GrandPerspective 4+
visualises disk usage
Erwin Bonsma
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- £2.99
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Description
GrandPerspective is a small utility application that graphically shows the disk usage within a file system. It can help you to manage your disk, as you can easily spot which files and folders take up the most space.
Disk usage is visualised using tree maps. Each file is shown as a rectangle with an area proportional to the file's size. Files in the same folder appear together.
Configurable display of views:
• Color files by their: name, extension, file type, parent folder, top folder, level in the folder hierarchy, creation time, modification time, or last access time
• Choice of color palettes
• Configurable mapping by file type
• Optionally view package contents
• Optionally view the entire volume
Convenient navigation of views:
• Navigate using mouse or keyboard
• Quickly search for files by name
• Traverse up and down the folder hierarchy
• Select files and folders in the view
• Preview files using Quick Look
• Reveal files and folders in Finder
• Delete files and folders from the view
Filter files and folders:
• Construct filter tests based an item's name, path, size, file type, hard-link status, and package status
• Filters and filter tests are automatically stored in the user preferences
Use these filters to:
• Mask files in the view
• Filter files from the view
• Exclude files and folders when scanning a disk
Multiple view support:
• Refresh or rescan a view to compare results before and after clean-up
• Twin or duplicate a view for different displays of the same data
Support for hard-linked files and folders:
• Analyse Time Machine back-ups
Save results of disk scanning operations:
• Save, reload and view again at any time
• Export scan results as image or text
Snappy and responsive GUI:
• Optimized drawing of views
• Drawing and scanning are carried out in background threads
• Animated changes to view content
Furthermore:
• Configurable user preferences
• Small memory and disk footprint
• Extensive help documentation
What’s New
Version 3.4.2
Main changes:
• Faster scanning
• Configurable Display Focus
• Revamped toolbar
Minor improvements:
• Minor updates to help documentation
• Revised various default preference settings
• Sort palettes in Display panel pop-up by palette size
Fixes:
• Fixed: Can select default filter when none is configured
• Fixed: Do not animate zoom when showing entire volume
• Fixed: Tree refresh adds empty directories to tree
• Fixed: Tree monitor cannot update flags during save of scan data
• Fixed: Refreshed trees contain invalid parent pointers
• Fixed: Can highlight files inside packages when package contents are hidden
Ratings and Reviews
Beautifully intuitive app for de-cluttering your Mac
I have used this app to help de-clutter many client’s Mac hard disks. I am so pleased it is now on the app store. It is truly such a wonderfully immediate and visual way to see precisely what is taking up space on your hard disks. Mac users are really lucky to have this app available as there is nothing quite as good for Windows. Really, I have tried a few.
I like the introduction of the screen that allows you to rerun previous scans. Now I can regularly manage my Mac’s free space. This app is a gem and should be one of the editor’s picks.
Simple way of decluttering and identifying large file
I've tried other ways of tidying up the hard drive and this is the easiest way to quickly identify large files.
It works very quickly taking just moments before you see a mosaic like the screen shots. If you hover over the square the location comes up on the bottom left, if needed you can also open the file in finder.
A great tool and great value at just under £1.
clearly better than the competition (in my opinion)
It is a precise application. What I like about it the most is, that it is not at all intrusive. It just does the job accurately.
App Privacy
The developer, Erwin Bonsma, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Provider
- Erwin Bonsma
- Size
- 2.4 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
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- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Turkish
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2005-2023 Erwin Bonsma
- Price
- £2.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.