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MacFocus Freeware Pick: Picture your Hard Drive

By Jordan Drake ⋅ May 5, 2008 ⋅  Email This Post ⋅  Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment

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If you’re a laptop user like me, the battle to keep from filling up your hard drive is a constant struggle. My somewhat roomy 160gb MacBook Pro hard drive seems to fill up quite frequently and its often hard to figure out why. In the past, I would start with the root directory, pull up file sizes on all the top folders, and drill down to delete the largest files/folders that I don’t want. Painful.

Grand Perspective is an amazingly simple application, with huge headache avoiding benefits. Simply point the program at an entire hard drive or directory, and it produces a visual representation of what is filling up the drive. You can hover your mouse over any of the sections and see what files are represented and how much space they fill up. If you want to clear our some serious hard drive space, then add Grand Perspective to your dock.

Software Name: Grand Perspective
Created by: Erwin Bonsma - Website
Download here
Screenshots: 1 - 2 - 3

Tags: freeware, hard drive