OmniDiskSweeper is a program designed for Mac users who wish to monitor and delete files within their internal as well as external drives. You can work with this app to find large files or folders on your drive, delete them if necessary, and retrieve disk space.
After you select the drive you wish to scan, the application will immediately display its files and folders. These results are sorted in descending order by size so you can learn which files use high amounts of disk space.
The app also lets you scan individual folders and external drives and displays their file size info accordingly.
An advantage of OmniDiskSweeper is the fact that it lets you delete files and folders permanently, without sending them to Trash. Another good thing is that it also displays hidden files and lets you remove them with minimum effort.
To conclude, OmniDiskSweeper proves to be a reliable solution when it comes to analyzing and freeing up disk space. The application is very simple to handle, provides you with fast scanning speed, and comes with no price tag whatsoever.
v1.8 [Jul 26, 2012]
- OmniDiskSweeper now requires Mac OS X 10.6.8 or later to run
- OmniDiskSweeper now supports 64-bit environments, and can handle much larger sets of files
- File sizes are now reported using standard metric prefixes (1 kB = 10^3 bytes = 1,000 bytes; 1 MB = 10^6 bytes = 1,000,000 bytes) rather than using binary-based prefixes (1 kB = 2^10 bytes = 1,024 bytes; 1 MB = 2^20 bytes = 1,048,576 bytes)
- OS X 10.7 Lion's automount folders are no longer displayed in the network drive list
- New app icon
- Now signed with Developer ID so it works well with Gatekeeper on OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
- Fixed the crash on launch when running on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
