As with all our guides, and Mac ownership in general, it’s best to make sure you have a complete backup before you start deleting things, to insulate yourself from any accidental deletions. It’s time to recover some space on your drive with a few relatively simple maintenance activities. So here we are yet again with our storage filling up. iPhone 4K videos can easily be multiple gigabytes in size, and we’re all storing more photos than we were seven years ago. Of course, as SSD capacity has increased, so has the amount of data many of us are storing. Now most people can afford the storage they need in Apple’s base models, and those with the means and the need can go as far as dropping an extra $2,200 to upgrade their 16″ MacBook Pro to a previously unimaginable 8TB of storage. In is nascent years, abundant flash storage was prohibitively expensive. Since this post was first written in 2013, solid-state storage has become ubiquitous in all of Apple’s laptops and a relatively affordable option in their iMacs. Let's take a look at one more application that might be more user-friendly.This post was originally written in 2013, it’s updated here to reflect new apps, new settings and services. GrandPerspective is an extremely powerful tool, but it may overwhelm some beginner users. As you can see in my above screenshot, the rectangles can become so small that its hard to select individual files, particularly for drives packed full of files.
GrandPerspective also helps to visualize your storage by keeping together the files that are in the same folder. The size of these rectangles are proportional to the size of the file represented, so it’s easy to identify the largest files.
Clicking a file displays information about it, and then you can delete it or open it up in Finder to manage it further. The size of these rectangles are proportional to the size of the file represented, so it's easy to identify the largest files. Hovering over a file displays the path and size of that file or directory.Īfter the program has built a chart of your chosen folder or drive, your storage is divided up into rectangles.
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