DiskWave is a free disk usage utility for Mac OS X. It helps you determine what files and folders consume most of your disk space.
DiskWave is a free disk usage utility for Mac OS X. It helps you determine what files and folders consume most of your disk space. DiskWave is a free disk usage utility for Mac OS X. It helps you determine what files and folders consume most of your disk space. The program scans your hard drive to compute the size of all.
Does DiskWave support TimeMachine drives?
Yes and no.
Diskwave For Mac Mini
Contrary to other disk usage utilities, DiskWave would not crash if the scan is performed on a TimeMachine drive.
However, at the moment, DiskWave has little support for the folders' hard links that are used by time machine. DiskWave computes the size of identical folders on TimeMachine volumes multiple times, which is slow and inefficient. Moreover, since the size of a folder is computed as the sum of all its children, the reported size of the top level folder could be larger than it really is. In extreme cases, the top level folder may appear to be larger than the physical size of the drive that contains it!
Delivers about 35 times cleaner audio quality (116dB SNR) than most motherboard audio (85dB SNR) The noise on Xonar DX audio card is only 1/35 (2.8%) of the noise level from most motherboard onboard audio. In addition, Xonar DX also produces as little as 1/32 (-105dB) of the total harmonics distortion from motherboard audio does (-75dB). The Xonar U3 is a pocket-sized, portable USB audio card with complete support for a wide variety of Dolby Technologies for your Hi-Fi enjoyments. For realistic 3D audio effects. Enjoy up to 128 different sound effects played simultaneously for a realistic 3D experience! The ASUS Xonar SE delivers 5.1-channel, 192kHz/24-bit Hi-Res audio with a 116dB signal-to-noise ratio and built-in 300ohm headphone amplifier providing rich, immersive sound with punchy, defined bass. Connect front panel audio to the onboard header for easy access. Asus xonar u3 mac.
How do I display invisible files?
Go to 'Preferences' (apple+coma) and select the 'Show invisible files' option.
What do the colors mean?
The text color depends on the size of the item:
- Green: for small items of less than 1MB
- Purple: for average items between 1MB and 1GB
- Red: for large items over 1GB
Will DiskWave be available on the App Store?
No, at least not in the near future and probably never.
If I were to make DiskWave available on the app store, I would have to pay a yearly fee of 100USD, which is a lot more than what this website costs. As a consequence I would probably have to charge a little for the application.
Some of the features I plan to develop for DiskWave will not respect the strict restrictions Apple imposes on the App Store developer program. In particular, I would like to offer the ability to scan the drive using elevated privileges, which is not allowed (see item 2.27 in Mac App Store Guidelines
Addendum: As of November 2011, Apple has announced their intention to force developpers to use the newly available sandbox mode for all applications distributed on the App Store by March 2012. Sandboxing by itself is not an issue, but Apple's planned implementation is. At the moment, Apple does not make available any entitlements (i.e. permissions to go outside the sandbox) that covers access the the filesystem on a global basis. Entitlements only exist for files explicitely accessed via open/save dialogs or in some special folders. Unless this policy is revised, all disk size utilities will disappear from the App Store by 2012.
What is this system profile report?
The information reported by the system profile is completely anonymous and cannot identify either an individual machine or a user. Downloads for mac.
If you provide your consent, DiskWave will transmit the following information about your system:
- Mac OS X version.
- DiskWave version.
- Mac model.
- CPU data (type, subtype, speed, 64-bit compatibility and number of cores).
- Amount of installed RAM.
- User's preferred language.
We've all seen it, the dreaded 'Your Startup Disk is Almost Full' Warning in OS X, which means you have a full hard drive. When that happens there is always the scrambling which we all do, to try and make some more space, or find out what files are our biggest Disk Space Hogs.
This is not always an easy task, sometimes we may delete many user files only to find that it has made little difference on the full hard drive. This is usually because some application has been caching away files in a library and the average user has no idea where to go to find it.
Today we are listing the Top 3 Free Utilities to help you clean up your full hard drive.
1: OmniDiskSweeper – sweep your full hard drive
Probably one of the the granddaddy of disk sweeping tools, Omni Disk Sweeper was built by the OmniGroup years ago as a paid for utility, but it has now been released as a Free application.
This app scans the drive of your choice and then displays the contents of the drive in a finder like window with the size of each directory (and all of their contents) and files so that you can track down the Disk Hogging Files you are searching for.
2: Disk Inventory X – inventory your full hard drive
Disk Inventory X is a disk usage utility for Mac OS X 10.3 (and later). It shows the sizes of files and folders in a special graphical way called 'treemaps'. If you've ever wondered where all your disk space has gone, Disk Inventory X will help you to answer this question.
3: DiskWave – wave bye bye to your full hard drive
DiskWave scans your hard drive to compute the size of all folders and sub folders. The results are stored in memory, which allows faster navigation than the built-in 'compute all sizes' option in the Finder. You can easily identify useless directories and delete them.
