GrandPerspective Reviews

SDelete Reviews

GrandPerspective mentions (118)

• WinDirStat – Windows Directory Statistics

  For my MacOS friends, it might be a little outdated but I prefer GrandPerspective: https://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/. - Source: Hacker News / 14 days ago

• 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: 6 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: 6 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: 6 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: 11 months ago

SDelete mentions (25)

• Keep your files safe. What can happen if you throw away a defective hard drive?

  What lessons can we take away from my story? They are, in fact, quite simple and obvious: merely deleting files and quick formatting is usually not enough when disposing of or selling hard drives. For more assurance, it’s better to perform a full format (in modern operating systems, of course). And for the truly paranoid, there’s the good old console utility SDelete from the Sysinternals suite or a tool named... - Source: dev.to / 7 months ago

• Hyper V VM full disk, won’t boot

  I assume you were using a dynamically expanding disk - if so just note it won't dynamically contract just by deleting files. To shrink the drive you will likely need to run sdelete -z on the drive inside the VM to clear the free space, then edit and compact the VHDX. You will need to be able to boot the VM to run sdelete though so you'll need to temporarily move other files off the drive, or move the VM files to... Source: 12 months ago

• Does formatting a drive remove bitlocker encryption from formatted data?

  You can always download sdelete https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/sdelete and do an overwrite pass just to be safe. It'll take a while but you can do other things while it's running. Source: about 1 year ago

• Bitwarden backups

  My understanding is that it doesn't completely solve it. I don't have time to dig up an authoritative source for this claim — hopefully this superuser comment will suffice. I believe that you can achieve something close to a secure erase by filling up your SSD to 100% capacity with data before deleting; the utility sdelete supposedly does this when using the -c option. Source: about 1 year ago

• Wiping HDD in windows. Which program to use?

  Check out sdelete from the MS sysinternals utilities suite: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/sdelete. Source: over 1 year ago