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- Madbob, on 10/12/2007, -27/+12Well, mine shows lots of blue... which is representing .aiff's... good old garage band jampacks!! (17.5GB worth!).
- affanjam, on 10/12/2007, -5/+120Why does porn have such a big square!?
- AssProphet, on 10/12/2007, -9/+11On a mac I prefer WhatSize. It's more of a size and deletion manager than a visulization tool, but I find that much more useful anyway. http://www.id-design.com/software/whatsize/index.php
- skyhighrockets, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Which is better? WhatSize or this?
- exabytes18, on 10/12/2007, -15/+2I disagree.
- airmann90, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Spacemonger beats this, but im just a Hiren's BD Junky...
- theman8631, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8This is a clone of windirstat for pc, the best hd space analizers for pc. So if it is as good on a mac then use this.
- stephenwq, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3I use Treesize free, its very good for doing this kinda thing.
Im suprised no one has mentioned it. - arnar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Actually, I have found JDiskReport to be the best program of this sort - even though it's primarily meant to be a showcase of a UI support library.
http://www.jgoodies.com/freeware/jdiskreport/index.html
Check out the multilevel pie-chart.
And it's cross platform (well, almost, it's java) - wvdavis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@ arna - You forgot... it is portable and can be ran from a thumb drive. Great for doing TS stuff.
- ahknight, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Another vote for WhatSize. Much easier and faster than this program.
- Frankie4Fingers, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1Just MAC software... who cares..... 5% of computer users I guess. It is funny how MAC users is such a low percentage on the internet but such a high percentage on this news blog. Therefore this makes for a non-representative mix of user community.
- TheFoundry, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4For anyone here using Linux/Unix/BSD, I highly recommend File Light. It does a great job and is very detailed.
http://www.methylblue.com/filelight/ - ewap8, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0This shouldnt be here coz the software is not universal yet. Only beta versions of Disk Inv. are universal.
- tizz66, on 10/12/2007, -2/+149Windows readers, there's a similar tool available for you, again FOSS: http://windirstat.sourceforge.net/
- verifex, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Windirstat rocks them all, been using this for a while, it also works on network drives! Hurray!
- emorphien, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8ahhh cool! I don't need one for my Mac, I don't keep many files on it. I want one for my PC.
- suicidal-kid, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6This just might be one of the most usefull apps i have ever used.
- Lumiras, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Major diggs for the Windows version of this app. Very, very useful. It's a lot easier to manage my hard disk if I can visually see where huge, useless files are rather than wading through sub-folder after sub-folder
- TheGuy20, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10I'm using this just for the little PAC MAN.
- YmerejO42, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Digging just because I like WinDirStat, never heard of it before but found it because of your post. Thanks!
- DarkPhoen1x, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5very, very cool. I forgot about the 89gb movie file i had...good ol' uncompressed video :P
- dvinnen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2dugg for the same reason, cool app
- goffy59, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1thank you so much!
- mike_p, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This program has helped me so much over the summer... only had limited space and lots of it was music, WoW, and Call of Duty 2... thank the creator(s) of this app, it is absolutely fantastic and worth every penny (if it were to cost money, that is!)
- jett, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Thanks for the link. I used TreeSize before and it's good to know that there's an open source equivalent. (and it's good I read the comments too ... when I saw it was Mac only I moved on to the next Digg article).
- noseeme, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Here's a list of more in Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treemapping - BuGz213, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1cool thx... i dont have a mac and i wanted to try this out on my pc...
- scratched, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I had forgotten the name of this App and needed it to clean up my family's computer. Thanks to your link I got the program I was looking for. Thanks!
- aaryn, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3Thanks for the link
- jmechy, on 10/12/2007, -4/+19Also see SequioaView for a free windows alternative.
http://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/- crimson117, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7+++ for sequoiaview.
- samadam, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I have always installed sequoiaview on all new windows installs. I will try this one for mac. Very helpful stuff!
- jackcall, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2This prog look an awful lot like sequiaview, only judging by the screenshots I can't see why I would want it...
- esuomynona, on 10/12/2007, -9/+11What does it mean when the largest block is labeled "pr0n"?
- DataX, on 10/12/2007, -5/+53That you need a GF ;)
- ravenofwinter, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19That you'll never have a GF
- sundancekid503, on 10/12/2007, -5/+36means you're probably married
- pauldonnelly, on 10/12/2007, -13/+3It meands you're an indiscriminate packrat.
- sgtpinky, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13It means you're normal after all.
- ForrestGump, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5prooves like father like son
- SixTimesEight, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Looks cool. Kinda flashy for such a simple task though. If you do a lot of IT work on other people's computers, SpaceMonger v1.4 might be better suited to the task. 200Kb executable and no installer.
http://www.werkema.com/software/index.php (win32)- LawnGnome, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3i love spacemonger. its one of the programs on my usb thumb drive along with firefox and a few other programs. use it quite often.
