![]() You can find more information about it in the applications manual. ![]() Conversion between the file types listed below is also possible with the help of GrandPerspective. If your startup disk is nearly full, try either of these apps to make hunting down large files and folders faster and easier. GrandPerspective is capable of opening the file types listed below. Then, right- or Control-click the block to reveal it in the Finder, delete it immediately, open it, or use Quick Look to see its contents. GrandPerspective is like a Mondrian painting, with bigger blocks representing bigger files and related content represented by the same (or similar) color.Ĭlick any block to see its size and location on your disk. The result is like a busy Mondrian painting on your screen. Each block represents a file similar files are represented using similar colors. Rather than displaying a list of folders and files, it instead displays colored squares and rectangles of varying sizes and shapes with no text at all. The other large file finding app, GrandPerspective from Erwin Bonsma, is more visual. OmniDiskSweeper is text-oriented, displaying traditional file and folder names and sizes as text. GrandPerspective can find huge files fast, too OmniDiskSweeper looks (and works) a lot like a Finder window in Column view (sorted by size). I usually start with my Home and Applications folders, which are the two most likely places I’ll find huge files I can either delete with a single click, or archive to another disk. Now, just click any folder in any column to sort its contents by size. The difference is that in OmniDiskSweeper the columns are always sorted by size with the largest item on top. The first free app is OmniDiskSweeper from the Omni Group, which displays your files in a column browser that looks like the Finder’s Column view. Both have been around for years, and both hunt down those large files faster and easier (at least in my humble opinion) than the aforementioned techniques. So, use them if you like.īut… (there’s always a “but”), I always use one of two free apps to hunt down huge files fast. ![]() Those are all fine ways to find humongous files, and they’re all free. You can search for files larger than X megabytes you can sort items in Finder windows by size or you can choose Apple Menu > About This Mac, click the Storage tab, and then click the Manage button to delete large files by category (Apps, Documents, iBooks, iOS Files, Mail, etc.). Then, when I notice that free space on my startup disk is 25% or less, I begin looking for large files I can archive (copy to a different disk and then delete) or delete outright. I use the Status Bar (View–>Show Status Bar) at the bottom of my Finder windows to keep track of the free space available on my startup disk. It’s a good idea to delete or archive files long before your disk gets totally full. Last week I explained that your Mac will slow down if your startup disk gets too full, and that if you fill it up completely, your Mac might not even be able to start up. ![]()
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