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However, be aware that there is a rather serious interface bug in Table View: If you select a file in the list, then Control/right-click on a different file in the list to delete it via the contextual menu, the selected file, not the one you’re clicking on, will be deleted. (Note that for some reason, Table View’s window is called FlatView.) By Control/right-clicking on a file in Table View, you can move it to the Trash or reveal it in the Finder. This feature makes it much easier to find offending space-wasters, because you don’t have to manually search each folder on your drive. Available from the Tools menu, Table View lets you filter your results, displaying, for example, files and folders-or just file or just folders-anywhere on the drive larger than 1GB. WhatSize also lets you examine the contents of just a particular folder-instead of an entire drive-by clicking the Folder button in the toolbar click the Home button to examine just your Home directory.īut my favorite option is Table View. If you find a huge file that you want to delete, simply select it and click the Delete button in the WhatSize toolbar. Through this process, you can quickly see which files and folders are occupying the most space on your drive. (A list view option is also available.) As you do, the contents of each folder are, again, displayed in descending order of size. When run as root, the application can access and size this and other locations on the drive.You can then browse those files and folders just as you’d navigate them in the Finder’s column view. Compare the Spotlight Database size to the previous screenshot. OmniDiskSweeper run as root using Terminal. Spotlight-V100 folder now shows over 800MB of content where before it appeared empty.

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Once an administrative password is entered, the application will launch and allow you to scan the drive for all files. Assuming you have OmniDiskSweeper installed in your main Applications folder, that command is: sudo /Applications/OmniDiskSweeper.app/Contents/MacOS/OmniDiskSweeper As with all sudo commands, triple-check the syntax before executing it (or simply copy/paste from here) as it is possible to cause irreversible damage to the OS and file system if the wrong command is entered.

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To give OmniDiskSweeper full access to all files on your drive, you must run the application from the Terminal using the sudo command, which stands for “Super User Do” and gives access to all files on a user’s drive.

Since few people ever run as a fully priviledged “root” user, this means you’re almost always going to miss something, including system-level files or files and folders belonging to other user accounts on that Mac. When run normally, as above, Joe noted that OmniDiskSweeper only shows files that are visible to the user that ran it. Note also the size of the Spotlight Database as 0 bytes. It shows that the user’s Documents folder is the largest folder on the drive. OmniDiskSweeper run from the Applications folder. Thankfully he also found a solution which he shared with us and we now share with you.

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This allows a user to easily find the largest files on a drive and is great for clearing up free space (such as when preparing to migrate to a smaller solid state drive). However, in Mac Geek Gab 355, listener Joe found that it doesn’t always show everything. OmniDiskSweeper scans the files and folders of your Mac’s hard drive and displays a list, in order of file size, of the contents of your drive. Long time Mac Geek Gab listeners know that using OmniDiskSweeper is a fantastic (free!) way to find out what files are taking up all your precious hard drive or SSD space.