Best Mac Utility For Large File Management

HP Disk Storage Format Utility. While the other software on this list focus specifically on external hard drive formatting, the HP Disk Storage Formatter specializes in USB devices such as flash drives. This ultra simple formatting utility has just a few options, but it is effective and has received some great reviews.

I use the Status Bar (View–>Show Status Bar) at the bottom of my Finder windows to keep track of the free space available on my startup disk. Then, when I notice that free space on my startup disk is 25% or less, I begin looking for large files I can archive (copy to a different disk and then delete) or delete outright. There are many ways to find huge files You can search for files larger than X megabytes; you can sort items in Finder windows by size; or you can choose Apple Menu > About This Mac, click the Storage tab, and then click the Manage button to delete large files by category (Apps, Documents, iBooks, iOS Files, Mail, etc.). Those are all fine ways to find humongous files, and they’re all free. So, use them if you like. But (there’s always a “but”), I always use one of two free apps to hunt down huge files fast.

Both have been around for years, and both hunt down those large files faster and easier (at least in my humble opinion) than the aforementioned techniques. OmniDiskSweeper can find huge files fast The first free app is from the Omni Group, which displays your files in a column browser that looks like the Finder’s Column view. The difference is that in OmniDiskSweeper the columns are always sorted by size with the largest item on top. Now, just click any folder in any column to sort its contents by size.

I usually start with my Home and Applications folders, which are the two most likely places I’ll find huge files I can either delete with a single click, or archive to another disk. OmniDiskSweeper looks (and works) a lot like a Finder window in Column view (sorted by size). Can find huge files fast, too OmniDiskSweeper is text-oriented, displaying traditional file and folder names and sizes as text. The other large file finding app, from Erwin Bonsma, is more visual. Rather than displaying a list of folders and files, it instead displays colored squares and rectangles of varying sizes and shapes with no text at all. Each block represents a file; similar files are represented using similar colors.

The result is like a busy Mondrian painting on your screen. GrandPerspective is like a Mondrian painting, with bigger blocks representing bigger files and related content represented by the same (or similar) color.

Click any block to see its size and location on your disk. Then, right- or Control-click the block to reveal it in the Finder, delete it immediately, open it, or use Quick Look to see its contents.

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