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.
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
THEC13 WhatSize is officially not free any longer. Still a great program though. (Version 1.6)
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Mar 29 2006
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)
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)