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GrandPerspective - 0.9.13.1

utility that graphically displays disk usage

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Current Version:	0.9.13.1
Release Date:	2008-08-29
License:	Freeware
Downloads (this version):	693
Downloads (all versions):	16,487

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Product Description:

GrandPerspective is a small utility application for Mac OS X that graphically shows the disk usage within a file system. It can help you to manage your disk, as you can easily spot which files and folders take up the most space. It uses a so called tree map for visualisation. Each file is shown as a rectangle with an area proportional to the file's size. Files in the same folder appear together, but their placement is otherwise arbitrary.

What's new in this version:

Fixed "silly typo" bug that caused crashes when scanning.
Failures of FSRefMakePath do not abort scanning anymore, but are handled gracefully instead.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Mac OS X 10.3.9
Mac OS X 10.3

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Nice replacement for Disk Inventory X - Version: 0.9.12.1, 6/16/2008 08:01AM PST

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Mike Dustan

I used Disk Inventory X for years to do exactly what this application does. I figured it would only be a matter of time before DIX broke with the latest OS, since it appears to be no longer in development. To DIX's credit it has worked flawlessly with every system from Jaguar to Leopard. GrandPerspective appears to be a worthy successor, with a few more useful features and a chance that user feedback and requests may actually make into the application.

Nice work!

Excellent Application - Version: 0.9.11, 3/19/2008 09:38PM PST

charocco_dotmac

What a helpful little application this is for providing a quick yet detailed overview of files, folders and entire drives if necessary. The immediate info feedback in the 'focus' menu and instant 'reveal' command (which opens the highlighted file) make tidying up easy. Full marks for a first class effort. Love your palette names too.

Wow. Simple, but useful. - Version: 0.9.10, 2/1/2008 12:00AM PST

Tscheezy

I have been casually looking for a volume mapping utility like this. It allowed me to look at my iTunes library in about 10 seconds and at a glance I found a pile of .aiff files that were not showing up in the library (for some reason) but were hogging a pile of drive space. I was able to have this nifty utility pop them up in the finder where I could either delete them or pop them back into iTunes to convert to MP3. I tossed a bunch of other files I would have never noticed like Garage Band loop tapes (I don't use GB). After about a beer's worth of snooping I had regained 15gb of drive space back. ME LIKEE!