Diskwave For Macbook
And here is a Video Tutorial that covers these three options as well:
–Update–
4: a Grand Perspective of your Full Hard Drive
Diskwave For Macular Degeneration
I just found another utility which also helps you find the largest files on your computer called GrandPerspective. So give it a whirl and see if it works for you as it seems to be quite similar to Disk Inventory X
However, at the moment, DiskWave has little support for the folders' hard links that are used by time machine. DiskWave computes the size of identical folders on TimeMachine volumes multiple times, which is slow and inefficient. Moreover, since the size of a folder is computed as the sum of all its children, the reported size of the top level folder could be larger than it really is. In extreme cases, the top level folder may appear to be larger than the physical size of the drive that contains it!
Delivers about 35 times cleaner audio quality (116dB SNR) than most motherboard audio (85dB SNR) The noise on Xonar DX audio card is only 1/35 (2.8%) of the noise level from most motherboard onboard audio. In addition, Xonar DX also produces as little as 1/32 (-105dB) of the total harmonics distortion from motherboard audio does (-75dB). The Xonar U3 is a pocket-sized, portable USB audio card with complete support for a wide variety of Dolby Technologies for your Hi-Fi enjoyments. For realistic 3D audio effects. Enjoy up to 128 different sound effects played simultaneously for a realistic 3D experience! The ASUS Xonar SE delivers 5.1-channel, 192kHz/24-bit Hi-Res audio with a 116dB signal-to-noise ratio and built-in 300ohm headphone amplifier providing rich, immersive sound with punchy, defined bass. Connect front panel audio to the onboard header for easy access. Asus xonar u3 mac.
How do I display invisible files?
Go to 'Preferences' (apple+coma) and select the 'Show invisible files' option.
What do the colors mean?
The text color depends on the size of the item:
- Green: for small items of less than 1MB
- Purple: for average items between 1MB and 1GB
- Red: for large items over 1GB
Will DiskWave be available on the App Store?
No, at least not in the near future and probably never.
If I were to make DiskWave available on the app store, I would have to pay a yearly fee of 100USD, which is a lot more than what this website costs. As a consequence I would probably have to charge a little for the application.
Some of the features I plan to develop for DiskWave will not respect the strict restrictions Apple imposes on the App Store developer program. In particular, I would like to offer the ability to scan the drive using elevated privileges, which is not allowed (see item 2.27 in Mac App Store Guidelines
Addendum: As of November 2011, Apple has announced their intention to force developpers to use the newly available sandbox mode for all applications distributed on the App Store by March 2012. Sandboxing by itself is not an issue, but Apple's planned implementation is. At the moment, Apple does not make available any entitlements (i.e. permissions to go outside the sandbox) that covers access the the filesystem on a global basis. Entitlements only exist for files explicitely accessed via open/save dialogs or in some special folders. Unless this policy is revised, all disk size utilities will disappear from the App Store by 2012.
What is this system profile report?
The information reported by the system profile is completely anonymous and cannot identify either an individual machine or a user. Downloads for mac.
If you provide your consent, DiskWave will transmit the following information about your system:
- Mac OS X version.
- DiskWave version.
- Mac model.
- CPU data (type, subtype, speed, 64-bit compatibility and number of cores).
- Amount of installed RAM.
- User's preferred language.
We've all seen it, the dreaded 'Your Startup Disk is Almost Full' Warning in OS X, which means you have a full hard drive. When that happens there is always the scrambling which we all do, to try and make some more space, or find out what files are our biggest Disk Space Hogs.
This is not always an easy task, sometimes we may delete many user files only to find that it has made little difference on the full hard drive. This is usually because some application has been caching away files in a library and the average user has no idea where to go to find it.
Today we are listing the Top 3 Free Utilities to help you clean up your full hard drive.
1: OmniDiskSweeper – sweep your full hard drive
Probably one of the the granddaddy of disk sweeping tools, Omni Disk Sweeper was built by the OmniGroup years ago as a paid for utility, but it has now been released as a Free application.
This app scans the drive of your choice and then displays the contents of the drive in a finder like window with the size of each directory (and all of their contents) and files so that you can track down the Disk Hogging Files you are searching for.
2: Disk Inventory X – inventory your full hard drive
Disk Inventory X is a disk usage utility for Mac OS X 10.3 (and later). It shows the sizes of files and folders in a special graphical way called 'treemaps'. If you've ever wondered where all your disk space has gone, Disk Inventory X will help you to answer this question.
3: DiskWave – wave bye bye to your full hard drive
DiskWave scans your hard drive to compute the size of all folders and sub folders. The results are stored in memory, which allows faster navigation than the built-in 'compute all sizes' option in the Finder. You can easily identify useless directories and delete them.
Diskwave For Macbook
And here is a Video Tutorial that covers these three options as well:
–Update–
4: a Grand Perspective of your Full Hard Drive
Diskwave For Macular Degeneration
I just found another utility which also helps you find the largest files on your computer called GrandPerspective. So give it a whirl and see if it works for you as it seems to be quite similar to Disk Inventory X
