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From: chris on 14 May 2010 06:44 On Thu, 13 May 2010 17:28:09 +0100, Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > On Thu, 13 May 2010 15:43:05 +0100, chris <ithinkiam(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, 13 May 2010 14:51:45 +0100, zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote: >>> Both can be used for both tasks but each has one task it's better at. I >>> quite often run both at the same time when having a clearout. >>> >> >> I just did this kind of thing as I was down to my last 10Gb of free >> space >> :( >> >> I used Disk Inventory X, which a nice graphical representation of what's >> hogging the space :) > > That's very similar to GrandPerspective. > > Just did this on the Air, which was down to 8gig free. Turned out most > of the space used - 27gig! - was a temp file that VMware had made > while converting a hard drive image, and not deleted due to me killing > it (for good reasons). Whoops. Same here. The biggest hogs were my VBox hard disks (32Gb in total). This really pales in significance to the other week where I accidentally created a 1.2Tb log file on our cluster! Fortunately, I spotted it before the sysadmins ;)
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 14 May 2010 06:45 On Fri, 14 May 2010 11:44:01 +0100, chris <ithinkiam(a)gmail.com> wrote: >On Thu, 13 May 2010 17:28:09 +0100, Jaimie Vandenbergh ><jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > >> On Thu, 13 May 2010 15:43:05 +0100, chris <ithinkiam(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 13 May 2010 14:51:45 +0100, zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote: >>>> Both can be used for both tasks but each has one task it's better at. I >>>> quite often run both at the same time when having a clearout. >>>> >>> >>> I just did this kind of thing as I was down to my last 10Gb of free >>> space >>> :( >>> >>> I used Disk Inventory X, which a nice graphical representation of what's >>> hogging the space :) >> >> That's very similar to GrandPerspective. >> >> Just did this on the Air, which was down to 8gig free. Turned out most >> of the space used - 27gig! - was a temp file that VMware had made >> while converting a hard drive image, and not deleted due to me killing >> it (for good reasons). Whoops. > >Same here. The biggest hogs were my VBox hard disks (32Gb in total). The annoying thing is that the actual hard drive file is only 12gig... still, my fault. >This really pales in significance to the other week where I accidentally >created a 1.2Tb log file on our cluster! Fortunately, I spotted it before >the sysadmins ;) Hee! Well done, for both before and after! Cheers - Jaimie -- That's what I remembered, too, but Google told me differently. And I am a slave to Google. Ia! Ia! I'm feeling lucky fthagn! -- Wim Lewis, rasfw
From: Rowland McDonnell on 14 May 2010 09:05 chris <ithinkiam(a)gmail.com> wrote: > http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2010/05/13/ten_essential_freeware_mac_apps/ > > I hadn't heard of most of them... .... and I reckon that The Unarchiver beats Stuffit Expander these days. Stuffit lost the plot sometime around v5, IIRC. Rowland. (who used to keep Stuffit Expander v4.5 hanging around 'cos it could decode things that no later version of Stuffit Expander failed on) -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Rowland McDonnell on 14 May 2010 09:05 Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk (Woody) wrote: > > >chris <ithinkiam(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2010/05/13/ten_essential_freeware_mac_apps/ > >> > >> I hadn't heard of most of them... > > > >I have all of them apart from burn and a newer version of stuffit (which > >hasn't been that useful in years). > > Always hated Stuffit, back from Classic. Stuffit was brilliant all the way up to v4, which was showing signs of iffiness but did more than v3. Then v5 came out and it was clear that Aladdin had caught Microsoft disease. [snip] Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Conor on 14 May 2010 09:48
On 13/05/2010 13:44, chris wrote: > > http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2010/05/13/ten_essential_freeware_mac_apps/ > > I hadn't heard of most of them... I'd heard of most as they have Windows versions however Monolingual was something I'd been looking for as I've used a similar app in Linux. Monolingual stripped out 1.9GB of never to be used language files. -- Conor I'm not prejudiced. I hate everyone equally. |