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Real Name:Alexandre Ackermans

Last Login:13 Dec 2008 17:42

Posts:4

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Aperture to Picasa Web Albums	Dec 5 2009	ALEXANDRE ACKERMANS You do not need to export first if you use picasa web albums uploader - you can drag and drop photos directly from aperture. Auto creation of numbered albums to overrule the 1000 limit per album would be a nice feature of this software. (Version 1.4.3)		0
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Drive Genius	Jul 30 2009	ALEXANDRE ACKERMANS Ditto for corrupted disk after optimizing with drive genius on macbook Pro os x 10 5 6 I used it succesfully twice in the past, but after such a bad experience, I am extremely wary to try it again. Unfortunately the lost time+work on that problem will never be made up by any speed gains due to a succesful optimization. To optimize, the most efficient and free techinque seems to boot from an external CD, create a disk image copy to an external drive, reformat and recover the disk image. This will copy all files as a contiguous, defragged block. No hassle no backup on the fly defrag seems too risky to try. (Version 2.2)		0
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gDisk	Jan 22 2009	ALEXANDRE ACKERMANS You can use dropbox to replace this. 2gb free, seamless integration, history of your files (Version 0.6.1)		+1
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WhatSize	Dec 13 2008	ALEXANDRE ACKERMANS Totally overpriced especially since the free Grandperspective application gives a faster, and visually better information about your files. (Version 4.4.1)		-1
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WhatSize

Jan 8 2009

ERICHLUTZ dont agree, grandperspective is a toy versus whatsize
(Version 4.4.1)

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WhatSize

Mar 4 2009

MIKELAMBRELLIS Agreed. The visual perspective makes it far easier to see the relative proportions of files and directories versus the total disk size. Scanning is very fast and the latest version provides zooming and other features.

For a command line report similar to the GUI output of WhatSize, you can type in the following in terminal:

f=/tmp/~sort.tmp;du -hs *>$f;for s in P T G M K B; do cat $f|grep "^..."$s|sort -nr;done

(all of that should be on one line)
(Version 4.4.2)

WhatSize

Mar 4 2009

MIKELAMBRELLIS What I meant to say was I agree with Alexandre - GrandPerspective is better.
(Version 4.4.2)

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