WhatSize: A little app that shows you the sizes of whatever ...

[MacBytes]

Category: 3rd Party Software
Link: WhatSize: A little app that shows you the sizes of whatever files and folders you choose, includes hidden files too. (http://www.id-design.com/Software/WhatSize/index.html)

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Approved by arn

[arn]

At first I thought... "finder can do that"

but it does appear to be much faster than finder in calculating sizes.

arn

[Mr.Hey]

excellent app. its not just speed but how it displays the info.

[simX]

Ummmm.... is this any different from OmniDiskSweeper (http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnidisksweeper/), besides the fact that ODS has been out for 3 years come this Thursday?

[alset]

This tool is sorta like using "ls -l" in the Terminal. I love it. WhatSize helped me clean up about 50 gigs of wasted space, last week.

Dan

[mainstreetmark]

Originally posted by alset
This tool is sorta like using "ls -l" in the Terminal. I love it. WhatSize helped me clean up about 50 gigs of wasted space, last week.

Dan

Try "du -hs *"

Disk Usage: Summarize, for Humans, everything.

[Mal]

The distinct advantage of this over Omni DiskSweeper is that this is free. However, this doesn't appear to sort by size, so if you would rather see the data that way, ODS would be much better for you.

JW

[Mal]

Nevermind, I didn't wait long enough. This does appear to work much better than ODS.

JW

[kettle]

Originally posted by mainstreetmark
Try "du -hs *"

Thanks, I really like that one, 've been trying it in different directories, it's just really straight forwardly useful.
:)

[MrMacMan]

Yay.

Looks cool...

Trying now...

:)