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OmniDiskSweeper 1.7.2

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OmniDiskSweeper is a utility for quickly finding and deleting big, useless files and thus making space on your hard disks. It makes this easy by highlighting the biggest files on your disks, and by noting which files are used by the system, so you don't accidentally delete important files.

What's New

Version 1.7.2: Release notes were unavailable when this listing was updated.

Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

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OmniDiskSweeper User Discussion (Write a Review)

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apetts reviewed on 05 Jul 2011

Been using this app for a long time and loved it. However ever since my company forced me to use file vault on my macbook pro, it stopped working. Will it ever be updated again?

[Version 1.7.2]

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+221

Bigboysdad replied on 31 Jul 2011

Well, Omnidisk apparently hasn't been updated on Lion and keeps freezing/ not responding when I try to delete some cache files under the new operating system. So it looks like this is on the way out. Shame, as this was a simple, effective piece of Mac software.

+61

M.Luther replied on 29 Sep 2011

@Bigboysdad According to http://roaringapps.com/apps:table/tags/_o/index_tags/_o, OmniDiskSweeper works well with 10.7.

+221

Bigboysdad replied on 12 Nov 2011

Thanks, M.Luther, I did give it another go and it works ok most of the time, but before reading your post I looked around for alternatives and settled on Diskwave and DaisyDisk which may be overkill for some, but provides everything you need if you have to keep emptying out your HD.

+10

Almostwise reviewed on 08 Dec 2010

I love this ap! Quickly helps me find what is hogging my disk space, and for free, it can't be beat! Just be careful when you hit the "destroy" button in the ap, make sure you want it gone...

[Version 1.7.2]

+221

Bigboysdad reviewed on 18 Sep 2010

I've got the more powerful application Baseline, but still use this for a quick clean up of those unecessary files which take up the hard drive space, ie, those Lightroom cache files. You're going to be struggling for space in this digital age if you have a 160G hard drive and will need this app to keep it trim.

[Version 1.7.2]

Spikeymikey reviewed on 27 Apr 2010

Just found this app today - and have trashed 10 gig of rubbish. Great app to quickly finding stuff that you don't need anymore or can happily move off to an external drive. Much prefer the simple text view rather than a fancy graphic representation. Easy to understand and, quite quick on my 2006 core duo MacBook Pro - worth having for those moments of fast de-cluttering.

[Version 1.7.2]

+219

Harv commented on 26 Apr 2010

From Omni's web site, this release (only): "Updated the French help localization".

I suppose most won't need this, but I installed it anyway because ya just never know what other nits/fixes are included.

FWIW, I noticed no changes. It just works as it always had. Merci beaucoup.

[Version 1.7.2]

+337

Penguirl reviewed on 26 Apr 2010

OmniDiskSweeper is still the most functional disk sizer for my needs. The text display is far more useful to me than the admittedly prettier graphical displays and the built in delete function is a must have. The only thing I can think of that would make it more useful for me would be a list of drives and top level folders on the left similar to the Finder display.

[Version 1.7.2]

+23

Don Morris commented on 11 Aug 2009

If you simply need to know what's taking up space on your disk, and you don't need a fancy chart to display it, OmniDiskSweeper is the app to use. It's free, Leopard and Intel compatible, and reasonably quick.

[Version 1.7]

+297

thus.spake.z reviewed on 23 May 2009

Works just fine on my late '08 Macbook Pro core 2 duo. OmniDisksweeper does the job quite well and is now free. Go for it; it's a no brainer. I bought it several years ago and have used it many times without issues.

[Version 1.7]

+22

akrobat commented on 20 Nov 2008

Used to be a good app. But now virtually unusable as it constantly crashes on my Intel Macbook.
Ok on my PPC.

[Version 1.6.1b2]

+155

Gordon142 commented on 26 Sep 2008

Well, WhatSize has a nicer interface, but DiskSweeper lets you use basically all its functions without registering, which means its still my tool of choice. Honestly, $7 is about the upper limit for an application of this type, I think, but everyone wants more…

[Version 1.6.1b1]

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