Useful tools for editors. Part 4
By S Simmons. Filed in Editing, Useful tools for editors |
If you use disk management utilities, and what editor out there doesn’t, I don’t know what would be more handy than Disk Inventory X. It’s not a repair or back-up or diagnostic utility, it’s only for management of files. Just like the name implies, it’s for inventory. Why do I love it so?
As and editor I have lots of drives full of lots of files. Some small. Most huge. Disk Inventory Xs best feature is it’s ability to give you a graphical representation (the “treemap”) of what is on the drive and the size of individual files.
The app’s main window will give you a color coded view of everything on there in the treemap window.
Want to know what that huge file is taking up a quarter of the space? Click on it in the treemap and look at the information window.
See a specific file in the name column and wonder what its size is? Click on it and it will be outlined in yellow in the treemap part of the window. Decide you don’t need that big file anymore and want to reclaim disc space? Just right click the on the file in the treemap, tell it to move to trash (or hit command + delete) and it disappears in a puff of OS X smoke. Want to see a file in the Finder? You can Reveal in Finder of course. You can even click on an entire folder in the Name column and see exactly how much space the folder contents are taking up in the treemap. The legend window on the left of the main window will show the total number of files of a particular kind exist on the drive.
And, if you want to see how much free space is left over, you can enable that too.
There are a number of other things that Disk Inventory X does and I’m sure there are a few more features that I am not aware of as well. I’ve had it crash a time or two upon opening but other than that it seems quite stable. Just look at all the positive feedback at Versiontracker. The best thing about it is … it’s free. But to me, it’s way too useful not to reward the developer a little bit so I’m going pretend it’s shareware and donate in hope that he keeps developing and improving a very fine, very handy little application.
