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Product Description:
GrandPerspective is a small utility application for Mac OS X that graphically shows the disk usage within a file system. It can help you to manage your disk, as you can easily spot which files and folders take up the most space. It uses a so called tree map for visualisation. Each file is shown as a rectangle with an area proportional to the file's size. Files in the same folder appear together, but their placement is otherwise arbitrary.
What's new in this version:
New functionality:
- Added a customizable toolbar, including new controls:
- Added control for changing the focus.
- Added new "Open with Finder" action.
- Improvements to the appearance of the view window:
- Moved info about selected item to statusbar.
- Removed borders around view.
- Not showing rectangle around outermost item in the selected path unless necessary.
- Positioning newly opened view windows so they cascade.
- When creating a derived view window its size matches that of the original window.
- Sorted the available tests in the "Edit Filter" window by name.
- Sibling directories are scanned depending on their creation date (oldest first).
- Made selection automatically stick to end-point when reaching a file after moving selection down a level.
- When resizing the window the view is still being shown.
- Added keyboard shortcuts for zooming.
- Added menu item for visiting the GrandPerspective website.
- The selection only follows the mouse when the view window has main status.
- Now also setting hardlink and package status for root of scan tree.
- Showing an alert when an invalid date value is encountered when loading scan data.
- Alerts created by a view window are now all shown as sheets of that window.
- Moved horizontal drawers away from the window's left edge.
- The initial size of windows and the color gradient for drawing rectangles in the view are now taken from the user defaults.
- Moved description of file type in Focus panel from separate text field to tooltip of the file type identifier.
- Included workaround for bug #2243134 (crash while scanning NTFS mounted filesystem).
- Coloring by Level would end up in endless loop for packages at level zero when package contents were hidden. Not anymore.
- Aborting a drawing task that was just about to complete could result in premature aborting of next task. Not anymore.
- Closed Edit Mask windows would reappear when the application got activated again after reactivation. They now remain hidden.
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.3.9
- Mac OS X 10.3
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Download GrandPerspective Version 1.0 (File Size: 437k)
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Download GrandPerspective Current Version (File Size: 670k)
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Feedback Summary:
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| Overall Rating: |   (4.0) |
Features: | (4.0) |
Support: | (3.0) |
| Ease of Use: | (4.0) |
Quality / Stability: | (5.0) |
Price: | (5.0) |
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Just keeps getting better - Version: 1.1.0, 9/27/2009 01:00AM PST
rayjay
This is one of those rare programs that is not just useful but is a real pleasure to use - I certainly second Foobar1969's comment about its artistic merits. And each upgrade adds another worthwhile bit of functionality. Thanks for a great utility.
graphical utility that makes your clutter look like art - Version: 1.0, 2/20/2009 07:44AM PST
(1 of 1 users found this comment useful)
Foobar1969
It takes a few minutes of mousing around the map to understand how this program displays things, but it makes sense after that and helps you sort your HD. Also the results look like avant garde art.
Nice replacement for Disk Inventory X - Version: 0.9.12.1, 6/16/2008 08:01AM PST
(3 of 3 users found this comment useful)
Mike Dustan
I used Disk Inventory X for years to do exactly what this application does. I figured it would only be a matter of time before DIX broke with the latest OS, since it appears to be no longer in development. To DIX's credit it has worked flawlessly with every system from Jaguar to Leopard. GrandPerspective appears to be a worthy successor, with a few more useful features and a chance that user feedback and requests may actually make into the application.
Nice work!
Nice work!
