Bigtime hearts to Grand perspective
In the continued battle against the hard disk limit, I found another useful tool. Grand Perspective gives you nice pretty drawings of your filesystem. If you don’t have it, you should download it now.
It is a fantastic way to find large files you might not know about. For many many months, I’d been holding onto an archive of my computer from when I did an archive & install for Leopard. It was 20g! Deleting that giant chunk of files was like drinking sweet nectar straight from wild flowers. My computer stopped overheating, I haven’t seen a kernal panic since, AND it runs faster.
The X Lab has been pretty helpful with some basic tips on freeing up hard disk space. They recommend that you have at least 5 gigs free on your mac. I am constantly pushing that limit. I regularly see the “Your hard disk is almost full” message, and I am no stranger to the eclipse “error saving message” due to lack of space left on my device.
I’ve taken more steps to permanently solve this problem by buying a Drobo. More on that later.
I hope that with your Drobo you wont get so many crashes!
January 6th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
I love this kinds of software. In a few minutes it can visualize my entire harddrive and tell me how to get rid of those 8gigs worth of files hidden in several layers of subfolders. Thanks!
January 7th, 2009 at 2:28 am
@Dennis me too! I’m really excited about the thing
@Ed I’m happy to share. I’m constantly battling against my hard disk limit and I hope to help others who have the same problems.
January 7th, 2009 at 4:57 am
Thanks so much Karen! This helped me as well!
January 8th, 2009 at 9:43 am
This is super cool! Thanks for sharing. I found some old stuff on my computer that I never use anymore.
January 26th, 2009 at 10:34 pm