I recently realised that I had a large portion of my MBP's hard drive, I couldn't work out where all the space was being used up. After scanning my Mac with various free tools from the Mac App Store they didn't really do the job I wanted them to do i.e show me what was taking up all the space?!
I stumbled across Daisy Disk and thought I'd give it a go. This app is awesome and it should really have an equivalent Mac OS X native app, built into Disk Utility. What Daisy Disk does is visually map your computers HD and/or attached HD's including Dropbox folders externel USB drives etc.
Here is an overview once you've scanned a particular drive.
When you hover over the segments you get an overview of what that folder is and it's contents, obviously the bigger the segment the larger the file/folder. Really handy when trying to determine where large files or folders are quickly.
When you've selected a segment this is what you'll see (not my favourite choice of music...) this.
After spending roughly 50 minutes scanning and determining what I do and don't need I managed to clear over 100gb of unused crap.
The app is currently on sale and totally worth the price.
Link: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/daisydisk/id411643860?mt=12
*I am in no way affiliated to this app or the developers.
I stumbled across Daisy Disk and thought I'd give it a go. This app is awesome and it should really have an equivalent Mac OS X native app, built into Disk Utility. What Daisy Disk does is visually map your computers HD and/or attached HD's including Dropbox folders externel USB drives etc.
Here is an overview once you've scanned a particular drive.
When you hover over the segments you get an overview of what that folder is and it's contents, obviously the bigger the segment the larger the file/folder. Really handy when trying to determine where large files or folders are quickly.
When you've selected a segment this is what you'll see (not my favourite choice of music...) this.
After spending roughly 50 minutes scanning and determining what I do and don't need I managed to clear over 100gb of unused crap.
The app is currently on sale and totally worth the price.
Link: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/daisydisk/id411643860?mt=12
*I am in no way affiliated to this app or the developers.
