On Sunday, August 15, 2004, at 10:36 AM, Imal Tornapart wrote:
Hi all,
I once had a program for PC that allowed visualization of the space used on
the HD. It displayed a visual graph of how much room was being used by each
file and directory on the drive, on a single screen, allowing quick
maintenance of big chunks of dead storage. Totally simple and effective!
Does anyone know of something similar for the Mac? My recently obtained PB
firewire is running low on room and I don't relish the idea of picking and
choosing from 20GB worth of unfamiliar stuff to decide what I'll keep..
failing that, what's your favorite utility for HD maintenance?
"Buying a bigger HD" ;-)
Seriously, though, this puts off the pain of deciding, and the worse pain of finding you needed something a month after you trashed it.
It's also a self correcting problem, because by the time you fill up the new drive, even bigger ones are available! See how nice they are to us in the computing industry? ;-P
You can set the Finder to calculate folder sizes; where you see this setting is dependent on which version of the OS it is. In OSX set the drive to look at list format, then go to View-> Options and check the box calculate folder sizes.
In OS 9, I don't remember where it is...
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