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Multilingual version available here (English, Japanese, Spanish, French, Dutch)
DESCRIPTION
GrandPerspective is a small utility application for Mac OS X that graphically shows the disk usage within a file system. It can help you to manage your disk, as you can easily spot which files and folders take up the most space. It uses a so-called tree map for visualisation. Each file is shown as a rectangle with an area proportional to the file's size. Files in the same folder appear together, but their placement is otherwise arbitrary.

WHAT'S NEW
Version 1.0:

New functionality:

  • Added a customizable toolbar, including new controls:
  • Added control for changing the focus (which previously could only be done using the keyboard or scrollwheel).
  • Added new "Open with Finder" action (not to be confused with existing "Reveal in Finder" action).
Minor improvements:
  • Improvements to the appearance of the view window:
  • Moved info about selected item to statusbar.
  • Removed borders around view.
  • Not showing rectangle around outermost item in the selected path unless necessary.
  • Positioning newly opened view windows so they cascade.
  • When creating a derived view window its size matches that of the original window.
  • Sorted the available tests in the "Edit Filter" window by name.
  • Sibling directories are scanned depending on their creation date (oldest first). This deterministic ordering is particularly helpful when scanning an entire TimeMachine backup as hard-linked files will be included in the backup where they first appeared.
  • Made selection automatically stick to end-point when reaching a file after moving selection down a level.
  • When resizing the window the view is still being shown.
  • Added keyboard shortcuts for zooming.
  • Added menu item for visiting the GrandPerspective website.
  • The selection only follows the mouse when the view window has main status.
  • Now also setting hardlink and package status for root of scan tree.
  • Showing an alert when an invalid date value is encountered when loading scan data.
  • Alerts created by a view window are now all shown as sheets of that window.
  • Moved horizontal drawers away from the window's left edge.
  • The initial size of windows and the color gradient for drawing rectangles in the view are now taken from the user defaults.
  • Moved description of file type in Focus panel from separate text field to tooltip of the file type identifier.
Bug fixes:
  • Included workaround for bug #2243134 (crash while scanning NTFS mounted filesystem).
  • Coloring by Level would end up in endless loop for packages at level zero when package contents were hidden. Not anymore.
  • Aborting a drawing task that was just about to complete could result in premature aborting of next task. Not anymore.
  • Closed Edit Mask windows would reappear when the application got activated again after reactivation. They now remain hidden.
Code clean-up:
  • Renamed FileItem -isSpecial to -isPhysical (and inverted meaning)
  • Simplified abortion of background tasks (removed enabled state from TaskExecutor).
  • Moved zoom and focus functionality to DirectoryView.
Updated localizations:
  • Japanese, by Chris Li
  • French, by Maxime Hadjinlian
  • Dutch, by Erwin Bonsma
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.3 or later.


SCREENSHOT

Developer:Erwin Bonsma
Downloads:26,277
  - Version d/l:4,798
Utilities:File Management
License:Free
Date:22 Dec 2008
Platform:PPC/Intel
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GrandPerspective User Reviews (25 posts)Write A Review
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May 4 2009
*****

SECTION8  this program is full of win. A must-have!  
(Version 1.0)

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Jan 7 2009
*****

JDUB800  Excellent program - and has leaped in front of DIX for speed and facilities. Filtering works very well. One missing feature however is there appears to be be no way to delete files/folders directly from the map view. Unless I missed something there?  
(Version 1.0)

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Jan 8 2009

JDUB800  Further to the above, it seems that you CAN delete from the view. Excellent work. A very useful app - 5 stars!  
(Version 1.0)

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Dec 22 2008
*****

JEEPEE  Geweldig programma, werkt prima en zeer eenvoudig! Bedankt!

Great program, works fine and very easy to use! Thanks!  
(Version 1.0)

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Sep 27 2008

TOWERWORKS  This is really neat and useful. I pulled about 15 gig of unused filed from the hard drive in a few minutes of use. This may be the most useful and simple tool available!  
(Version 0.9.13.1)

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Aug 27 2008

DORKYPANTS  Crashes immediately after selecting a directory/folder to scan, on my Tiger (10.4.11) MacBook  
(Version 0.9.13)

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Aug 27 2008

CASLON  Same here.  
(Version 0.9.13)

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Aug 27 2008

ERIBAN  I have hopefully found the cause of the crash, and fixed it in a release candidate that can (temporarily) be found here:

http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/ReleaseCandidates/GrandPerspective-0_9_13_1b1.app.zip

I cannot reproduce the crash myself, so I would be grateful to hear whether or not this version does not crash anymore. If so, I will make it an official release. If not, I will continue my hunt for the bug.  
(Version 0.9.13)

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Aug 27 2008

CASLON  Still crashing.  
(Version 0.9.13)

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Aug 27 2008

SYHARRIS  Crashes immediateley here too on my trusty old 17" Powerbook running OS 10.4.11.

My Grand Perspective 0.9.13 crash log says it's a

Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)

Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE (0x0002) at 0x00000000.

I'd send the developer a copy of my Grand Perspective crash log but I can't locate an email address for him.  
(Version 0.9.13)

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Aug 28 2008

ERIBAN  I am pretty confident that I found the bug that caused the crashes (basically, a silly typo). The fixed application can be (temporarily) found here as a release candidate:

http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/ReleaseCandidates/GrandPerspective-0_9_13_1b2.app.zip

If it doesn't crash anymore on systems where it used to crash (please let me know), then it will be released officially tomorrow.  
(Version 0.9.13)

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Aug 28 2008

SYHARRIS  The fixed version works fine now here.  
(Version 0.9.13)

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Aug 28 2008

CASLON  Fine here. PPC OS 10.4.11  
(Version 0.9.13)

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Jun 11 2008
*****

AYUB  Great app. Find your enemy out of the puzzle and shoot him :D  
(Version 0.9.12)

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Apr 5 2008
*****

FROMEOUT11  Fantastic program for clearing out your hard drive, or finding out what's taking up all of your disk space. Does exactly as described, with no stability issues for me thus far.   
(Version 0.9.11)

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Mar 18 2008
*****

NADEEMF  I find tree maps the absolute best way of representing disk usage, and I think there is no better program to do it on any platform.  
(Version 0.9.11)

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Dec 3 2007

SMACTRON  I really enjoy this program. Could there please be an option, though, for including the Trash?  
(Version 0.99)

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Dec 20 2007

ERIBAN  The next release of GrandPerspective will allow you to directly delete (i.e. move to Trash) files and folders from the application. Not sure though yet when it will be released, but hopefully not too long from now.  
(Version 0.9.10)

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Nov 16 2006

TWEAKLY  i wish someone would do a disk usage thing like the one we had back in the old days, probably sys 4-6, that had a girl whose bare breasts would change size reflecting the amount of free space avail...the more space avail, the larger they were. OK, maybe not PC, but it was a fun icon to have on the tool bar.  
(Version 0.97)

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