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What is the best MacOSX nearest alternative?

If you want one with a similarly styled UI, it's DaisyDisk.

Also available on the App Store but the sandbox requirement adds a minor annoyances with allowing it access to your disk.

Personally I find the big grid style visualizations make it easier to actually find large files that I don't need, like what you get with WizTree on Windows, but I'm not sure there's a current Mac option. I think DiskInventoryX is gone, but maybe Grand Perspective is still around?

Grand Perspective is in the app store--wasn't aware of this one, but GP works great.

A minor annoyance with GP is that when you delete a file, it doesn't update the graphics of only the deleted portion (with an option to refresh that folder alone) - you have to rescan the whole disk again to regenerate the view.

I recently wanted to test DaisyDisk but ran into restrictions in the demo version as soon as I tried to drill down on something--I think it was seeing sizes of some restricted system folders?

Dear DaisyDisk developers: sorry, if you don't let me verify that it does what I need it to, I'm not paying.

Disk Inventory X. Don’t let their outdated website fool you, the app works great, even on Big Sur.

Does it understand APFS snapshots? Often, when I clean up space by removing files, my disk usage percentage remains high because snapshots are holding references to the things I’ve deleted. This makes sense, but it’s opaque to most disk analyzers, and I usually don’t remember their existence right away.

I've been developing one that runs on Mac, Windows, and Linux and provides a unique/aesthetic/effective visualization.

It's definitely more for the audience that enjoys sleek, convenient interfaces over tiny files sizes though ;)

(It uses Electron for the UI, Rust for the disk scanner)

https://diskatlas.com/ It's in beta now, so I'd love feedback from anyone who wants to try it.

Personally I just use the Finder.

I go into list view, turn on "calculate all sizes", sort by size, and just go down the list, expanding and collapsing directories with the left and right arrow keys to see what's in them.

Running Diskitude or WizTree in Wine? Or with CMD+J in Finder > Calculate all sizes.

du

Thanks! I almost forgot about that. ncdu is the ncurses version that sorts by size

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