Disk Inventory X VS GrandPerspective

Disk Inventory X Reviews

1. Stan    

   Founder at SaaSHub | about 4 years ago
   Simple and does the job

   I've been using Disk Inventory X for many years now. It's very convenient when you want to clean up your mac's hard drive.

   👍 Pros:    Free|Super simple

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Disk Inventory X mentions (7)

• I have deleted pretty much everything off of my Macbook and yet it says there is 94.26 GB of “Other Volumes” taking up space that I can’t access. Does anyone know how to fix?

  Try this, Disk Inventory X: http://derlien.com/. Source: over 1 year ago

• So Im having trouble with storage. I have an external drive but I noticed my M1 iMac with 256GB of storage was getting pretty full. Upon further investigation it seems as though my user folder is 202GB, yet when I open up the subfolders in my user folder they don't add up. Any ideas?

  For checking which files are large (like windirstat) I'd recommend Disk Inventory X: https://derlien.com/. Source: almost 2 years ago

• How to run a report of all files in a volume/folder by file type?

  Your comment just reminded me of Disk Inventory X (http://derlien.com) - it might do the trick? Source: almost 2 years ago

• Share your greatest free tools

  WinDirStat (Windows) or Disk Inventory X (Mac) - These are similar to Space Sniffer. Helpful for getting a visual overview of your disk usage, and cleaning up the disk. Source: about 2 years ago

• Out of local storage -- split between iCloud and local files -- "Documents" taking up more space than capacity of drive. How do I clear space, when I can't even identify the files?

  Not so beautiful but good working free alternative for Daisy Disk is Disk Inventory X. Source: about 2 years ago

GrandPerspective mentions (117)

• MacBook storage says it’s more than it should be.

  Any of the following should help with identifying where the mystery space lives: DaisyDisk, GrandPerspective, or OmniDiskSweeper. Source: 5 months ago

• Something unknown in "Application" takes almost 150G from my Macintosh HD. And I cannot find what it is.

  I recommend the free graphical utility GrandPerspective to find out what is taking space and take action. Source: 5 months ago

• Mac system data over 100gb. Can’t find it anywhere!!

  Try https://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/ … just a simple app to find large files and folders. Source: 5 months ago

• Tips for troubleshooting file space usage

  GrandPerspective - this app is free to download. The app is paid in the Mac App Store for what is essentially donation. It breaks down your disk usage graphically. This is the first step to cleaning your drive. Source: 9 months ago

• Why do i got 297.11 gb of system data??? and how do I fix this? Already tried Clean my Mac..

  Download the free and excellent GrandPerspective app and scan your disk, it will show you in a nested grahical form what is taking space. Maybe it's a sleep image, maybe it's on-disk TM backups cos you haven't connected your TM disk in a while, maybe it's some crazy big cache... GP will let you know so you can fix it. Source: 10 months ago