GrandPerspective is a small utility application for Mac OS X 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 together, but their placement is otherwise arbitrary.
The scan is quite fast, the display human understandable so you can identify space-hogs, no matter how deep in your folder structure in seconds.
It's free and open source, so give it at try you wont be disappointed.
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Nice. WinDirStat is the windows equivalent.
great post, thanks! :D
I use that all the time! Such a neat app!
thx for sharing :)
Pretty cool. Definitely seems useful.
Really nice piece of kit.
Cool, thanks for sharing!
That's awesome! Some people are better with seeing things visually than dealing with percentages and numbers. Plus, it's purty.
I love this one!! thanks
very cool :)
nice, I use smart defrag on my pc. looks nice now;
used this before on Mac, definitely a help!
Thanks, my friend uses a mac and shall let them know :)
I prefer using DaisyDisk; much better looking and easier on the eyes. :)
Fun!
looks awesome. i'll try that.
"Human understandable". I don't understand. lol. I think you have to use it to understand.
i have somrthing like this on windows and i still dont know the heck im seeing.
yeah. throw me in the clueless category
Gorgeous interface - love the app! Thanks for showing the world, my brother!
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Ah, tree-maps are so useful.
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nice find cool!
Interesting, love macs!
Now even disk usage looks cool. I like!
That looks pretty weird but useful.
Not sure how useful that would be for me but im sure someone could put it to good use hah
This is sort of like disk defragmenter for windows but only with a cool analyzer :D
neat little program, could actually be useful too
I really need to get a Mac, huh?
always helpful.
visuals are always cool, looks helpful
It looks interesting, but I don't think I would download it...
seems like a neat program ;]
If I had a mac, I might use this.
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I see I've been beaten to the punch. I'll show myself out.
So, which color means what? xD
Wish I knew more about computers haha!
looks cool, but also like a real monster of a program. can't wait to see t in action!
Looks awesome, thanks for the post.
i have a friend that will dig this ill let him in on your blog
I want something like this for PC.
I think this is also for Windows. If not, there are similar programs
thanks for sharing this with the rest of us!! :)
Downloading it now
appealing to the eye and easy on the resources, always a nice combo!
wow great, I'd need that for windows :P
il keep an eye out. following
thx for sharing this info =)
yea used it also, its great!
Very handy.
If i had a mac i'd be getting this.
mac looks so nice! :)
mac this looks great, and thanks for the follow!
Mac looks so nice bro!!!
I'm going to have to check it out. Thanks for the info.
I frankly don't see the issue, with how cheap harddrives are nowadays, I barely have enough stuff to fill mine up with!
Thank you for sharing mate!
this is truly great
That is definitely an interesting approach to mapping out data, very user-friendly.
This is ingenious!
Great, Great info. Very useful for mapping out data. My mac friends will love this.
wow, that looks cool, and is useful?
really nice!
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If I had a mac, I'd try this one for sure man.
followed your blog, interesting content id say :3
very interesting.
I love these things! I usually use WinDirStat just because it has that map.
i been thinking about switch to mac, another cool feature.
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Hmmm... interesting, I suppose.
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Awesome. Losing space on the hard drive is always a big problem for me...maybe I'll take the time to download this, thank you.
Wow that looks cool! If only I had that on my windows :(
Interesting stuff. Too bad it's just for a Mac.
Kind of cool but don't see the use for it that much, could be applications with better GUI in my opinion.
Thats pretty cool looking. Ill check it out.
Cool program, could be really useful
Great post as always! I love the find
thanks. that was actually the program i needed, because something used to much space and i couldn't indetify it ;)
I could realLy use that
mac? what's that... it does not work on my pc :(
Is it really useful? I somehow don't see a use for me, personally. I mean, I have a program that tells me if I have doubles on my harddrive and it displays in some graphical way.
will download thanks
I have a similar program for the PC called Spacemonger. It makes cleaning up a harddrive much easier.
A shame I do not have a mac ;)
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Thanks, bro. I was going to ask about that.
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