#grand perspective

[webdesignfreelance]

Fix Mac os eating missing hard disk space.

To see all space on the mac use terminal with the sudo command to open GrandPerspective, else it will only show the files it is allowed to read.

[mactipaday]

Holy Cannoli Batman! Where Has All My Disk Space Gone?

At least in my personal experience, the amount of free disk space that you have has follows two metaphysical impossibilities:

You need a minimum of 110%. Radical strategies such as doubling your disk space only momentary relief. 

Even once you have deleted the photos of people and places that you don't remember and given up the delusion that you were ever going to listen to your copy of Saturday Night Fever's soundtrack ever again, you simply imagine where your disk space has gone. 

This leaves you with the unpleasant task of deleteing the files that you don't even know about. 

I happen to be a big fan of Grand Perspective. Lifehacker has a good posting about it. But I think disk cleaning utilities are like breakfast cereals. It is easy to tell when you have a terrible one but no reason to expect that other people will like the same cereal. It's all a matter of taste.

So, while I was looking for links to Grand Perspective, I found this posting about OmniDiskSweeper. I've not tried it out, but I think that Lifehacker has fairly high standards for its postings so I thought I would mention OmniDiskSweeper. 

While I love Grand Perspective, it has a UI that will discourage some people. It seems like OmniDiskSweeper may help those people.

PS: In case you're wondering, I'm looking at Mac OS X disk space because I'm trying to save the data from my MacBook Pro's disk