GrandPerspective

I found my MBP has less than 10GB left these few days. Though I produced quite a lot of photos recently, but the photos are not in RAW. It has no reason that such little space left as I remember it still has 20GB~ last time when I checked.

Then I tried GrandPerspective, it takes few minutes to analyze my hard drive and show the distribution by file type in different color. I pointed the mouse point onto each big partition and found there’s a hidden VM in my drive which is 8.37GB! And also a swap file for hibernation left in /private/var/vm which is 4GB same as the size of the total memory.

By doing this, I’ve been free up 12GB of space!!! What a great tool!

One Comment (+add yours?)

  1. Markus Zeller
    May 04, 2009 @ 06:46:16

    Yes, it helped me, too finding files to kill which I did not remember where to find them.

    Reply

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