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J&P Group | J&P InfoSol | Applications | Disk Utilities
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Comments |
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| Good Overview of Large Files |
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WhatSize has most flexibility |
| See/Find What Changes Over Time |
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| 1 I.e. among the applications listed here. | ||
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/system_disk_utilities/
| Application | price from |
Version/Release Info | Comments | ||
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Date* |
Size |
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| Baseline | $20.00 | v1.4.2 | 20081124 (mod) | 8.6MB | More info: mildmanneredindustries.com/baseline. MW review v1.4.2 Dec 08, rating 4/5 |
| GrandPerspective | Free | v1.0 | 20081222 (mod) | 1.3MB | open-source; only a visual graphical representation and one that neither is that easy to interpret nor that useful (as far as seen/understood so far) – Not that useful (MW rating: 4/5, v0.93 - MacWorld's Byte breakdown Apr'06.) |
| OmniDiskSweeper | Free(1) |
v1.7 | 20090224 (mod) | 6.3MB | (1) Free since v1.7 Feb 2009 (was $15 prior) + Decent util (considering it's now Free) to get a good overview of large folders and files. – No means to sort other than default (decending order size of folders/files). More info: omnigroup.com/applications/omnidisksweeper. (MW rating: 3.5/5, v1.5 - MacWorld's Byte breakdown Apr'06; NOTE: This rating was for the for-pay version.) |
| WhatSize | $12.99 | v(10.)4.5.1 | 20090317 (mod) | 6.4MB | More info: id-design.com/software/whatsize. (MW rating: 4/5, v10.3.9 (current per Apr09 is v(10.)4.5.1) - MacWorld's Byte breakdown Apr'06.) |
The Top Five Mac Hard Drive, Diagnostic, and Repair Utilities, Feb 23, 2007 - http://www.peachpit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=693649
Hyperbolic Software Tidy Up! ($39) http://www.hyperbolicsoftware.com/TidyUp.html
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/system_disk_utilities/tidyup.html
Comparing 1Password - being evaluated - to Web Confidential - used for many years.
Mac OS X Finder |
Baseline | OmdiDiskSweeper | WhatSize | Comments | |
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| Product Info | Apple | baseline | omnidisksweeper | whatsize | |
| Developer | Apple | mildmanneredindustries | omnigroup | id-design.com | |
| Pricing | incl in OS | $20 |
Free |
$12.99 |
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| General comments | ### | Rather simple tool, only lists size (but still better than Finder (10.5)), no Find Duplicates, ... |
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| R&D | |||||
| Version | 10.5.8 | 1.4.2 | 1.7 | 10.4.5.1 (i) | (i) = as per About information inside application (m) = Modified time stamp as per Info (Command-I) for installed application. |
| Released | ~2009 (10.5.8) |
2009-11-24 (m) | 2009-02-24 (m) | 2009-03-17 (m) | |
| since today | ~5 months ago | ~ 2 months ago | ~ 1 month ago | (This review per Fri 2009-04-17) | |
| R&D | ? | ? | ? | ? | |
| Application size | ? | 8.6 MB | 6.3 MB | 6.4 MB | |
| General Use | |||||
| Primarily how using | From within browser. (Application isn't even visible in list of open applications. Nice!) |
Application itself. | 1P: adds a button - and toolbar - in web browsers and this is how accessing most commonly used features. WC: from the application itself, limited integration with web browsers. |
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| Starting | 3 sec* | 10 sec* | 1Password starts significantly faster. *) Times only to be seen relatively; on a specific Mac (Mini), with lots of applications running. |
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Baseline | OmdiDiskSweeper | WhatSize | Comments | |
| # Views | 4 | 4 |
1 | 5 |
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| names | 1:As Icons (Cmd-1) 2:As List (Cmd-2) 3:As Columns (Cmd-3) 4:As Cover Flow (Cmd-4) |
1:List View (Cmd-1) 2:Columns View (Cmd-2) 3:Tree Map (Cmd-3) 4:Duplicates (Cmd-4) |
n/a | 1:Browser View (Cmd-1) 2:Outline View (Cmd-2) 3:Table View (Cmd-3) 4:BarChart View (Cmd-4) 5:PieChart View (Cmd-5) |
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| List View, Outline View | Yes (Cmd-2) | Yes (Cmd-1) |
No | Yes (Cmd-2) | |
| Table View | No | No | No | Yes (Cmd-3) (1) | (1) Including pre-defined searches |
| Columns View | Yes (Cmd-3) | Yes (Cmd-2) | Yes | Yes (Cmd-1) | |
| Cover Flow View | Yes (Cmd-4) | No | No | No | |
| Tree Map | No | Yes (Cmd-3) (1) | No | No | (1) Similar to GrandPerspective's (not in this table) view. |
| BarChart View | No | No | No | Yes (Cmd-4) | |
| PieChart View | No | No | No | Yes (Cmd-5) | |
| Duplicates View | No | Yes (Cmd-4) | No | No | |
Find duplicates |
No | Yes (but quite slow) |
No | No | |
| Total space occupied by duplicates | n/a | No | n/a | n/a | |
| Delocalization | No | No | No | Yes (Cmd-6) | |
Baselines, save state to see changes over time |
No | Yes | No | No | Can be quite useful when trying to find out what's eating space over time (like memory leaking applications) |