- atmclipse, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I use an app called "WhatSize". IMO it easier to understand; no colored blocks or anything. It just tells you what is what, and allows you delete files from inside WhatSize.
http://www.id-design.com/software/whatsize/ - Spaz007, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17No where in the title or sum does it say Mac. -1
- ahawks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12But it's in the Apple category. (I agree though, it is annoying because once it's on the front page, you tend to ignore what category it came from)
- Twango, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6If I only had $20 for all the times I went to DL a proggie and it turned out to be Win-only. I could own my own beach in Tahiti.
- spentcigarettes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Amen, Twango
- tizz66, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Isn't it a bit redundant to put "Mac:" in front of every digg in the Apple category? I put it in the Apple category so everyone would know it is for Apple computers...
- heinousjay, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3'Proggie' must be one of the worst neologisms to come out of the internet. It doesn't shorten the word at all and it sounds stupid. Don't use it.
- ahawks, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10I rpefer JDiskReport. It's written in Java, so it's cross platform, and I find it easier to read.
http://www.jgoodies.com/freeware/jdiskreport/- happyhappyhappy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yes, jdiskreport is excellent and free. Hats off to Karsten Lentzsch for that and JGoodies!
- porkstacker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It’s always good to see cross-platform apps. I guess we can thank Sun for that particular application’s existence.
- flamingmb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I have had that for a while now and its awesome. Some of the stuff you find on there makes you think "why the ***** do I still have that huge movie/music/other ***** on here?". Its great for finding stuff you dont need anymore.
- mcflynnthm, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4This has been on Digg before... and dammit, the video (read: porn) blocks just keep getting mroe and more numerous.
- AZTriGuy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8"Why you think the net was born?
Porn, Porn, Porn!"
- AZTriGuy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8"Why you think the net was born?
- handeyman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Ironically it will take up more hard drive space.
- mgoddard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Almost got a digg, until I noticed it was Mac OS X 10.3 (and later) only. too bad really....
- DarkPhoen1x, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2check the previous comments, there are several windows alternatives
- Backlash, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3Much better than Search -> Advanced Search Options -> What size is it? -> Specify Size -> Greater than 10240Kb -> Search!
Im glad its mac only :p - spragg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12*Looks at movies folder comprising of 90% of screen*
...I think I may have an addiction to Bittorrent - donatj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2been using this for a while, still can't figure out where all my hard drive space went, 80 gig drive, and only 20 gigs free
- merdiesel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Spacemonger works great for me, tiny app with no install...
http://www.sixty-five.cc/sm/v1x.php- dbarefoot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I second the vote for Spacemonger--I've been very happy with it.
- rodrinn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Space monger is an excellent graphical tool
- smachin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3JDiskReport gets my vote, free, Java, cross platorm, super well writen
- alx1507, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7OmniDiskSweep FTW ^_^ (mac only)
(watches self get dugg down.) - StepJoe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Damn those electric sheep are getting fat!!
4gb of sheep - timmarhy, on 10/12/2007, -10/+4typical mac, all flash no substance and annoying to use.
- porkstacker, on 10/12/2007, -6/+0You’re not even a Mac user. Go troll somewhere else, douchebag.
- rockets, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Another mac app idea "borrowed" from a Linux FOSS app
- t3hX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It's not borrowed, it's ported over. There's a difference. We might consider the idea "borrowed" if the program was commercial.
- evgen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Of course, if you actually knew anything about treemaps you would know that the first implementation of this particular UI method was TreeViz, which did pretty much the same thing as this app does only for MacOS back in 1991.
- Scatropolis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I prefer Folder Size.
http://foldersize.sourceforge.net/- porkstacker, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Wow! At last the PC I use at work will seem useful!!! Thanks for the link!!! I Digg you, sir! It’s always bugged the ***** out of me that folder size calculation in Windows never seemed to quite work! Thanks!
- CyberGhost, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Thank You!!!!
- eean, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7For Linux there's Filelight, which is really useful as well as pretty to look at.
http://www.methylblue.com/filelight/index.php
With its circular shape, its a lot more useful then boxes. I've used one like that before, its pretty annoying.- apache2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2filelight is the *****
- Derrekito, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is what I really... Really need. I have no sense of organization and stuff thown everywhere in 3x320 gig hdds... BAH.
- vkkim, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"Qt 3.2 and KDE 3.2 are required for use of recent versions of Filelight."
- uzusan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1thanks a lot for posting that, i was looking for an application like that for Linux.
Its such an amazing app. - jessejoedotcom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I prefer Baobab, which is a Gnome app. http://www.marzocca.net/linux/baobab.html
- geoffpado, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2OmniDiskSweeper by the Omni Group (http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnidisksweeper/) is the best cleaning app I've found for OS X. It's free, except for a "delete" button which you really don't need (it's just a tad quicker than trashing it). I just used it 2 days ago to rid my drive of 10 GB of unneeded junk.
- egingras, on 10/12/2007, -26/+1AWESOMENESS WOWZORZZZZZ COOL AMAZING IPOD KILLER
- apache2, on 10/12/2007, -10/+9dude, you are a fag
- egingras, on 10/12/2007, -9/+1I am?
