Easy-to-use free disk space apps

Skyboat · 3 Oct 2013 at 12:23

So my girlfriend's at uni and has again ran out of space on her 128GB MBA. She's managed to free up 9GB or so by moving photos across to an external HDD and deleting some old downloads etc., but I'd like for her to use something that will tell her in relative detail how her disk space is being used, ideally by content and location.

About My Mac is too vague and GrandPerspective is too verbose, something in between would be nice, and not too overwhelming or complicated.

Any ideas folks?

inogen · 3 Oct 2013 at 12:25

http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/

Treefilesize

Skyboat · 3 Oct 2013 at 12:32

inogen said:
http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/

Treefilesize

That appears to be Windows only.

I would have thought it was obvious I was after Mac software.

inogen · 3 Oct 2013 at 14:14

Skyboat said:
That appears to be Windows only.

I would have thought it was obvious I was after Mac software.

Ahh... There are Mac versions. Tree Size and and WhatSize.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=treefilesize+mac

But hey.

Tunney · 3 Oct 2013 at 14:59

Daisy Disk isn't free but probably worth it if you've only got 128GB of storage. My main disk is 256GB and I use it all the time.

slinxy · 3 Oct 2013 at 19:05

I'd just used this myself today... Disk Inventory X

http://www.derlien.com/

Gives you a nice block graph showing what files/folders are using what space and the option to delete the file with the program or show in finder.

PardonTheWait · 3 Oct 2013 at 22:15

Diskwave is awesome. I prefer it to Daisy Disk.

slinxy · 5 Oct 2013 at 09:56

If shes not done so already, she can remove a lot of the stock files from the OS and programs.

Try monolingual
http://sourceforge.net/projects/monolingual/?source=pdlp

this will remove all languages and architectures that she may never use freeing up hdd space. Its worth running it every so often as updates and programs will keep install all known languages packages for themselves.