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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
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

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Developer:The Omni Group
Downloads:39,430
  - Version d/l:5,307
Utilities:File Management
License:Free
Date:25 Apr 2010
Platform:PPC/Intel

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Apr 27 2010
*****

SPIKEYMIKEY  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)

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Apr 26 2010

HARV  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)

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Apr 26 2010
****.

PENGUIRL  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)

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Aug 11 2009

DON MORRIS  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)

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May 23 2009
*****

THUS.SPAKE.Z  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)

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Nov 20 2008

AKROBAT  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)

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Sep 26 2008

GORDON142  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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Nov 21 2007

SYHARRIS  OmniDiskSweeper works just fine, but I'd say WhatSize is really just as good....and it's free.

Don't know if WhatSize works with Leopard(yet).....I'm still using Tiger.

But give both a spin, and then decide if ODS is worth purchasing.  
(Version 1.6)

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Dec 2 2007

THEC13  WhatSize is officially not free any longer. Still a great program though.  
(Version 1.6)

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Mar 29 2006
***½.

E_COMMERCE  I love the company, but they seriously need to offer more if they expect people to pay for this, given that their competition does the same thing for free. What does it do that WhatSize doesn't? I certainly don't see anything at first or second glance.  
(Version 1.5)

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Apr 9 2006

JKT  It tells you the package (.pkg) source of any application files that use Apple's installer app, but other than that, not a lot.  
(Version 1.5)

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May 14 2008

GXL  The WhatSize is not free anymore so that argument can't be used.  
(Version 1.6)

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Oct 26 2005

ANONYMOUS  Another vote for WhatSize, absolutely free. You can find it at www.id-design.com. Alternatively, Tiger users can create a simple Smart Folder with a few rules to immediately identify the big files ... :-)  
(Version 1.5 beta 1)

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