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The new SSDs in our Macs are fabulous for speed but they're smaller than our older spinning hard drives. This means that space is at a premium, so it can be very useful to have some tools to identify where disk space is being unnecessarily wasted.
In this tutorial, Allison looks at two utilities: a purely text-based tool called OmniDiskSweeper from the Omni Group, and a beautiful graphical app called GrandPerspective. Both can help you make the most out of the disk space you have, but take a completely different perspective in attacking the problem.
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Thanks, Allison! I've used GrandPerspective for a very long time, but I had no idea it had this capablility. I'll be using it a lot more!
I meant "capability"!!!
Tony - I had the same reaction when I started digging in, I thought I knew it all but uncovered so many cool features.
There's a Size Window as part of Path Finder which looks and operates much like OmniDiskSweeper. You can delete from the window as well as use Path Finder to move files off to External drives of course. Path Finder is a much bigger app of course and costs quite a bit more.
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