 1 year ago
Don’t know about keeping it “clean” but to see and remove larger files use Grand Perspective.
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over 1 year ago
Use either DaisyDisk or GrandPerspective to identify the largest blocks of data on the system.
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over 1 year ago
Other than this, you may want to use DaisyDisk or GrandPerspective.
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over 1 year ago
Using DaisyDisk or GrandPerspective is likely your best bet. The first has a free trial, the latter can be downloaded completely for free unless you want to purchase it via the App Store.
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over 1 year ago
GrandPerspective will do this as well (though DaisyDisk is a much more polished and Mac-like app).
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over 1 year ago
I don’t think it’s Time Machine local snapshots. To get a better idea of what’s taking up the space you may need to use DaisyDisk or GrandPerspective and give whichever one you choose disk access.
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over 1 year ago
Use DaisyDisk or GrandPerspective to find out where those files reside.
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over 1 year ago
You might want to check out GrandPerspective.
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over 1 year ago
Grandperspective (Free)
GrandPerspective is a small utility application for macOS that graphically shows the disk usage within a file system. It can help you to manage your disk, as you can easily spot which files and folders take up the most space. It uses a so-called tree map for visualisation. Each file is shown as a rectangle with an area proportional to the file’s size. Files in the same folder appear…
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over 1 year ago
You should be able to use DaisyDisk or GrandPerspective to confirm whether there are any lingering traces of those Steam games remaining.
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over 1 year ago
Or get it from here if you don’t use homebrew.
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over 1 year ago
If I were you, I’d use a utility like DaisyDisk or GrandPerspective to scan the startup volume as administrator, and take a look at what space is being used by other users on the system.
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over 1 year ago
Do you use Dropbox or OneDrive (I suppose any cloud storage software could also cause this) by chance? I had to use GrandPerspective on my own system recently to figure it out.
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over 1 year ago
Chrome is roughly 1 GB in size, deleting it is not likely to free up enough space for you to install a macOS update. Have you tried these steps? How about using DaisyDisk or GrandPerspective to identify what items are taking up the most storage?
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over 1 year ago
