JDiskReport 1.3.0 requires Java Mac OS X 10. And despite its OS-X-like windows, JDiskReport still has elements-for example, ugly toolbar buttons and contextual menus-that expose its Java roots. In my testing, JDiskReport used quite a bit of memory and was slower than WhatSize, and it unexpectedly quit once. Finally, JDiskReport is written in Java although this means it’s completely cross-platform, it also means it works as well as most Java apps-which is to say not as well as native Mac OS X applications. Also, unlike WhatSize, JDiskReport doesn’t scan files in other users’ home directories unless you launch JDiskReport with root privileges (for example, by using a utility such as Similarly, you can’t delete a file or folder from within JDiskReport, or even reveal that item in the Finder you have to manually navigate to the file in the Finder. I mentioned above the inability to view which files are included in particular categories. In any view, right-clicking (or Control-clicking) gives you the option to copy the current chart or table data, in tab-delimited format, to the clipboard for pasting in a spreadsheet or other document.Īlthough I like JDiskReport’s many options, it does have a number of limitations. aif files are taking up 2GB of space in your home directory, it would be useful to be able to view a list of those files to decide if there are any you can get rid of. But, again, there’s no way to directly access any of those files for example, if you see that. Finally, Types shows a breakdown of files by file type. Modified displays the proportion of spaced used by the current folder due to files modified today, yesterday, 1 to 7 days ago, and so on, all the way to “Over 10 years.” Unfortunately, this view isn’t as useful as it could be, because there’s no way to figure out which files belong in which category-so, for example, you can’t easily get rid of those 10-year-old files. Size Dist displays-using whatever view option you’ve chosen (pie chart, bar chart, or table)-the size distribution of files in the current folder in other words, what proportion of space used is from files larger than 1GB, between 256MB and 1GB, and so on, all the way down to less-than-1KB. Top 50 displays a list of the 50 largest files in the current folder or, alternatively, the 50 most-recently- or least-recently-modified files. The table view is also useful, as it lets you see a WhatSize-like list of files in a particular folder, sorted by size or number of enclosed files.Īnother useful set of options can be accessed via buttons just above the report area. Although I don’t find the expanded pie chart to be very readable, I like the bar chart view, both because it provides a sorted-by-size graphical view of each folder, and because it includes many smaller items omitted-for the purposes of easier reading-from the pie chart.
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