macOS Disk Usage Analysis

I always seem to be running out of storage space on my MacBook.

I found the default storage analysis tools provided by Apple to be rather underwhelming and basic in comparison to my experience using Ubuntu Linux.

I felt that Baobab and GParted were much more powerful tools.

Unfortunately, GParted is not available for macOS.

underwhelming OSX default disk usage analysis tool

The solution with a GUI that I found to be useful is a program called Disk Inventory X.

It is open source, as described here:

It is absolutely free and released under the GPL. The layout algorithm is based on KDirStat. The idea to develop this program came to me when a fellow of mine showed me his creation WinDirStat.\

It can be downloaded here:

https://derlien.com/downloads/index.html

And code viewed here:

https://gitlab.com/tderlien/disk-inventory-x

Thank you for this software, Tjark Derlien.