GrandPerspective: a visual file space viewer for Mac

I take a lot of photos, take some occasional movies, have a bunch of music, download a lot of apps, buy a lot of PDF books and generally just eat up my hard drive space constantly. Every once in a while I get down to, like, 30M free and suddenly remember to move all my photos and videos off to my external storage. Sometimes, I can’t figure out where all the space is being used though.

Yesterday I wondered (twittered) whether there was a visual disk viewer that would show me where all my space was being held hostage. It turns out there is a great tool for Mac called GrandPerspective.

GrandPerspective graphical view of my disk usage
That giant yellow/green block in the middle? That's my Windows 7 virtual machine. Keep. (grumble, grumble)

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