I often find it hard to understand how i could be occupying all my hard disk space when all i have is documents and MP3′s. It seems like it would be fairly convenient if Mac provided a way for users to visually represent their hard disk usage. Thankfully where Apple doesn’t fulfill the great Mac community does. Disk Inventory X is a handy little app which will take any drive or storage location on your Mac and create a visual graph along with a file list organized by filetype and location. You’ll be surprised what you find!
The first step to making this work is to download the app. Head over to the Disk Inventory X website, and download the application from the downloads section. I recommend dragging this one to your Utilities folder in the Applications directory, since its really more of a utility then an application.
Run the app and a small box will prompt you with a list of drives, select the volume you wish to visualize and hit ‘Open Volume’ to begin. After a decent wait, you will be prompted with the data. That’s it! From there you have the option of removing files, moving them around, whatever you want. Make sure to click on the actual graph to see what the big blocks are, its kind of fun.
Here are some screenshots:
2 Responses to “Visualize your Hard Drive Usage”
nice blog u have there.. does the software have a windows version????any other software similar to that??
actually, the mac version is based off of a windows program called WinDirStat which functions exactly the same as Disk Inventory X. You can get it at: http://windirstat.info/