![]() Thanks to DaisyDisk for providing a copy of their app for this feature. Thankfully, I’ve got some tricks up my sleeve. It even gives you the option to Tweet about your newfound drive space.which is odd but shows they're at least trying to inject some fun into what can be a tedious chore.Īlas, the Photo Library lives another day, growing by dribs and drabs. The deletion process is also thoughtful - giving you a 5-second delay before deleting the files forever (no lingering in the Trash here!). In the end, I settle for deleting a few old movies (that I can preview right from the app, that’s a nice touch). I could weed out some of the duplicate and unneeded photos…but editing a 45,000 item library would be a full time job and wouldn't really guarantee that the Photo Library was appreciably smaller. Sticking the library on a standard USB 2.0 external hard drive would make it perform even slower than it already does. I recommend buying the website version so you won’t run into sandboxing limitations with the Mac App Store.But deleting fifteen+ years of personal photos isn’t an option. I wouldn’t say that the act of freeing up space is “pleasant”, but there’s a certain satisfaction in clicking through DaisyDisk’s flower map and seeing how many GBs you can reclaim from your Mac.ĭaisyDisk is $9.99 and there’s a trial available. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you’re using a Mac every day, you’re inevitably going to end up with a lot of stuff that you don’t need to keep on your computer, and DaisyDisk provides an informative and intuitive visualization of files and folders through colored blocks of “space” that you’ve accumulated. There are other changes in DaisyDisk 3, but, for me, what matters is that the app still works reliably on OS X and hasn’t lost its usefulness over the years. Scanning a single folder usually takes a couple of seconds and the app can automatically return to your previous location, showing refreshed contents of a folder. This is perfect if you, say, need to clean up the Downloads or Desktop folders (you know you do) but don’t want to wait for those extra 40 seconds to scan your Mac HD again. The best change of DaisyDisk 3 is the ⌘R shortcut, which allows you to quickly rescan a folder without rescanning the entire disk. The way you interact with the app has remained the same across version 2.0 and 3.0: you click on colored folders, which animate and expand to reveal files and sub-folders, and you can collect items to delete in the tray at the bottom or delete items individually. When it’s done scanning, DaisyDisk will display a notification through the native Notification Center – another new feature of 3.0. DaisyDisk has always been pretty fast in scanning my Mac’s SSD, but version 3.0 seems slightly faster and snappier, probably thanks to the new architecture. For the new version, the app has been rewritten with a 64-bit engine (it’s only available for 10.7 and above), support for Retina displays, and compatibility with Thunderbolt disks attached to your Mac. The app still works in the same way: it recognizes your Mac’s built-in hard drive and it scans it, analyzing your storage and presenting files and folders with a peculiar sunburst visualization (read more about it here). We’ve covered the app quite a few times on MacStories over the years, and the basic functionality hasn’t changed, but we missed the 3.0 update released in September and I wanted to fix that.ĭaisyDisk 3 sports a more modern design and a new icon. Developed by a small team, DaisyDisk is a disk analyzer tool that manages to make the boring process of understanding what’s wasting space on your hard drive pretty and almost fun.
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