GrandPerspective 3.4.2
Graphically shows disk usage within a file system
| Category: | Utilities |
| Price: | Low |
| Popularity: | High |
| Version String: | 3.4.2 |
| Release Date: | 2023-07-24 |
| Architecture: | Intel & AppleSilicon(ARM) |
| Minimum OS: | macOS 11.0 |
| Vendor Name: | Erwin Bonsma |
| Homepage: | grandperspectiv.sourceforge.io |
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Version History 3.4.2
Main changes:
• Faster scanning
• Configurable Display Focus
• Revamped toolbar
Minor improvements:
• Minor updates to help documentation
• Revised various default preference settings
• Sort palettes in Display panel pop-up by palette size
Fixes:
• Fixed: Can select default filter when none is configured
• Fixed: Do not animate zoom when showing entire volume
• Fixed: Tree refresh adds empty directories to tree
• Fixed: Tree monitor cannot update flags during save of scan data
• Fixed: Refreshed trees contain invalid parent pointers
• Fixed: Can highlight files inside packages when package contents are hidden
Description:
GrandPerspective is a small utility application 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.
FEATURES
- Disk usage is visualised using tree maps. Each file is shown as a rectangle with an area proportional to the file's size. Files in the same folder appear together.
- Configurable display of views:
◦ Choice of color mapping schemes. Color files by their: name, extension, file type, parent folder, top folder, level in the folder hierarchy, creation time, modification time, or last access time
◦ Choice of color palettes
◦ Configurable mapping by file type
◦ Optionally view package contents
◦ Optionally view the entire volume
- Convenient navigation of views:
◦ Traverse up and down the folder hierarchy
◦ Select files and folders in the view
- Open files with Finder
- Reveal files and folders in Finder
- Preview files and folders using Quick Look
- Delete files and folders from the view
- Filter files and folders:
◦ Construct filter tests based an item's name, path, size, file type, hard-link status, and package status
◦ Use these filters to: Mask files in the view, filter files from the view and exclude files and folders when scanning a disk
- Filters and filter tests are automatically stored in the user preferences
- Multiple view support:
◦ Re-scan a view to compare results before and after clean-up
◦ Twin or duplicate a view for different displays of the same data
- Support for hard-linked files and folders:
◦ Analyse Time Machine back-ups
- Save results of disk scanning operations:
◦ Reload and view again at any time
- Export scan results:
◦ As image or as text
- Configurable user preferences
- Snappy and responsive GUI:
◦ Optimized drawing of views
◦ Drawing and scanning are carried out in background threads
- Small memory and disk footprint
- Fully internationalized:
◦ Up-to-date localizations available in English, Chinese, German, Turkish, Portuguese and Dutch
◦ Outdated localizations available in Japanese, Spanish and French
