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OmniDiskSweeper - 1.6

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All Time:	(4.6)
This Version:	(3.0)
Current Version:	1.6
Release Date:	2007-11-20
License:	Update
Downloads (this version):	4,677
Downloads (all versions):	64,097
Price:	$14.95

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Product Description:

OmniDiskSweeper is a great tool for making space on Mac OS X, Mac OS X Server and Mac OS 9 disks.

When you start OmniDiskSweeper, it presents you with a list of disks attached to your machine. You double-click on one, and a new window opens with a browser listing every file and directory on that disk, sorted by size. This is very fast for HFS+ partitions: it takes about seven seconds to process one gigabyte. UFS partitions are significantly slower.

Then you browse through the files and directories, and delete the large ones that you aren't using any more. The free space on the disk and the ordering of the directories are automatically recalculated. If you aren't sure what's in a file, you can double-click it or drag it onto an app on it to open it. It's that simple!

What's new in this version:

Hopefully worked around an issue on 10.5 Leopard which would sometimes cause our normally well-behaved "lsbom" child tasks to turn into zombie processes that would fill up the user's process table, leading to "No more processes" errors in other applications. (We weren't able to reproduce this here, so we can't prove that this fixes the issue. If you were seeing this, please let us know if this fix works!)
Rewrote the package scanner to find all the system packages on 10.5 Leopard.
If we can't find the factory-installed font "Helvetica-Oblique" (which we normally use for linked files), we now fall back on using the system font rather than crashing.
The built-in software update can now automatically download and install its updates.

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

Feedback Summary:

This Version:
Overall Rating:	(3.0)	Features:	(4.0)	Support:	(3.0)
Ease of Use:	(4.0)	Quality / Stability:	(1.0)	Price:	(3.0)

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Does not work with 10.5 - Version: 1.6, 5/9/2008 04:12PM PST

Charles Calthrop

OmniDiskSweeper 1.6 always crashes with 10.5. I am running 10.5.2.

Try WhatSize - Version: 1.6, 11/20/2007 10:00PM PST

Central Scrutinizer--2008

It's free and does the same thing as OmniDiskSweeper. I've been using WhatSize for years and was shocked to find that the OmniGroup is trying to sucker Mac users into paying for the same functionality. Don't know which came first, but I know which I'm sticking with.

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The best! - Version: 1.5, 2/28/2007 01:55AM PST

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lawrencecpaulson_dotmac

I have tried some alternatives, but OmniDiskSweeper is easily the fastest.