{"id":17116,"date":"2017-02-03T16:11:06","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T21:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=17116"},"modified":"2017-02-03T16:11:06","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T21:11:06","slug":"in-praise-of-omnidisksweeper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/03\/in-praise-of-omnidisksweeper\/","title":{"rendered":"In Praise of OmniDiskSweeper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/robservatory.com\/macos-app-omnidisksweeper\/\">Rob Griffiths<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/robservatory.com\/macos-app-omnidisksweeper\/\">\n<p>I&rsquo;ve tried a bunch of these tools over the years, both graphical and text-based, but I still keep coming back to an oldie-but-goodie&mdash;and it&rsquo;s free: Omni&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omnigroup.com\/more\">OmniDiskSweeper<\/a> has everything I want in a disk space usage tool. It&rsquo;s got an intuitive interface, and a way to either delete what I find or open the containing folder to take a closer look.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it&rsquo;s because I&rsquo;m a column-view Finder kind of person, but I love the columnar drill-down layout that OmniDiskSweeper uses.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I keep coming back to it, too, because I like the interface. The biggest flaw is that there&rsquo;s no built-in way to count files that the current user doesn&rsquo;t have access to. However, you can use Terminal to run it under <tt>sudo<\/tt>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Griffiths: I&rsquo;ve tried a bunch of these tools over the years, both graphical and text-based, but I still keep coming back to an oldie-but-goodie&mdash;and it&rsquo;s free: Omni&rsquo;s OmniDiskSweeper has everything I want in a disk space usage tool. It&rsquo;s got an intuitive interface, and a way to either delete what I find or open [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30,32,1381,1474],"class_list":["post-17116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macos-10-12","tag-omnidisksweeper"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17117,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17116\/revisions\/17117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}