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Running out of space?
Posted by rod@drury.net.nz in Apple at 9:21 pm on Monday, 14 January 2008

I am on my MacBook. Found this great utility WhatSize, which allows you to see immediately what’s chewing up disk.

I found an 9GB XP image on Parallels which I’m not now using and near 3GB of Entourage 2004 storage not touched since moving to Entourage 2008.

I’m now back to reckless storage.

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Comments(6)

    Comment by Will at 9:53 pm on 14 January 2008

    Omni disk sweeper is also a great app the works in the same way. Some of the big culprits are the hidden .vol files from incomplete burning sessions and .log files that infinite loop errors can swell to tens of gigs.




    Comment by Kai Koenig at 8:50 am on 15 January 2008

    WhatSize is a great tool. I found some video editing leftovers of roughly 12 GB the other day… As Will said, there are plenty of other space wasters in OS X, particular log files etc. OnyX is pretty handy to keep things clean.




    Comment by Paul Campbell at 9:12 am on 15 January 2008

    I really like filelight which does this great very simple pie-chart thing - it’s OS, there’s a mac version too




    Comment by Richard at 10:26 am on 15 January 2008

    Another similar too for linux is the disk usage analyser (Baobab). It is bundled with Ubuntu and has a lovely pie style chart. http://www.gnome.org/~ebassi/baobab-ringchart.png




    Comment by Brett Cooper at 11:26 am on 15 January 2008

    I’m too poor to own a mac, but on the pc I use SpaceMonger http://www.werkema.com
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceMonger It gives a quick visual on the space used and is freeware. Nice Blog Rod




    Comment by evan at 4:25 pm on 15 January 2008

    For other Mac users who are looking for a free (GPL) solution, Disk Inventory X seems to do the trick pretty well. I’m not sure if there are some features missing, but It seems to do everything you’ve described, and it has a fairly pretty interface to boot:

    http://www.derlien.com/