- theuber1337, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2Bah, mac program? Why is it an interesting program like this had to be develeped by only mac developer.. seriously, who writes programs for mac? :P
- pauldonnelly, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3Did you manage to miss the many Mac and Linux equivalents that have been mentioned in this thread?
- porkstacker, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1Troll on, *****.
- t3hX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ummm, me, and lots of other Mac developers. Although I guess you don't want an actual answer, you just want a click on the thumbs down.
- pauldonnelly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@me
Hah, "Mac and Linux." Maybe I meant "Windows and Linux." I'm just not used to Windows users being the ones without the apps. - theuber1337, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I did in fact get an equivolent, but I'm just saying the only Mac programmer in the world had to go off and make one for the Mac minority too.. Go back to Mexico, damn apple users.
- Trevahaha, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I would definitely recommend http://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/
Treemap visualizations (which these all are) can be great to visualize large datasets. Make sure you turn on squarified view!
You can also download something like: http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/treemap/
Which allows you to view other datasets in a treemap view (not just your files). - haxx4, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10Nice of the submitter to mention this is for Mac OS X.
- tizz66, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I put it in the Apple category, I'm sorry you can't read.
- Seumas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It's amazing how many times this program shows up on Digg.
- porkstacker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wow, sort of reminds me of Norton Defragmenter from the ’ol OS 5 - 9.x.x days, but only better (Yes, Symantec actually had a few pieces of good software back in the 1990s).
Even though I had seen this posted somewhere before I am not going to “Digg down” the person who posted it—not all of us have teh intarnets in front of us todos los dias, todo el dia. - orangery, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1OMG I'M CONFUSED!1 WHICH APP IS THE BEST? LOL
- rohix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1My favorite on Windows is DiskView. Check it out at http://www.diskview.com/
It integrates right into Windows Explorer, and shows disk health , file fragmentation, and charts for disk usage. See the screenshots at http://www.diskview.com/screenshots.htm - eean, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Like Colbert says, defragging is an important way to keep spyware off.
Or you can just use a real filesystem. ;)
- rohix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1My favorite on Windows is DiskView. Check it out at http://www.diskview.com/
- krakround, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3du -k . | sort -rn
- SouthP, on 10/12/2007, -7/+0Oh? A new wanker
- porkstacker, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0Sod off, you! Pastie Pommie!
- SouthP, on 10/12/2007, -7/+0Who are you *****? Someone of importance? I think not imbicile American fool.
- titlesaysitall, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What?
- DrZowie, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Ho hum...KDE has had this for going on four years...
- evgen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Not too bad, and they are only 13 years behind the Mac community...
- lordkosc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1nice find!
- Splitt3rxx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+221% of my used space is world of warcrack
- PYRO200055412, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1They stole that from WinDerStat!
- t3hX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3... who in turn "stole" it from kDirStat.
- evgen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The original treemap app was TreeViz, which was a MacOS app from back in 1991.
- MedHead, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2OverDisk!
http://users.forthnet.gr/pat/efotinis/programs/overdisk.html- Agret, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I use this one too, it's the best.
- IndyGreg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wait, that isn't KDirStat (http://kdirstat.sourceforge.net/) or FSView (native KDE feature)!
- mikae1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've used WinDirStat for win32 so I was glad when I found Disk Inventory X for OS X. I installed it a couple of weeks ago but realized that it wasn't a universal binary so I installed WhatSize instead. WhatSize has done a pretty good job but I must say that seeing graphical chunks suits me better.
- marioluigi123, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I thought it was amusing that when I clicked the link it brought me to an OS X program that says it was inspired by a Window program and when I click to go there, it says they got the idea from a Unix program.
- Twango, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2And the Unix guys saw it on an Atari 800. And they saw it on an Imsai.
- arapro, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1+++ supa application,
disk inventory just made me realize that I had like 16 gb of installers that went invisible for some reason.
love the graphic interface to,
+++ many diggs - scotsman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Great app - I just found what was eating up a few Gigs of data I can ditch - Apple Loops - which I never use. Might whack it onto a DVD for later use (if ever). Digg
- neko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2GDmap is also nice. http://gdmap.sf.net
- WiCk3D, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Amazing app
I have a 12GB samba log file :S - trinitor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2FSV
http://fsv.sourceforge.net/- shadowman99, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1FSV (File System Viewer) used to be one of my favorite tools and 3D eye candy. I can't get FSV to build under Fedora Core 4 or 5, or I would still use it to survey and prune old files and directories. If anyone has built this on a FC5 box, I'd love to get some instructions.
I keep hoping a developer will adopt this program and update with some new features (such as delete, cut, copy, paste, chmod, chown, etc)
A useful piece of software that is wasting away.
- shadowman99, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1FSV (File System Viewer) used to be one of my favorite tools and 3D eye candy. I can't get FSV to build under Fedora Core 4 or 5, or I would still use it to survey and prune old files and directories. If anyone has built this on a FC5 box, I'd love to get some instructions.
- SeanFL, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0is there any tool like that can be installed on a shared hosting account that will display what is stashed away where on a website?
- renesimone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Very cool app, works well...
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