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Disk Management App 'DaisyDisk' Gets Major Overhaul With Faster Scanning Speeds, New Look

This is by far the best disk space management program available, and well worth the price against free alternatives. The scanning speed improvement is phenomenal!!! Well done Daisy Disk team!!!
 
LV426 said:
Thanks, mw360 and Oleg K. That was easy. I didn't want to just click the button without knowing exactly what it did. Could have been a request for an upgrade fee, turning off disk encryption for all I knew. IMHO, something like "Access Disk" would have been clearer.
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In modern UI design, hidden UI elements and cryptic symbols and icons are the lay of the land. Why? No sane person can say. It's just a mad trend that hopefully will die in the near future...
 
75th Trombone said:
Hey, thanks for the great reply. I guess this may come down to a nerds-versus-mass-market issue. Or maybe it's just me. Moving the mouse over the treemap display, seeing the borders pop up, and watching the path segments in the status bar change (or stay the same) is, to me, an incredibly natural and fast way of getting the sense of place you refer to. But I can see how non-nerds might find it overwhelming or nonsensical. Regular People Hate the File Hierarchy!™ may enter into it, too.

So yeah, thank you for the nicest and most polite taking-down-a-peg I can remember getting! :) I really should remember that different things actually are better for different people.
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Downloaded GrandPerspective and ran it to scan the disk and while scanning for a while it crashed hard. Found you can only run it on one root folder at time. oh joy. As someone that's been around since the Apple IIc, I found it pretty clunky. Not tried DaisyDisk but seems worth ten bucks if you need it.
 
Loving version 4 especially gratis (free). You can generate your own serial for this application for Personal, Family, Corporate, Media and Press, Friend and Apple Employee :) There is always a way.
 
I use OmniDiskSweeper (free) to perform similar tasks. It's very stable and has a decent UI. It doesn't have a fancy UI like DaisyDisk does, just a list view, but I don't see how the DaisyDisk UI helps. The list view does the job well, if not better.
 
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This is great. I'd like to replace a couple lesser apps I use for this purpose with this one which I've had an eye on for quite a while now. Fingers crossed! :)
 
Anyone else here still using DaisyDisk?

I received an email from them about a sale, but want to make sure it's not malware and it has good feedback.
 
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