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There’s an amazing tool for this on Mac called DaisyDisk. It’s one of my all-time favorite Mac apps.

DaisyDisk is very polished and nice, but I'd like to add GrandPerspective [1] to the discussion - it's not as pretty, but it's free and does a very good job as well. If you don't mind spending $9.99, DaisyDisk is definitely worth it, though.

[1] https://sourceforge.net/projects/grandperspectiv/

GrandPerspective is a quite delightful disk space visualizer, and was the app I used to replace the delightful workhorse 'Disk Inventory X'[0] since Disk Inventory X was infrequently updated and would routinely become incompatible on new OS X versions (this was almost 10 years ago).

[0] - http://www.derlien.com/

DasiyDisk is insanely faster than the rest, it can scan my HD in about 30 seconds

I've never liked this nested pie chart style. I don't understand the purpose of a disk space visualizer where the area of an element on the screen doesn't really represent relative file size.

I wonder if anyone can explain what I'm missing?

"Disk Inventory X" is free, linked from the windirstat site.

Great program, however not on the appstore, and possibly does not work with latest versions of MacOS.

The homepage and download page haven't been updated, but I can confirm that Disk Inventory X works just fine for me in MacOS Monterey (12.3, Intel machine)

WinDirStat was a clone of KDirStat (KDE3-era); today there is Filelight. There's a Gnomeclone of it, but it's quite a lot worse (The sunburst only has only or two levels, which cannot be adjusted, and you can't have anything other than a 50:50 split).

I guess is this the subthread where we list other disk space analyzer tools.

I've been using TreeSize Free/Pro on Windows since as long as I can remember. Solid program, nice "old school" interface that I really enjoy using. Not open source, but worth paying for.

Yea TreeSize is great - I may have to check out this new one though

I do wonder how they compare because I always found ( I think? ) TreeSize to be much faster than WinDirStat

TreeSize is a good alternative to WizTree now that it also has MFT scanning. It's a bit slower than WizTree but has more relaxed licensing/pricing.

https://daisydiskapp.com/

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